There’s this website that I’ve stumbled upon while looking for material images, called Texture Haven. This looks very confusing, I know! But this is way easier than you think 🙂 Displacement Map: this map in particular is very important if your material is rough or needs to look and act like a 3D object (stone wall, stone floor, rattan, etc.).Bump Map: if the material you have in mind has a visible “texture” to it (not smooth like glass), then you’ll need this too.Reflection Map: not all materials reflect light the same way (if at all), so having this map will make sure the render engine reflects the light hitting this material realistically.

High Quality Diffuse Map: this is what your material will look like.

In order to create realistic VRay materials you need a few things: This is where you will have to create your own material to match your model, and you need to know exactly how to do so the right way so you don’t mess up your model or final render.

VRay 3.4 comes with a good material library that has a few good materials tha are necessary to make a model come to life.īut not all materials are requested in a custom design, you may find yourself limited if you only use that selection of materials in designs for your clients and your clients may ask for specific patterns or color options that you can’t find in the VRay Material Library or even online in ready packed materials (*.vismat). It can export directly to UE4 tough.Disclaimer: This post is not sponsored I’ve chosen to promote Texture Haven & HDRI Haven because of their amazing quality downloads and the fact that these downloads are FREE with no attribution required. Ah and making materials on Substance designer is also a dream, that's soooo much faster and intuitive, but sadly can't export directly to Vray. There's another forum were this can come from but it's a closed forum and I don't remember the name, I was able to contact some people from inside this forum but they said there's no release there either! Sincerely I'm taking this as the incentive I needed to finally learn UE4 and then forget about all conventional renderers, I mean everyone should do that, you only need a decent graphics card and you can have instantaneous rendering of your work isn't that a dream? But hey, it's actually possible! I mean you still have to wait for the lightmap to build up but you also need to wait for it on Vray so. No point in asking them best that can happen is they'll only ignore your plead. People on forums like GFX Domain for example, but the 3 persons I can think of that could possibly crack Vray 3 for sketchup on GFX doesn't seem to be working on it, some of these same users are posting the versions for maya and 3dsMax but nothing about sketchup version unfortunately.

Vray 3.4 for sketchup 2017