Lights

This page provides information on the types of V-Ray Lights.

Overview

V-Ray for SketchUp offers a number of lights essential for a good render. Whether you are preparing an interior or exterior scene, you can find the appropriate lighting options in the V-Ray toolbar or in the Asset Editor.

Depending on the scene and the effect you are trying to create with light, you might choose to use only one type of light or any combination of lights.

Below you can find detailed information on creation, application, and UI functionalities of the different V-Ray lights.

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UI Paths

||V-Ray Asset Editor|| > Lights (right-click)

||V-Ray Asset Editor|| > Create Asset (left-click) > Lights

||V-Ray Lights Toolbar|| > V-Ray Lights

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||Extensions|| > V-Ray > Lights

Light Types

Notes

• When exporting a project from SketchUp to LayOut, you might want to hide the V-Ray objects (proxies, lights, fur, clipper, and infinite plane) exposed in the viewport. This is possible by using Hide V-Ray Widgets button in V-Ray toolbar.
• Negative intensity values are not allowed for any of the lights.
• The context options of the Color Slot allow to Copy and Paste a color from one color slot to another, as well as to Reset the color selection to a default value.
• You can reset the Input Number Slider's value to its default value by right-clicking on the slider and selecting the Reset context menu option.
• Most numeric V-Ray parameters come with a slider to make fine-tuning easier. Each slider is set to a default range of recommended or commonly used values. If a value above that range is used the slider adapts by increasing its range accordingly (2x the input value) to maintain usability. If a value below the current slider range is used, the slider again adjusts its range by shrinking it to twice the amount of the input value.
• The slider range does not indicate the parameter's total minimum and maximum input values. The absolute minimum and maximum values of each parameter can be found by hovering over its spinbox.
• The Select Objects in Scene option allows selection and multi-selection of components and groups in the viewport.