To start off, let’s add a sphere light to your model. Now, let’s take a look at some different lighting options. You’ll note that you still get some exterior lighting from your background image, which you can adjust within your settings section. To start off, turn the sunlight off within your lighting section of your Vray asset editor. You’ve basically got a few different options for lighting your interior models with artificial lights – this is assuming that you don’t want to light your model with the environment lighting in Vray (sunlight and background lights). Let’s leave all other parameters as is.In this Vray and SketchUp tutorial, learn about the different kinds of artificial lights you can use to light your interior renders! Learn to use sphere lights, spotlights, emissive materials, and more to create realistic lighting in your interior models!

Lets set Refraction color white while keeping a mutual IOR value between Refraction and Reflection. Similarly, refraction affects the visual refraction of your material. if you want to get into more specific details about IOR values, be sure to reference a proper table. Let’s keep the IOR value as is (Glass IOR usually between 1.4 to 2.0) so default parameters work well for this exercise. IOR or index of refraction affects how light refracts as it passes through an object. Most material with reflection follows the fresnel rule, so It’s important to keep the Fresnel option checked that way your reflection is base on the angle of view. Using a color here can actually tint your reflection in an artificial way and result in a unique look.Ĭheck the Fresnel option. Lets set reflection color to white to ensure the reflection is completely visible.

White color (255, 255, 255) means 100% reflective like a mirror and Black (0,0,0) means no reflection.

Reflection affects the visual reflectivity of your material. Lets set Diffuse Color to Black as its commonly used when creating glass materials. Create a new Generic Material (Vray BRDF), Give it an appropriate and let’s apply to our glass panel.ĭiffuse Color effects the color of the surface, this parameter is also affected by reflection and refraction.

Vray sketchup light settings