I am writing another IES lighting tutorial again showing the basic steps in using V-Ray for SketchUp 1.48.90 and future releases. Includes an help system built inside the app with many contextual information buttons and interactive guides.Basic IES Light Tutorial using V-Ray for SketchUp.Full sRGB support for the Base Color, Difuse and Specular maps, and linear space support for other maps. All map editing is done at 16-bit precision, with some tools working at floating point.Includes the previous version’s automatic tiling features with easy-to-use synchronized tiling of multiple maps.Fast GPU acceleration available in most tools. New Map Tools system with an intuitive interface and powerful capabilities.

Diffuse+Specular Workflow uses Blinn-Phong rendering.PBR Metallic-Roughness uses common GGX rendering, while Traditional Improved 3D Preview rendering with HDRI environment lighting.Support for the Physically Based Rendering (PBR) Workflow, while maintaining support for the previous Traditional (Diffuse-Specular) 3D Workflow.In fact so many things are new, that the version number has jumped from 3 to 5: The 5th major version of PixPlant includes many improvements. Also includes an Adobe Photoshop plug-in. Edit maps in external editors at a click of a button.Integrated tutorial system, for step-by-step interactive learning.Also supports the Traditional Diffuse-Specular 3D workflow from previous versions. 3D Preview area with PBR rendering, HDRI, displacement and parallax mapping.A variety of tools for 3D material extraction and for map editing at pixel and whole-surface level.

Quickly transform photos into PBR materials and automatically create seamless tiling maps.

Pixplant tutorial