Plugin for 2 different materials on faces?

[joanne]

Does anyone know of a plugin that allows you to have two different modes of materials? For example, I’d like to apply a wood material to a floor for renderings, but then in LayOut, I would like that wood to appear as a black and white wood texture pattern. So I’d like to be able to toggle between the modes for different scene setups. It seems like a simple enough thing to make a plugin for?

[mihai.s]

@joanne

wood material to a floor for renderings

If you render with V-Ray, use Bind for material

V-Ray Workflow Integration

Custom Binding is your friend. You can set a custom binding type to show in sketchup that is different to what is rendered in VRay. You do need to be able to locate the Sketchup textures on your machine, so have a little SU material library ready. I have set up a small standard library of hatches that I use, or if I wish to use a flat colour I just set that as ‘Colour’ rather than ‘Bitmap’ in the Binding Texture slot of the VRay material. You then have complete control over what SketchUp ‘s…