This page provides information about the Proxy Mesh in V-Ray for Grasshopper.
Overview
Loads a V-Ray Proxy file (.vrmesh). Alembic (.abc) files are also supported. The V-Ray Geometry output can be connected to a Renderer component. A list of Plane or Scale factor inputs will generate multiple instances of the same Proxy.
The number of instances indicates how many times the object is currently being instanced.
Each instance of the V-Ray Proxy Importer has a preview in the Rhino viewport. The component can be represented as an autogenerated simplified mesh, whole mesh, a bounding box or a point.
Input Parameters
File Path (Text) – Specifies the path to the proxy (.vrmesh) file. Invalid input file paths are auto-resolved as long as the files reside at the same location as the .gh project file.
Plane (Plane) – Plane transformation for the Proxy. A list of Plane inputs adds multiple instances of the same Proxy.
Scale (Number) – Scale factor for the Proxy. A value of 1.0 is used by default. Multiple Scale factors can be used.
Mtl (Generic Data) – V-Ray Material input is expected. The number of required materials for each unique .vrmesh file is not automatically determined.
Visible (Boolean) – Controls the geometry visibility.
Output Parameters
V Geo (Generic Data) – V-Ray Geometry output.
Context Menu
Preview – Specifies the viewport preview mode. This does not affect the final render.
Proxy Preview – Portions of the mesh are previewed in the viewport with some faces hidden.
Whole Mesh – The entire mesh is previewed in the viewport.
Bounding Box – Previews are shown as bounding boxes.
Point – Previews the mesh with its own point of origin.
Examples
A .vrmesh file containing a tree model imported in Grasshopper and rendered in Rhino. The materials are manually slotted using V-Ray Material from Project components.
