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title: "Utility Textures"
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This section contains details about Utility Textures found in V-Ray for SketchUp

## **Overview**

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Utility Textures allow users to perform a variety of helpful functions on texture maps inside a scene (such as compositing textures together and value conversions), as well as provide color corrections option.

A Utility Texture can be replaced with another Utility Texture or any other type of V-Ray texture via the **Replace With New Texture** (> Macro (inline-media-image)

) button, which activates when you select the texture to be replaced. If the texture is an instance, all copies are changed as well.

> ℹ️ In V-Ray 7, the Simple Mix, Mix (Value), Mix (Operator) and Mix (Map) textures are no longer available. They are replaced by the Layered texture.