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Thank You for the suggestion. Yes, high-rez video tutorial would be optimal. I will record a short one when I have some time. For now I have written a comment on how to start with these materials.

I agree there is a lack of material about V-Ray in Blender. And I am aware that there is a big need for information in this subject. The best place to go is V-Ray for Blender Forum on Chaos Group site. The whole forum of Blender to V-Ray exporter developer – Andrei Izrantsev (aka bdancer) has been moved there when he was hired by Chaos Group. Since then, information, assets and support can be found there.

Also a detailed 3-part course of VRay/Blender can be found on cmiVFX. It has been a while since I purchased it (3 years or so) but most information is still valid. It teaches how to use Blender to V-Ray exporter, and also how to optimize render settings which is not just Blender related, but applies to all 3D apps with V-Ray.

The simplest way to use these materials is to link them to your scene. In order to do that: with your scene open Click File > Append [Shift+F1] > navigate to file with material > get into the file > into Materials > select desired material and click Link/Append. Assign material to objects.

For materials with textures You may need to copy folder “textures” to the same folder your file is or gather/pack textures using commands under: File>External Data.

I hope this helps, but if You have any problems feel free to ask.

Also, I remember, there can be one more problem with some materials using UV maps for texture mapping. You need to pay attention to UV map layer. Sometimes you need to change the mapping in the texture panel to appropriate map.