V-Ray 5.2 for SketchUp is officially available for download now and now contains scatter, Chaos Vantage Live Link, Cosmos materials, decals and several improvements to V-Ray Vision.
What's New
- Scatter — Add hundreds of objects on any surface in an intuitive and memory-efficient way. Users can disperse multiple objects simultaneously and control their size, orientation, and density for maximum realism.
- Chaos Vantage Live Link — The most complex scenes can now be explored in pure ray traced real-time with zero setup. Users can navigate and interact with the model’s true lighting and materials, and create animations and images with ease. An NVIDIA® RTX card is required to make the most of Vantage.
- Chaos Cosmos materials — Chaos' collection of render-ready content now also contains materials, which users can use out-of-the-box and also customize their color, bump, gloss and more.
- V-Ray Material improvements — The new thin-walled reflection control allows users to effortlessly create complex transparent and translucent materials.
- Decals — Easily project unique materials onto objects of any shape to create effects like graffiti on a wall, markings on a road, or logos on a product.
- More artistic control in post — The V-Ray Frame Buffer now has a sharpen and blur effect to polish final renders
- Render log — A detailed view of the rendering process making debugging and error reporting easier.
- New possibilities in V-Ray Vision
- Standalone app export - Share a project via an executable file which recipients can open even without having a V-Ray license so they can enjoy the full functionality of V-Ray Vision - including navigation controls, color correction parameters and more!
- Video export in WebM format.
- Sun animations from SketchUp can now be loaded into Vision for lighting studies.
- Preset grass can now be added to any surface for more realistic terrains.
- IES light profiles can now be used for more realistic presentations in Vision.
- And more performance and quality improvements.
Availability
If you are new to V-Ray for SketchUp, you can download demo versions here. If you are already using V-Ray 5 for SketchUp, you can go to your login page at Chaos Group's website to get your latest full version of V-Ray 5 for SketchUp.
Buy / Upgrade
If you are convinced of the possibilities of V-Ray 5 for SketchUp, you can purchase your (upgrade) license for the render plugin through our reseller channel.