V-Ray for SketchUp - Real-time and photoreal rendering

• NEW in v6: V-Ray & Enscape compatibility
  With V-Ray 6 it is possible to directly convert real-time scenes from Enscape and make them as photo realistic as possible. Because Enscape materials, objects, and lights are supported, all design decisions are preserved during the different design stages. This ensures flawless collaboration between designers and visualization experts.
• NEW in v6: Procedural clouds
  Add just the right clouds to any scene without spending hours browsing through HDRI libraries. The new procedural cloud system is a flexible and memory-efficient way to create any cloudy sky and animate it for impressive timelapse presentations.
• NEW in v6: V-Ray Enmesh
  Create complex geometric patterns on object surfaces to make panels, fences, fabrics, and more in an automated and memory-efficient way.
• NEW in v6: Finite Dome light
  Fine-tune the scale and add depth to the environment of projects when using image-based lighting with this new V-Ray Dome Light mode.
• NEW in v6: Distance Texture
  Vary effects such as displacement or procedural fur based on proximity for a realistic correlation between elements in a scene. Create a well-trodden path through a procedural lawn or form dark spots under downspouts.
• NEW in v6: Iridescent material
  Easily create iridescent materials such as soap bubbles, oil spills, and more with the new Thin Film option available in the V-Ray Material.
• NEW in v6: Asset tags
  Group assets using the new tag system in the Asset Editor to improve scene organization in complex projects.
• NEW in v6: ACEScg Color Management
  Take advantage of a wider color palette for render output with the industry-standard ACEScg color coding system.
• Chaos Cosmos library
  The new curated 3D content library, Chaos Cosmos, brings essential assets from categories such as people, vehicles, plants, furniture and accessories. Herewith users can stage any interior or exterior without the need to spend any time on geometry optimization or material setup—the Cosmos assets are always render-ready and deliver high-quality results.
• V-Ray Vision
  Visualize your designs in real-time while continue working in SketchUp. Move around your model, apply materials, set up lights and cameras - all in a real-time view of your scene.
• Light Mix
  Once your render is finished, you can interactively adjust the brightness and color of any light without having to render again.
• Light Gen Tool
  Setup the lighting in your scene by choosing an automatically generated thumbnail in a number of environment lighting scenarios. Choose your favorite look and you’re ready to go!
• Direct Post-Processing in V-Ray
  A new V-Ray Frame Buffer with built-in compositing, so you can make color corrections, combine render elements and save them as presets to be used in future—all without needing another app.
• User Interface
  A designer-friendly user interface for faster workflows.
• Material Libray
  Over 200 drag and drop materials to speed up your next projects.
• V-Ray Swarm
  A powerful, scalable distributed rendering system that's simple and fast.
• Denoiser
  Automatically remove noise and cut render times by up to 50%.
• One-click VR
  Render VR-ready content for popular virtual reality headsets.
• Section Cuts
  Easily create quick cutaways and section renders with V-Ray Clipper.
• Aerial Perspective
  Quickly add realistic atmospheric depth and haze.
• Grass
  Create realistic grass, fabrics and carpets with V-Ray Fur.
• Twin-engine Performance
  V-Ray includes two powerful rendering engines. With CPU or GPU acceleration, you can use the best engine for your project and hardware.
• Interactive Rendering
  Render interactively while you design. Fine-tune lights and materials and see the results right away.
• Global Illumination
  Render photorealistic rooms and interiors with V-Ray’s powerful and fast global illumination.

• Accurate Lights
  Render natural and artificial lighting using a wide range of built-in light types.
• Environment Lighting
  Light your scenes using a single high-dynamic-range image (HDRI) of its environment.
• Physical Sun & Sky
  Simulate realistic daylight for any time and any location.
• Real-world Cameras
  Work like a photographer, with controls for exposure, white balance, depth of field and more.
• Physical Materials
  Create great looking materials that look exactly like the real thing.
• Advanced Textures
  Create realistic and unique materials using any texture map or one of V-Ray’s many built-in procedural textures.
• Proxy Objects
  Bring more detail to your project with memory-efficient proxy models of complex objects like grass, trees, cars and more.
• Render Elements
  Render your scene as separate passes for more artistic control in your image-editing software.
• Frame Buffer
  Track render history and fine-tune color, exposure, and more directly in V-Ray’s frame buffer.
• Network Rendering
  Use the full computing power of your network to render single or multiple images all at once.
• V-Ray Scene Export
  Share complete, ready-to-render V-Ray 3 for SketchUp files with any V-Ray 3.4 or higher application.

V-Ray & Enscape compatibility

With V-Ray 6 it is possible to directly convert real-time scenes from Enscape and make them as photo realistic as possible. Because Enscape materials, objects, and lights are supported, all design decisions are preserved during the different design stages. This ensures flawless collaboration between designers and visualization experts.

Procedural clouds

Add just the right clouds to any scene without spending hours browsing through HDRI libraries. The new procedural cloud system is a flexible and memory-efficient way to create any cloudy sky and animate it for impressive timelapse presentations.

V-Ray Enmesh

Create complex geometric patterns on object surfaces to make panels, fences, fabrics, and more in an automated and memory-efficient way.

Finite Dome light

Fine-tune the scale and add depth to the environment of projects when using image-based lighting with this new V-Ray Dome Light mode.

Distance Texture

Vary effects such as displacement or procedural fur based on proximity for a realistic correlation between elements in a scene. Create a well-trodden path through a procedural lawn or form dark spots under downspouts.

Better translucent materials

Render translucent materials like frosted glass or marble faster with the V-Ray Materials improved subsurface scattering mode.

Enhanced Dirt texture

Place dirt with higher precision by adding or excluding objects.

Iridescent material

Easily create iridescent materials such as soap bubbles, oil spills, and more with the new Thin Film option available in the V-Ray Material.

More accurate reflections

Metals and rough reflective materials are displayed more accurately thanks to a new energy conservation technique.

Pause your renders

Pause and resume renders at any time.

Asset tags

Group assets using the new tag system in the Asset Editor to improve scene organization in complex projects.

ACEScg Color Management

Take advantage of a wider color palette for render output with the industry-standard ACEScg color coding system.

• V-Ray Vision
  You are familiar with the real time preview of your render. But this is new! Now you can visualize your designs in real-time while continue working in SketchUp. Move around your model, apply materials, set up lights and cameras - all in a real-time view of your scene.
• Light Mix
  Once your render is finished, you can interactively adjust the brightness and color of any light without having to render again.
• VRayUVWRandomizer
  An irritating and apparent repeating texture is no longer visible thanks to this tool that randomizes texture coordinates and includes Stochastic Tiling
• Improved Sun and Sky model
  Render your scene at the perfect light of magic hour. The Improved Sun & Sky model is more accurate, with a better looking sunrise and sunset, even as the sun dips below the horizon.
• Optimized V-Ray Core
  V-Ray 5 offers a faster and better rendering experience.
• New software architecture
  Much faster scene loading and scene export thanks to the newly refactored V-Ray backend.
• Light Gen Tool
  Setup the lighting in your scene by choosing an automatically generated thumbnail in a number of environment lighting scenarios. Choose your favorite look and you’re ready to go!
• Post-Processing Directly in V-Ray
  A new V-Ray Frame Buffer with built-in compositing, so you can make color corrections, combine render elements and save them as presets to be used in future—all without needing another app.
• New layered V-Ray material
  The V-Ray Material now includes built-in Coat and Sheen layers. Coat makes it easy to create materials with reflective coatings like varnished wood, and Sheen makes it easy to create fabrics like silk, satin, and velvet.
• Improved contour rendering
  The global Contours control gives you more control over linework, making it easier than ever to give your renders an illustrative look.
• Dirt and weathering
  All that glitters is not gold… Give your SketchUp models a weathered look with the improved V-Ray Dirt texture. Add dirt and streaks anywhere—in corners or across entire surfaces.
• New documented API
  For developers looking to create and connect tools with V-Ray for SketchUp, Chaos Group has added a new fully documented API to make it as easy as possible.

• SketchUp Pro 2019 Support
  V-Ray Next for SketchUp supports the latest version of SketchUp Pro, version 2019.
• Powerful Scene Intelligence
  Automatically analyzes your scene to optimize rendering — so you get the best quality in less time.
• Adaptive Dome Light
  Faster, cleaner and more accurate image-based environment lighting. Up to 7x faster than before.
• NVIDIA AI Denoiser
  Instantly remove noise while rendering. Based on AI-accelerated denoising technology by NVIDIA.
• 2x Faster Rendering
  Faster rendering with GPU-ready features.
• Powerfull Asset Management
  Search, select and preview assets (including material setups) all from one location.
• A Deep SketchUp Connection
  Better scene management and import V-Ray Scenes from other 3D applications.
• Efficient Render Control
  The new Auto Exposure and Auto White Balance controls will help you get a perfect image every time!
• New Masking Methods
  Render masks for objects based on RGB colors or material IDs.
• New Materials and Textures
  The standard V-Ray Material is compatible with PBR metallic reflections that are popular in game engines and other tools such as Substance Designer.

• SketchUp Pro 2018 support
• Streamlined UI - The entire V-Ray for SketchUp interface is now cleaner and simpler, with better support for 4K monitors.
• Viewport Rendering (VPR) - Render live directly in the SketchUp viewport, select and render mutiple regions, and quickly blend between your V-Ray render and SketchUp model using the +/- hotkeys to control opacity.
• Powerful GPU & Hybrid Rendering - Faster, more powerful GPU rendering capabilities and V-Ray GPU running on NVIDIA CUDA taking full advantage of all available hardware (CPUs and GPUs).
• VRscans - Now compatible with real-world scanned materials from VRscans with over 600 photorealistic, drag-and-drop materials to bring a new level of realism to any scene.

• SketchUp 2017 Support
  V-Ray 3 for SketchUp is compatible with SketchUp 2015, 2016 and 2017.
• Online Licensing
  With online licensing, licenses can be activated in real-time once an order is processed. This option is only available for new licenses.
• New User Interface
  A designer-friendly user interface for faster workflows.
• Material Libray
  Over 200 drag and drop materials to speed up your next projects.
• V-Ray Swarm
  A powerful, scalable distributed rendering system that's simple and fast.
• Denoiser
  Automatically remove noise and cut render times by up to 50%.
• One-click VR
  Render VR-ready content for popular virtual reality headsets.
• Section Cuts
  Easily create quick cutaways and section renders with V-Ray Clipper.
• Aerial Perspective
  Quickly add realistic atmospheric depth and haze.
• Grass
  Create realistic grass, fabrics and carpets with V-Ray Fur.

Dome Light - provides a simple, artifact-free solution for creating image based lighting. Its powerful importance sampling analyzes HDR images to optimize light tracing and GI precision.

V-Ray Proxy - indispensable tool for managing scene memory and efficiently rendering massive amounts of geometry. V-Ray Proxy objects are dynamically loaded and unloaded at render time, saving vital RAM resources.

Lens Effects (Glare / Bloom ) - simulate the natural lens effects that occur when photographing highlights.

Retrace Threshold - reduces Light Cache artifacts and improves the appearance of glossy reflections and refractions when using the time-saving feature - Use light cache for glossy rays.

Sphere Light - create spherically shaped area lights.

Lights as components - V-ray lights can now be part of a SketchUp component. This makes it easy to change the design and settings of multiple lights at one time.

Faster Parsing Times - major speed improvements hae been made when processing the SketchUp scene for rendering with V-Ray.

64-Bit support

SketchUp Pro 2013 support