V-Ray NEXT for SketchUp Upgrade from version 3

V-Ray for SketchUp

V-Ray for SketchUp comes with all the lighting, shading, and rendering tools you need to create professional, photoreal imagery and animations. Built to handle your toughest projects and biggest scenes, V-Ray gives you the power to render anything and everything in SketchUp. Spend less time waiting and more time being creative, and deliver your best work without missing a deadline. V-Ray for SketchUp puts you in control. Its versatile feature set lets you pick the best approach for your scene. V-Ray is seamlessly integrated into SketchUp, so your workflow is fluid and smooth. Top artists & designers use V-Ray for SketchUp every day to create world-class images and designs.

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 real-world camera controls for exposure, white balance, depth of field and more.

PHYSICAL MATERIALS

Create great looking materials that look exactly like the real thing.

PROXY OBJECTS

Add highly-detailed models like grass, trees and cars as V-Ray proxy objects.

Network Rendering

Use the full computing power of your network to render single or multiple images all at once.

Advanced textures

Create realistic and unique materials using any texture map or one of V-Ray’s many built-in procedural textures.

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.

V-Ray Scene export

Share complete, ready-to-render V-Ray 3 for SketchUp files with any V-Ray 3.4 or higher application.

USB DONGLE

V-Ray requires a USB Dongle to license its software. This safely protects the V-Ray License from computer malfunctions, routine hardware maintenance, and equipment changes; and it provides users the ability to use V-Ray on multiple machines. The Dongle is not a node-locked device. The V-Ray License Server is a floating license system, allowing multiple users to check out a license up to the maximum concurrent number of licenses available.