V-Ray 6 for SketchUp - Upgrade

Highlights

V-Ray and Enscape compatibility You can now open your real-time Enscape scenes directly in V-Ray to continue building on your work to take it to the highest possible level of photorealism. Your department can now experience a fast and easy end to end design process.
	See your designs in real-time Seeing your Sketchup designs in real-time has never been easier. Now with V-Ray Vision*, you can visualize your designs in real-time while you work in SketchUp. Move around your model, apply materials, set up lights and cameras — all in a live real-time view of your scene. And when you’re ready for photo quality renders, V-Ray is ready to go.
Create photorealistic renders With true-to-life lights, cameras, and materials, rendering with V-Ray is as real as it gets. For any project, you can see exactly how it will look. It's as close you can come to the real thing before it’s built.
	Bring your scenes to life Employ our curated collection of smart assets — including high-quality models of furniture, accessories, vegetation and people — and stage your project with just a few clicks. The all-new Chaos Cosmos asset browser lets you easily drop render-ready 3D content right into your SketchUp scene.
Get a headstart on your next project V-Ray comes with hundreds of ready-to-render materials that you can apply to any scene and access to an extensive library of video tutorials, free technical support, and helpful forums. V-Ray has one of the largest visualization communities, with a world of community-created content that’s readily available.
	V-Ray is the ultimate power-up for SketchUp V-Ray and SketchUp are the perfect team. SketchUp is the world's most widely used 3D modeling software for architecture and design. And V-Ray is the world's #1 rendering software for architectural visualization. The two together are the perfect combo to take your designs to the next level.

What's new

When you're ready to create photorealistic renderings and animations, V-Ray does it all. And now, V-Ray 6 for SketchUp lets you do even more. Powerful new tools let you create detailed geometric patterns and beautiful custom skies. New and improved materials boost rendering speeds and realism. And cloud collaboration and Enscape compatibility bring teams together like never before.

Unify your workflow

V-Ray & Enscape compatibility If you use Enscape with SketchUp, we've got great news for you. V-Ray 6 for SketchUp now reads Enscape scenes directly, including materials and lights, so you can design in real-time and then render with V-Ray when you’re ready to take your visualizations to the next level.	Review renders with anyone, anywhere Sharing renders is easy with Chaos Cloud Collaboration. Right from the frame buffer, you can upload V-Ray renders to the cloud and review them with anyone from anywhere. With cloud collaboration, you get feedback in one place so you can keep projects on track and get approvals faster.

Powerful new tools

Procedural clouds Bring your scene to life with customizable skyscapes. V-Ray 6’s procedural cloud system generates memory-efficient cloudy skies and even gives you the ability to create eyecatching timelapse animations.	V-Ray Enmesh Add patterns over surfaces to create anything from fences to fabrics without breaking a sweat.	Finite Dome light This new V-Ray Dome Light feature makes it easy to add depth and scale to your project’s background when using image-based lighting.

New & improved materials

Distance Texture Quickly and easily add realism to your scenes by varying effects such as procedural fur or displacement based on their proximity to other elements. Form mold spots under downpipes or a path through a lawn.	Better translucent materials With improvements to the V-Ray Material’s subsurface scattering mode it’s faster to render translucent materials such as marble and frosted glass.

Enhanced Dirt texture Get more control when placing dirt in your scene by adding or excluding objects	Iridescent materials Oil spills, soap bubbles, and other iridescent surfaces are easy to make with the V-Ray Material’s new Thin Film option.	More accurate reflections V-Ray 6’s new energy preservation technique gives more accurate results from metals and rough reflective materials.

Key Features

Rendering:

• Enscape compatibility - Transfer your real-time scenes from Enscape and promote them to the highest level of photorealism. V-Ray supports Enscape materials, material keywords, light sources and compatible assets.
• Real-time rendering - With V-Ray Vision*, you can visualize your designs in real-time while you work in SketchUp. Move around your model, apply materials, set up lights and cameras—all in a live real-time view of your scene.
• CPU, GPU & Hybrid rendering - V-Ray comes with two powerful rendering engines. You can choose between super fast GPU and CPU or Hybrid rendering to best suit your project needs and requirements.
• Smart 3D assets - Our integrated asset library, Chaos Cosmos, enables you to search and add render-ready models, materials, and HDRI skies to your scene directly from the V-Ray toolbar. The Cosmos assets have automatic LoDs, accurate scale, and can be used across 3ds Max, Rhino, and Revit.
• Denoiser - Remove noise and dramatically cut the render times. With V-Ray Denoiser, you can denoise each render element in post-production. And with the NVIDIA AI Denoiser, V-Ray delivers instant feedback with less noise, while you design interactively.
• Interactive rendering - Render interactively while you design. Fine-tune lights and materials and see the results right away. View the render result directly in the SketchUp viewport.
• Resumable rendering - Stop your production renders and continue right where you left off without starting over.
• Chaos Cloud Rendering - Rendering on the Cloud is just one click away.
• V-Ray Swarm - Powerful and scalable distributed rendering system that's simple and fast. Get an extra speed boost with V-Ray Render nodes.
• V-Ray Swarm - Powerful and scalable distributed rendering system that's simple and fast. Get an extra speed boost with V-Ray Render nodes.

UI:

• Smart Asset Editor- Create, edit and manage all of your assets including lights, materials, textures, geometry and render elements all in one place. All assets are structured in an intuitive folder structure.
• File Manager - Manage all of your scene files in one place. Set file paths, create scene archives, and keep track of assets like textures, IES files, and proxy objects.
• Chaos Cloud Collaboration - Upload images and image panoramas to Chaos Cloud directly from the VFB, and collaborate with colleagues and clients.
• V-Ray Color Picker - A powerful color-picker allowing you to choose the exact color you need with the right hue and saturation. Provides RGB color values and a Kelvin temperature slider corresponding to every color slot.
• V-Ray Frame Buffer - Track render history and fine-tune color, exposure, render elements and more, directly in V-Ray’s frame buffer.
• Universal asset preview - Preview your materials, lights, textures and render elements in a single viewer. Observe how parameter changes affect the appearance of the asset in a specific isolated setting.
• Asset tags - Group assets using the new tags system in the Asset Editor to improve scene organization in complex projects.

Lighting:

• Light Gen - Light Gen is a new V-Ray tool that automatically generates thumbnails of your SketchUp scene each one presenting a unique lighting scenario. Choose your favorite look and you’re ready to render.
• Light mixing - Adjust the lights in your scene even after you render. With Light Mix, once your scene is rendered, you can interactively adjust the brightness and color of any light without having to render again.
• Adaptive lights - Faster, cleaner and more accurate rendering in scenes containing many lights and image-based environment lighting.
• Global Illumination - Render photorealistic rooms and interiors with powerful and fast global illumination.
• Accurate lights - Render any type of natural, artificial, or image-based lighting with a wide range of built-in light types.
• Sun & Sky - Simulate realistic daylight, sunrise and sunset, even as the sun dips below the horizon, for any time and location. SketchUp sun animation is supported.
• Procedural clouds - Add procedural clouds to your V-Ray sky and animate them with a flexible and memory-efficient system.
• Lighting analysis tool - The new Lighting Analysis render element makes it easy to visualize the real-world illumination (Lux) values of any scene.
• Finite Dome light - Set up the HDRI environment around your model with improved precision with this new V-Ray Dome light mode.

Camera:

• Real-world cameras - Work like a photographer, with controls for exposure, white balance, depth of field and more.
• Virtual Reality - Render VR-ready content for popular virtual reality headsets with the help of the VR Camera types in Stereo mode.
• Interactive lens effect - Instantly add GPU-accelerated glare, bloom and procedurally generated dust and scratches for added photorealism. Fine-tune lens effects interactively while you render.
• Automatic exposure & white balance - Capture the perfect exposure every time. The new Auto Exposure and Auto White Balance camera controls make rendering as simple as point and shoot.

Shading:

• Texture maps - Create realistic and unique shaders using any texture map or one of V-Ray’s many built-in procedural textures - Gradient, Temperature, Tri-Planar, etc.
• Metalness - The V-Ray Material provides support for PBR shaders with the Metalness reflection controls.
• Randomizer - To create more realistic materials, we’ve added new tools that randomize textures and colors. The VRayUVWRandomizer lets you randomize texture coordinates and includes Stochastic Tiling that automatically fixes repeating textures.
• Decals - Project unique materials onto objects of any shape and create effects like graffiti on a wall, markings on a road, or logos on a product.
• Distance texture - Vary effects such as displacement or procedural fur based on proximity to create a realistic correlation between the elements in your composition.
• Chaos Scans- 1000+ scanned materials. Import and render directly in V-Ray.

Atmospheric & Volumetric Effects

• Environment Fog - Quickly add realistic atmospheric depth and haze and use true 3D fog with realistic light scattering.
• Aerial perspective - Simulate natural looking skies with realistic atmospheric depth.
• Volumetric materials - Realistic material light scattering and translucency.

Geometry Management

• Proxy geometry - Bring more detail to your project with memory-efficient proxy models of complex objects like grass, trees, cars. Import and render V-Ray scenes (.vrscene) as references from other applications such as 3ds Max, Rhino, and Revit.
• V-Ray Scene Importer - Import any .vrscene file directly as a SketchUp model with correctly sized and positioned objects, proper texture placement, lights and proxy references.
• Displacement - Quickly add surface detail without extra modeling with the optimized V-Ray displacement. The 2d Displacement mode is perfect for architectural materials like brick and stone.
• Grass - Create realistic grass, fabrics, and carpet with V-Ray Fur.
• Section cuts & Clipper - Easily create quick cutaways and section renders with V-Ray Clipper. Convert any scene object to a clipper.
• Object scattering - Scatter objects and Chaos Cosmos assets to create detailed terrains in a memory-efficient way. Use essential randomization parameters like density, size, and orientation for maximum realism.
• V-Ray Enmesh - Render repeating geometry over object surfaces to create complex geometric forms — perfect for panels, fences, fabrics, and more.

Render Elements:

• Render Elements - Choose from many unique beauty, utility and matte passes to give you more control over your rendered images in compositing.
• Cryptomatte Render Element - Аutomatically generates and stores object- or material-based masks. It’s perfect when you need to accurately select objects in post-production.

 

Specs

Installation Requirements

In order to work properly, your copy of V-Ray for SketchUprequires:

	SketchUp  SketchUp Studio Subscription
OR
	SketchUp  SketchUp Pro Subscription

 

Support & Maintenance

A V-Ray Next for SketchUp major version has active SOFTWARE SUPPORT & MAINTENANCE from its release date to the following next major release date. During the SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE stage Chaos will:

• Release minor updates including patches, bug fixes, service packs, enhancements, new minor features, and platform compatibility updates.
• Provide support and technical assistance to clients.
• Provide software builds for download.

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