V-Ray for SketchUp Key Features
- CPU & GPU RENDERING MODES – V-Ray for SketchUp includes two powerful renderers in one. 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.
- V-RAY DENOISER – Automatically remove noise and cut render times by up to 50%. Now supports denoising after rendering.
- GLOBAL ILLUMINATION – Render photorealistic rooms and interiors with powerful and fast global illumination.
- ACCURATE LIGHTS – Render any type of natural or artificial lighting with a wide range of built-in light types.
- ENVIRONMENT LIGHTING – Simply light your scenes with a single HDR (high-dynamic-range) image of its environment.
- PHYSICAL SUN & SKY – Simulate realistic daylight for any time and any location. Now supports SketchUp sun animation.
- FOG & AERIAL PERSPECTIVE – Quickly add realistic atmospheric depth and haze. True 3D fog with realistic light scattering is now available.
- 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.
- PHYSICAL MATERIALS – Create great looking materials that look exactly like the real thing.
- MATERIAL LIBRARY – Select from over 500 drag and drop materials to speed up your next project.
- ADVANCED TEXTURES – Create realistic and unique materials using any texture map or one of V-Ray’s many built-in procedural textures.
- FRAME BUFFER – Track render history and fine-tune color, exposure, and more directly in V-Ray’s frame buffer.
- RENDER ELEMENTS – Render your scene as separate passes for more artistic control in your image-editing software.
- V-RAY SWARM – Introducing a powerful, scalable distributed rendering system that’s simple and fast. Get an extra speed boost with V-Ray Render nodes.
- PROXY OBJECTS – Bring more detail to your project with memory-efficient proxy models of complex objects like grass, trees, cars and more. Now supporting animated proxy objects.
- GRASS – Create realistic grass, fabrics, and carpet with V-Ray Fur.
- SECTION CUTS – Easily create quick cutaways and section renders with V-Ray Clipper. Now supporting Intersection mode.