Chaos V-Ray for SketchUp

Real-time and photoreal rendering in one

The ultimate solution for SketchUp rendering

V-Ray® for SketchUp is a 3D rendering software that combines real-time and photorealistic rendering — all in SketchUp. From beginner to pro, Chaos® V-Ray has all the tools you need to create stunning architectural renders and animations.

Why choose V-Ray for rendering in SketchUp

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.

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

Compatible with SketchUp 2022

With V-Ray® 5 for SketchUp, update 2, you can craft your best work faster and present or share it in more engaging ways. The new V-Ray Decal makes it fast and easy to place materials onto surfaces without disturbing the underlying material, for everything from packaging labels to IndyCars. Quickly enrich your design with extensive entourage with the new Scatter tool—without encumbering SketchUp or V-Ray Vision. And share your V-Ray Vision results via video or interactive 3D versions of your scene.

Chaos Cosmos materials

Our curated collection of render-ready 3D content adds an important new category: materials. Take advantage of 200 new assets for your next project, including terrain, tiles, wooden floors, and more. Use them out-of-the-box or edit their color, bump, and gloss to fit your vision.

V-Ray Material improvements

Complex realism for transparent and translucent materials is made simple with the updated V-Ray Material. Easily create glass material for single-sided objects with the thin-walled option. Set up translucent materials like plastic or wax with a few clicks through the SSS and Volumetric translucency modes.

Decals

With the new V-Ray Decal, you can easily 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.

KEY FEATURES

Rendering

Real-time rendering

Visualize your designs in real-time while you work with V-Ray® Vision. Move around your model, apply materials, set up lights and cameras — all in a live real-time view of your scene. And take your design to the next level with Chaos Vantage Live Link, and explore even the most complex scene in pure ray-traced real-time.

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.

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.

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.

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 Light

Faster, cleaner and more accurate rendering in scenes containing many lights and image-based environment lighting.

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.

Shading

Material library

Create great looking materials or select from 500+ readily available ones in the asset library. From multilayered car paint to accurate subsurface scattering, you can create any imaginable material.

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.

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.

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.

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