V-Ray for SketchUp

V-Ray for SketchUp Key Features 
 

V-Ray Next for SketchUp has been completely overhauled and improved to make it the most capable and effective renderer available for SketchUp.

V-Ray is used by visualising professionals worldwide and is the leading rendering solution for other platforms such as 3DS Max, Maya and Rhino. Now the full power of V-Ray is available for SketchUp.
 

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 for SketchUp files with any V-Ray 3.4 or higher application.

Technical Details / System Requirements

 V-Ray for SketchUp is a plug-in for SketchUp.  It will take advantage and make use of all processing cores on the host workstation.
 

Basic Specification Requirements
 

 WINDOWS

• 1 GHz processor
• 4 GB RAM minimum, 8 GB or more recommended
• 16 GB of total hard disk space
• 300 MB of available disk space

MAC OS X

• 2.1+ GHz Intel™ processor. Power PC is not supported
• 4 GB RAM minimum, 8 GB or more recommended
• 300 MB of available disk space

Supported platforms

• SketchUp 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 (64-bit versions only)
• Windows 7 (64-bit versions only)
• Windows 8.1 (64-bit versions only)
• Windows 10 (64-bit versions only)
• Mac OS X 10.9.x and up

Virtualization systems such as VMWare and Parallels are not recommended.

The use of imaged machines is not recommended due to the fact that the licensing is hardware dependent.

What’s New in V-Ray Next for SketchUp

• Deep SketchUp Connection - Enjoy a natural, steamlined design workflow that leaves more room for creativity
  • V-Ray Scene Importer
  • New toolbar
  • Improved Batch Rendering
  • Scene Interaction tool
  • Customizable viewport styles

• Powerful Asset Management
  • Asset Library Management
  • Asset Outliner
  • Texture Instancing
  • Multi-selection
  • Universal Asset preview
  • Intuitive asset creation
  • Material ID & MultiMatte Render Elements
  • UI display levels

• New Materials and Textures
  • Material Metallnes
  • Curve Colour Correction
     
• Efficient Render Controls
  • Customer output resolution
  • Intuitive camera UI
  • Redesigned render settings UI
     
• Scene Intelligence
  • Adaptive Dome Light
  • New Lighting analysis tools
  • Automatic Exposure and White balance
     
• Faster Rendering
  • Modernized shaders
  • Render speed - Render 2 x Faster
  • Twice as fast V-Ray GPU
     
• AI Denoiser
  • Denoising with AI
  • Denoised Render Elements

You can view the Chaos Group PDF document detailing all the new features within V-Ray Next for SketchUp here.