V-Ray 6 for SketchUp

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Rendering UI Lighting Camera Shading Volume Effects Geometry Render Elements

Purchase V-Ray 6 for SketchUp for the ultimate SketchUp Pro rendering solution.

V-Ray 6 for SketchUp combines real-time and photorealistic rendering, giving you all the tools you need for stunning architectural renders and animations from SketchUp.

V-Ray for SketchUp combines real-time and photoreal rendering, all without leaving SketchUp. V-Ray is the renderer of choice for professionals across the design spectrum, popular with architects, interior designers and professionals working with the built environment.

When paired with SketchUp, V-Ray also lends itself well to many other design fields such as furniture and product design. An easy, natural extension of your SketchUp design workflow, you can render anything you can imagine from early design concepts through to your final photo-realistic images.

V-Ray for SketchUp | Rendering

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.

Smart Assets

The 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.

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.

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.

V-Ray for SketchUp | User Interface

V-Ray Frame Buffer

Track render history and fine-tune colour, exposure, render elements and more, directly in V-Ray’s frame buffer.

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.

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.

V-Ray Colour Picker

A powerful colour-picker allowing you to choose the exact colour you need with the right hue and saturation.

V-Ray for SketchUp | Lighting

Accurate Lights

Render any type of natural, artificial, or image-based lighting with a wide range of built-in light types.

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.

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.

V-Ray for SketchUp | 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.

Auto Exposure & White Balance

The Auto Exposure and Auto White Balance camera controls make rendering as simple as point and shoot.

V-Ray for SketchUp | Shading

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.

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.