New Features

Rendering

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.
*V-Ray Vision for MacOS will be supported in an upcoming release.

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.

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.

RENDER ELEMENTS
Choose from many unique beauty, utility and matte passes to give you more control over your rendered images in compositing.

V-RAY SWARM
Powerful and scalable distributed rendering system that's simple and fast. Get an extra speed boost with V-Ray Render nodes.

CHAOS CLOUD
Rendering on the Cloud is just one click away.

Learn more about cloud rendering in SketchUp >

System Requirements

This page provides information on the minimum required hardware to run V-Ray.

 * Please note that V-Ray for SketchUp version 2.0 and earlier are no longer supported.

WINDOWS

Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray. Note that V-Ray is only supported for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit versions of SketchUp.

MAC OS X

Please make sure that your system fulfills these requirements before installing V-Ray. 

V-Ray GPU works only with C++/CPU devices under macOS. V-Ray GPU can still be used in distributed rendering where a macOS machine runs the CUDA engine on a CPU device together with Windows/Linux machine(s) running CUDA engine on GPU device(s).

For more information on hardware, see the Hardware Recommendations article. 

What's New

Go beyond rendering.

V-Ray 5 for SketchUp lets you do more in your renderer than ever before. See your designs in real-time with V-Ray Vision*. Light scenes automatically with Light Gen. Relight your renders instantly with Light Mix. And fine-tune and finish your images without a separate app.

REAL-TIME COMES TO V-RAY

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.

With V-Ray Vision you can:

• Explore your designs in real-time
• Produce images from multiple camera angles
• Create 360 panoramas
• Render animations in real-time

SAVE TIME

Optimize your workflow

SEE YOUR DESIGNS IN THEIR BEST LIGHT
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.

UNLEASH YOUR CREATIVITY

Add realism to your designs

IMPROVED SUN AND SKY MODEL
Render your scene at the perfect light of magic hour. The Improved Sun & Sky model is more accurate, with a better looking sunrise and sunset, even as the sun dips below the horizon.

Full list of all list in V-Ray 5 >

Free Trial

Download Free Trial Demo: https://www.chaosgroup.com/trial/vray-sketchup

Gallery: https://www.chaosgroup.com/vray/sketchup#showcase