V-Ray Next for SketchUp

V-Ray Next for SketchUp not only renders faster than ever before, but does so with improved lighting setups, better asset management, and even more intelligent integration with 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.

What's New in V-Ray Next

V-Ray Next for SketchUp features a streamlined and creative workflow. You can expect powerful asset management, intelligent SketchUp integration, fast and effective lighting, efficient render controls, new masking methods, new materials and new textures. Performance has been optimised in V-Ray Next so you can make the most of faster rendering, AI denoising and better scene intelligence.

Powerful Asset Management
Keep track of your entire scene with ease, and streamline your workflow with the improved asset management tools featured in V-Ray Next for SketchUp. Seach, select and preview assets (including full material setups) all from one place.

• Quickly search through a huge number of assets either in the built-in library, or any other library location. The intuitive customisable folder structure allows you to manage assets of any type.
• Asset Outliner lists materials, geometries, lights, textures and render elements in a unified way.
• Simplifiy shader structure and management by mapping multiple material parameters with the same source texture.
• Observe parameter changes and preview materials, lights, textures and render elements in a single universal viewer.

Intelligent SketchUp Integration
Access everything you need easily with the new V-Ray toolbar, including improved tools to help you customise viewport styles, manage your scene and import scenes from other 3D applications.

• Using the V-Ray Scene Importer, you can open any .vrscene file directly as a SketchUp model with correctly sized and positioned objects, lights, references and texture placement.
• Scene Inspector is a new universal tool for scene and materials hierarchy exploration as well as for direct light intensity manipulation.
• The new V-Ray toolbar contains the Inspector as well as all the UV Tools and viewport widget display mode toggles.
• Easily customise the way V-Ray items are displayed in the SketchUp viewport, as well as hide them at will.

Fast and Effective Lighting
Set up, measure and render lighting in your scenes even easier and faster than before. You can now change the size of multiple light instances all at once without affecting their intensity, accurately measure light levels, and render interiors up to 7x faster with the Adaptive Dome Light.

• Accurately measure real-world illumination levels using the Lighting Analysis tool.
• Automatic camera exposure and white balance uses adaptive learning techniques to render perfectly exposed and colour balanced images.
• Adaptive Dome Light significantly improves interior scene set up and renders up to 7x faster than before.
• Light size parameters can be controlled to resize multiple light instances at the same time, or change the light size without affecting intensity.

Efficient Render Control
Render your work with ease by using straightforward camera settings featuring Auto Exposure and Auto White Balance controls. Simple camera settings to get the perfect image every time with just a few clicks.

• Quickly manipulate parameters with a redesigned camera UI.
• The updated render settings UI adds to the render functionality and organisation.
• Specify custom pixel resolutions without affecting the aspect ratio.

New Masking Methods
You can now render masks for objects based on RGB colours or material IDs, giving you more control over your renders in 2D.

• Create a colourful mask for scene objects based on material IDs.
• MultiMatte Materials creates red, green and blue selection masks based on material IDs.

New Materials & Textures
The standard V-Ray material in V-Ray Next for SketchUp is compatible with PBR metallic reflections. You can also remap RGB or HSV values of any texture for greater control.

• Remap any texture colour values using HSV or RGB curve controls.
• PBR shaders are now supported with the metallic layer of the generic material.

Faster Rendering
Numerous speed and performance optimisations mean faster rendering - especially when taking advantage of additional GPU-ready features and improved Cloud compatibility.

• A new rendering architecture renders twice as fast across GPUs supporting V-Ray's high end production features and bucket rendering mode.
• The updated and modernised shader structure improves Cloud compatibility, GPU Engine support and render speed.

Scene Intelligence
V-Ray Next for SketchUp can automatically analyse scenes to optimise rendering for you. Thanks to the Adaptive Dome Light and Automatic Camera Exposure tools, you can render perfect images in less time.

AI Denoiser
Instantly remove noise while you render with NVIDIA's AI Denoiser. The improved V-Ray denoiser even lets you denoise each render element to give you greater control in post-production.