We hope that this more balanced, SketchUp-centric perspective is useful for anyone who’s debated giving VRAY a spin.Īs always, we’d love your feedback if you have any as this is just the first in what has the potential to be a great rendering series.Ĭheers, Eric - Online Training Content Producer. Highly technical - dealing with detailed sub-menu minutiae that most beginning-level users just aren’t ready for. Scatter Add hundreds of objects on any surface in an intuitive and memory-efficient way. highly specific - dealing with one aspect of VRAY that may or may not be relevant to your needs or 2. V-Ray 5.2 for SketchUp is officially available for download now and now contains scatter, Chaos Vantage Live Link, Cosmos materials, decals and several improvements to V-Ray Vision. Setup the lighting in your scene by choosing an automatically generated thumbnail in a number of environment lighting scenarios. Much faster scene loading and scene export thanks to the newly refactored V-Ray backend. Why create this guide? Of course there’s no shortage of videos tutorials out there right now but I’ve found they generally tend to fall into two camps: 1. V-Ray 5 offers a faster and better rendering experience.

The internal shader structure used in V-Ray for SketchUp is updated and modernized.

It’s designed specifically to focus on the core aspects of getting up and running as quick and painless as possible with the latest version of VRAY and SketchUp Pro. The V-Ray plugin now loads faster upon SketchUp’s startup. We’re proud to release our first draft of a ‘Intro to VRAY Next for SketchUp Guide’.

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