Updated 19 October 2019: Chaos Group has released V-Ray Next for SketchUp Update 1. The UI also gains a new V-Ray Toolbar intended for quick access to common tools and quick adjustments to cameras or render settings. Workflow improvements include a new asset-management system based around a library shared across SketchUp projects, and a Scene Interaction tool for direct access to any level of the SketchUp hierarchy. The update also adds support for Nvidia’s AI-based OptiX render denoising system, and makes the standard V-Ray material compatible with metalness PBR workflows used in game engines like UE4. Like its predecessors, it improves CPU and GPU render speed and introduces new ‘Scene Intelligence’ features designed to simplify render set-up, including the Adaptive Dome Light and automatic exposure. SketchUp is the latest host application to be updated to the new V-Ray Next architecture – V-Ray 4.x in old version numbering – after the release of V-Ray Next for 3ds Max and Maya last year. The update makes key features of V-Ray Next available to SketchUp users, including the Adaptive Dome Light and automatic exposure systems, and introduces new asset management tools.įaster rendering, new Scene Intelligence features and workflow improvements

Scroll down for news of Update 2.Ĭhaos Group has released V-Ray Next for SketchUp, the latest version of the renderer for Trimble’s architectural sketching software.

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