SketchUp is one of the most widely used and easy to learn 3D Modeling software on the market today. With V-Ray for SketchUp, users now have one of the most powerful rendering tools available to visualize their models with the upmost quality and realism. V-Ray works within the SketchUp environment allowing users to be able to efficiently incorporate the task of rendering within their current workflows.

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• NEW! SketchUp 8 Support
• NEW! Ward Reflection Shader Type
• NEW! More than 10 new Procedural Textures, including Dirt (to create ambient occlusion per material)
• NEW! Ambient Occlusion
• NEW! IES Lights and Spotlights
• NEW! Material Layer Arrangement
• NEW! Faster Parsing Times
• NEW! Support for SketchUp Transparency and Alpha Transparency
• True raytraced reflections and refractions
• Glossy reflections and refractions
• Indirect Illumination (global illumination, global lighting). Different approaches include direct computation (brute force), and irradiance maps.
• Area shadows (soft shadows). Includes box and sphere emitters
• True HDRI support. Includes support of proper texture coordinate handling for both cubic and angular maps. Map your images directly without distortions or cropping.
• Fully multithreaded raytracing engine
• Native SketchUp materials supported and integrated into V-Ray Materials
• Antialiasing. Includes fixed, simple 2-level and adaptive approaches.
• Reusable irradiance maps (save and load support). Incremental sampling for fly- through animations.
• Displacement
• V-Ray Material Editor with Material Preview
• V-Ray Sun and Sky
• V-Ray Physical Camera
• Depth-Of-Field camera effect.
• Distributed Rendering allowing a single image to be process over up to 10 machines
• Per Material GI, Background, Reflection, and Refraction
• V-Ray Two-Sided Material for easy creation of thin translucency
• Caustics
• Animation Support

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System Requirements:

Windows XP
Minimum hardware
600 MHz processor, 128 MB RAM, 128 MB of
available hard-disk space, 3D class Video Card with
128 MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the
video card driver supports OpenGL version 1.5 or
higher and up to date.

Windows Vista and Windows 7
Minimum hardware
1 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, 16 GB of total harddisk
space, 3D class Video Card with 256 MB of
memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card
driver supports OpenGL version 1.5 or higher and up
to date.

Please Note: This product is available to customers located within North America, Central America and the Caribbean Islands only. For a full list of allowable territories, please click here.