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.

V-Ray for SketchUp Mac Edition offers the world renowned V-Ray rendering system for SketchUp natively on the Mac. Mac users will no longer need to emulate a Windows environment and can now take their SketchUp renders to the next level with V-Ray for SketchUp on the Mac OS!

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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:

Mac OS X
Minimum hardware
Intel processor, 512 MB RAM, 160 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, 3 button, scroll-wheel mouse.

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.