M.A.D. - V-Ray

Smarter. Faster. Render.

Built for artists, designers & jacks-of-all-trades,
our 3D rendering software helps you visualize anything imaginable.
Save time and create your best work — with tech from Chaos Group

V-Ray for SketchUp

See your designs in real-time.

Seeing your Sketchup designs in real-time has never been easier. Now with V-Ray Vision*, you can visualize your designs in real-time while you work in SketchUp. Move around your model, apply materials, set up lights and cameras — all in a live real-time view of your scene. Watch a video >

*V-Ray Vision for MacOS will be supported in an upcoming release.

Rendering that’s as real as it gets.

With true-to-life lights, cameras, and materials, rendering with V-Ray is as real as it gets. For any project, you can see exactly how it will look. It’s as close you can come to the real thing before it’s built.

Get a headstart on your next project.

V-Ray comes with hundreds of ready-to-render materials that you can apply to any scene and access to an extensive library of video tutorials, free technical support, and helpful forums. V-Ray has one of the largest visualization communities, with a world of community-created content that’s readily available.

V-Ray is the ultimate power-up for SketchUp

V-Ray and SketchUp are the perfect team. SketchUp is the world’s most widely used 3D modeling software for architecture and design. And V-Ray is the world’s #1 rendering software for architectural visualization. The two together are the perfect combo to take your designs to the next level.

New Features in V-Ray 5 for SketchUp

REAL-TIME COMES TO V-RAY

Now with V-Ray Vision* you can visualize your designs in real-time while you work in SketchUp. Move around your model, apply materials, set up lights and cameras—all in a live real-time view of your scene. And when you’re ready for photo quality renders, V-Ray is ready to go.

With V-Ray Vision you can:

Explore your designs in real-time
Produce images from multiple camera angles
Create 360 panoramas
Render animations in real-time

*V-Ray Vision for MacOS will be supported in an upcoming release.

LIGHTING MADE EASY

Adjust the lights in your scene even after you render. With Light Mix, once your scene is rendered, you can interactively adjust the brightness and color of any light without having to render again.

POST-PROCESS YOUR RENDERS RIGHT IN V-RAY

V-Ray 5 features a new V-Ray Frame Buffer. With built-in compositing, you can make color corrections, combine render elements and save them as presets to be used in future—all without needing another app.

SEE YOUR DESIGNS IN THEIR BEST LIGHT

Light Gen is a new V-Ray tool that automatically generates thumbnails of your SketchUp scene each one presenting a unique lighting scenario. Choose your favorite look and you’re ready to render.

NEW LAYERED V-RAY MATERIAL

The V-Ray Material now includes built-in Coat and Sheen layers. Coat makes it easy to create materials with reflective coatings like varnished wood, and Sheen makes it easy to create fabrics like silk, satin, and velvet.

IMPROVED MATERIAL LIBRARY

The updated material library enables you to download remotely over 500 render-ready, high-resolution textures and materials including metals, glass, wood and more.

IMPROVED SUN AND SKY MODEL

Render your scene at the perfect light of magic hour. The Improved Sun & Sky model is more accurate, with a better looking sunrise and sunset, even as the sun dips below the horizon.

ADD RANDOMNESS FOR REALISM

To create more realistic materials, we’ve added new tools that randomize textures and colors.
The VRayUVWRandomizer lets you randomize texture coordinates and includes Stochastic Tiling that automatically fixes repeating textures.

IMPROVED CONTOUR RENDERING

The global Contours control gives you more control over linework, making it easier than ever to give your renders an illustrative look.

DIRT AND WEATHERING

Give your SketchUp models a weathered look with the improved V-Ray Dirt texture. Add dirt and streaks anywhere—in corners or across entire surfaces.

V-RAY CORE

Optimized V-Ray core and improved V-Ray GPU for an even faster and more stable rendering experience.

NEW SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE

Much faster scene loading and scene export thanks to the newly refactored V-Ray backend.

NEW DOCUMENTED API

For developers looking to create and connect tools with V-Ray for SketchUp, we’ve added a new fully documented API to make it as easy as possible.

KEY FEATURES

RENDERING

Real Time Rendering
CPU, GPU & Hybrid Rendering
Denoiser
Interactive rendering
Chaos Cloud
V-Ray Swarm

USER INTERFACE

Smart Asset Editor
File Manager
V-Ray Color Picker
V-Ray Frame Buffer
Universal Asset Preview

LIGHTING

Light Gen
Light Mixing
Adaptive Lights
Global Illumination
Accurate Lights
Sun & Sky
Lighting Analysis Tool

CAMERA

Real World Camera
Virtual Reality
Interactive Lens Effect
Automatic Exposure & White Balance

SHADING

Materials
Texture Maps
Metalness
Randomizer
VRSCANS

ATMOSPHERIC & VOLUMETRIC EFFECTS

Environment Fog
Aerial Perspective
Volumetric Materials

GEOMETRY MANAGEMENT

Proxy Geometry
V-Ray Scene Importer
Displacement
Grass
Section Cuts & Clipper

RENDER ELEMENTS

Render Elements
Cryptomatte Render Element

V-Ray for 3ds Max

Award-winning rendering technology for any project.

For truly photorealistic renders, you want a raytracer that’s built for quality, optimized for speed, and ready to scale. V-Ray gives you the power to work with lightning-fast interactive and heavyweight production rendering—all while getting the most from your CPU and GPU hardware.

Built to handle your toughest scenes.

When you’re working with the biggest scene you’ve ever seen, you need a renderer that won’t let you down. Billions of polygons? Thousands of lights? V-Ray can handle it all. Render anything and everything with V-Ray. Adaptive Lights, Proxy Objects, Distributed Rendering — an arsenal of production-proven features when you need them.

Post-process your renders without the need of a separate tool.

V-Ray equips you with a complete set of lighting, shading, and rendering tools—all integrated with 3ds Max. The redesigned V-Ray Frame buffer with light mixing and layered compositing means you only need to use one tool for more than just rendering — no need to go back and forth between different apps.

Free up your machine with quick and easy cloud rendering.

Turn your computer into a supercomputer with easy access to cloud rendering directly from V-Ray. Keep working on your designs and render on the cloud.

Learn more about Chaos Cloud >

Work seamlessly with other software.

V-Ray is compatible with all the most popular 3ds Max plugins — Substance, Forest Pack, Railclone, Ornatrix, Tyflow, Phoenix FD, and more. V-Ray is also the perfect fit for any pipeline with support for open standards such as Alembic, OSL, OpenColorIO, and now ACEScg.

New Features of V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max

LIGHT MIXING

Explore lighting possibilities interactively in real-time. Use LightMix in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer to freely experiment with lighting changes after you render, save out permutations, and push back improvements you’d like to have in your scene.

LAYERED COMPOSITING

The new Layer compositor lets you fine-tune and finish your images directly in the new V-Ray Frame Buffer — without the need for a separate post-processing app.

MATERIAL MANAGER

Efficiently browse from a library of over 500 render-ready materials including metals, glass, wood and more.

MATERIAL PRESETS

Save time creating common materials with presets for aluminum, chrome, glass and more. Presets for most used hair colors have also been added.

MATERIAL PREVIEWS

New rendered material swatches show you exactly what your materials will look like.

COAT LAYER

Add reflective coatings directly in the updated V-Ray Material, saving you both material creation and rendering time vs. using Blend material.

SHEEN LAYER

Create soft microfiber fabrics like velvet, satin and silk with the new Sheen options in the updated V-Ray Material.

TEXTURE RANDOMIZATION

Add variety to your scene with the new VRayUVWRandomizer map and enhanced VRayMultiSubTex controls.

STOCHASTIC TEXTURE TILING

Automatically remove texture tiling artifacts with the new Stochastic tiling option on the VRayUVWRandomizer.

EXTENDED V-RAY DIRT

Weathered streaks and dirt in crevices are now easy with the enhanced V-Ray Dirt, which now employs both ambient and inner occlusion.

NEW SUN AND SKY MODEL

Reproduce the subtleties of twilight when the sun is below the horizon with the new Sun and Sky model.

LIGHT PATH EXPRESSIONS

Use the behavior of light, rather than just geometry, to produce flexible masks for very efficient compositing. Built-in presets make getting started easy, while scripting is there for ultimate control.

BLUE-NOISE SAMPLING

Achieve better noise distribution with fewer samples.

NATIVE ACESCG SUPPORT

Select industry-standard ACEScg for rendering with automatic color space adjustment for textures, dispersion, sun & sky, and light temperature colors.

INITIAL OUT-OF-CORE

Initial out-of-core implementation to handle your largest scenes.