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.

Easily fine-tune any light source in your scene after you’re done rendering. Group them, adjust their brightness, color, and light materials, and create your best presentation.

Faster, cleaner and more accurate rendering in scenes containing many lights and image-based environment lighting.

Render photorealistic rooms and interiors with powerful and fast global illumination.

Render any type of natural, artificial, or image-based lighting with a wide range of built-in light types.

Simulate realistic daylight, sunrise and sunset, even as the sun dips below the horizon, for any time and location. SketchUp sun animation is supported.

Add procedural clouds to your V-Ray sky and animate them with a flexible and memory-efficient system.

The new Lighting Analysis render element makes it easy to visualize the real-world illumination (Lux) values of any scene.

Set up the HDRI environment around your model with improved precision with this new V-Ray Dome light mode.

Explore the latest optimized light fixture assets in Chaos Cosmos, designed using V-Ray Luminaires technology. Much easier to sample and render at faster speeds.

Create realistic night skies with ease. The new Night Sky in V-Ray Sun & Sky simulates the moon, stars, and Milky Way by location, date, and time—with full control over intensity, position, and phases.

Create realistic and unique shaders using any texture map or one of V-Ray’s many built-in procedural textures - Gradient, Temperature, Tri-Planar, etc.

The V-Ray Material provides support for PBR shaders with the Metalness reflection controls.

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.

Project unique materials onto objects of any shape and create effects like graffiti on a wall, markings on a road, or logos on a product. Easily cover any curved surface, add displacement, or blend decal and surface bump for even more realistic results.

Vary effects such as displacement or procedural fur based on proximity to create a realistic correlation between the elements in your composition.

2500+ scanned materials. Import and render directly in V-Ray.

Take advantage of the new override material features, combined with stylized rendering presets for fast iterations over schematic or diagrammatic render styles.

Create highly detailed textures with a powerful new layering system, similar to Photoshop’s. Stack and personalize each texture layer with complete control over opacity, blending modes, and more.

Enjoy advanced UV mapping capabilities, enabling precise texture manipulation and better control over color distribution. Perfect for detailed applications like pattern colorization, brick randomization, and custom wallpaper design.

Upload a photo of a real-world surface and turn it into a render-ready PBR material with all necessary maps in just a few clicks.

Jumpstart your workflow with built-in asset presets—apply proven configurations in one click for faster, better results.

Create realistic water surfaces quickly with V-Ray’s procedural water texture - generate waves for bump or displacement in just a few clicks.

The new Strand Sampler map lets you shade fur, grass, or carpets with natural color variations.

Bring more detail to your project with memory-efficient proxy models of complex objects like grass, trees, cars. Import and render V-Ray scenes (.vrscene) as references from other applications such as 3ds Max, Rhino, and Revit.

Import any .vrscene file directly as a SketchUp model with correctly sized and positioned objects, proper texture placement, lights and proxy references.

Quickly add surface detail without extra modeling with the optimized V-Ray displacement. The 2d Displacement mode is perfect for architectural materials like brick and stone.

Create realistic grass, fabrics, and carpet with V-Ray Fur.

Easily create quick cutaways and section renders with V-Ray Clipper and animate them while respecting object visibility. Convert any scene object to a clipper.

Effortlessly add grass, trees, rocks, and light sources to your scenes with just a few clicks. You can scatter across grids, curves, and volumes. And, you can limit scatter areas using area modifiers.

Render repeating geometry over object surfaces to create complex geometric forms — perfect for panels, fences, fabrics, and more.

Achieve the perfect look faster with powerful scattering controls—offering clustering, altitude limits, focal-point orientation, built-in distribution maps, Scatter Color textures, and more.