
The upgrade price from V-Ray 1.49 for SketchUp or lower is $320. Pricing for V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp will remain unchanged at $800. V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp customers will have the option to purchase a new hardware key or install the license on an existing one. Registered users have access to a free demo through the V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp product page. To provide optimum security, reliability, and portability Chaos Group requires a hardware key to license its software. Those materials include: help documentation, a dedicated forum, and a dedicated product page. “We use V-Ray for SketchUp as a base for every illustration that leaves this studio,” said Jeremy Kay, Owner at StudioJDK. “Its remarkably fast rendering speeds, customization abilities and beautiful output never let you down or doubt why it’s our industry’s leading rendering software solution.”Ĭhaos Group has also prepared a long list of dedicated resources that will help new V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp users. The ability to produce animation for SketchUp projects has also been streamlined, ensuring a cleaner and easier creation process.

With 64-bit rendering, 3D artists can tap their 64-bit render farm for more processing power with added flexibility to render larger scene sizes, images, and animations in SketchUp.

The introduction of GPU support for V-Ray RT provides faster rendering and real time interactions with speed improvements up to 30 times faster. After receiving excellent feedback from beta testers, Chaos Group was able to turn what was initially supposed to be an incremental release into a major one. Since they were first revealed in beta form, V-Ray 1.6 for SketchUp’s banner features were met with much excitement in the V-Ray community.

It’s the one SketchUp plug-in I could never live without.” “V-Ray is the best rendering engine for SketchUp on the market today,” said Matthew Valero, Founder at Valero Studio. “High polygon proxies, RT rendering, and incredible accuracy at rapid speeds – simply amazing. 01 – V-Ray for SketchUp 2.0 released today offers numerous new features for photorealistic rendering directly within SketchUp 8, SketchUp Make 2013 and SketchUp pro 2013.
