Tutorials, tips & tricks, assets and more.

Everything you need to learn V-Ray.


Enhance your SketchUp rendering skills with these essential learning resources. Access a variety of official V-Ray for SketchUp video tutorials, free scenes, and comprehensive documentation to start producing stunning architectural renders and animations quickly.

New to V-Ray for SketchUp?


Start with a series of beginner-friendly tutorials and articles that will help you get familiar with the software and master the basics of creating photorealistic SketchUp renders today

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Creating your first render

V-Ray for SketchUp makes it easy to create great renders. In this tutorial, we talk you through your first steps with this software.

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Introduction to V-Ray for SketchUp webinar

In this webinar, we explore a project from the early stages of design exploration, assembling our scene, adding details, rendering and post-processing a final render, all with the help of V-Ray and its companion tools.

In-depth tutorials: From start to finish


Watch this video series to learn how to create stunning visualizations with V-Ray for SketchUp on entire scenes. All scenes and assets are available for download to help you practice.

See how others use V-Ray for SketchUp.


Palm Springs collaborative project proves to be a creative success

UK-based arch viz studio Archilime call themselves architectural storytellers. Learn how they employed V-Ray 6 to visualize a sustainable prefabricated home designed by Koto Design. 

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© Archilime
Courtesy of Battistella Developments & IBI Group

 

Detailing out an efficient design-build workflow

Scott Miller from Remington Development Corp. uses SketchUp & V-Ray to perfect the conceptual design process, from commercial to residential builds.

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Having issues activating your V-Ray license?

A common issue V-Ray users may encounter is a failure when activating their V-Ray license in SketchUp Studio. This means that either you have no access to the Chaos license server or that the license is unavailable. Continue reading to learn how to resolve these issues.
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