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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. Convert any scene object to a clipper.

Scatter objects and Chaos Cosmos assets to create detailed terrains in a memory-efficient way. Use essential randomization parameters like density, size, and orientation for maximum realism.

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