V-Ray

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ASGVIS has released V-Ray for Sketch-Up. This release brings users various performance enhancements, an out of the box rendering solution, and many great V-Ray features to Sketch-Up. V-Ray is a rendering plug-in that enables Sketch-Up users to take advantage of the power and speed of the Chaos Group's V-Ray rendering solution.

With V-Ray for Sketch-Up, ASGVIS offers visualization professionals a state-of-the-art solution that generates high-quality images of unparalleled realism. "Top studios in all disciplines have relied on V-Ray for years to generate photorealistic images of outstanding quality," says Corey Rubadue, ASGVIS Director. "With V-Ray for Sketch-Up, we're bringing this powerful, flexible, and affordable rendering solution to Sketch-Up users, enabling them to take full advantage of all that V-Ray has to offer."

Render Options are now easier than ever, with Default Render settings reflecting correct settings for Indirect Illumination, the V-Ray Sun, V-Ray Sky, and Sampling levels.

V-Ray offers Sketch-Up users a robust set of global illumination and ray-tracing features that enable them to bring their ideas to life quickly, easily, and cost-effectively.

FEATURES INCLUDE

True raytraced reflections and refractions
Glossy reflections and refractions
Area shadows (soft shadows). Includes box and sphere emitters
Indirect Illumination (global illumination, global lighting). Different approaches include direct computation (brute force), and irradiance maps.
Depth-Of-Field camera effect.
Antialiasing. Includes fixed, simple 2-level and adaptive approaches.
Caustics
Fully multithreaded raytracing engine
True HDRI support. Includes support of proper texture coordinate handling for both cubic and angular maps. Map your images directly without distortions or cropping.
Reusable irradiance maps (save and load support). Incremental sampling for fly-through animations.
V-Ray Material Editor with Material Preview
V-Ray Sun and Sky
V-Ray Physical Camera
Displacement
Distributed Rendering allowing a single image to be process over up to 10 machines
Per Material GI, Background, Reflection, and Refraction
V-Ray Two-Sided Material for easy creation of thin translucency
Animation Support

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