

Unfortunately, it also shows its age a bit in the interface which, despite streamlining in recent versions, is still dull, with lots of large and sometimes disorganized square panes full of small text. V-Ray was in use more than a decade ago as of this writing, making it an extremely mature application that's compatible with just about anything. The software is frequently updated with under the hood features that allow it to take advantage of the latest CPUs and GPUs. V-Ray is 3D model rendering software, usable with many different modelling programs but particularly compatible with SketchUp, Maya, Blender and others for which it has a specialized version.


Once you've done that, be sure to take advantage of the resources below: To get started, you'll need to download and install V-Ray for SketchUp, then authorize it before you can dig in. We'll only be discussing the usage of V-Ray for SketchUp in this article. Besides this extension for use with SketchUp, they have other rendering solutions as well which aren't part of the SketchUp Studio collection.

V-Ray 5 for SketchUp is a popular rendering package by Chaos Group, a 3rd party.
