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This page provides information about submitting render jobs to Chaos Cloud from V-Ray for SketchUp. 


Overview

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V-Ray for SketchUp provides in-built integration with Chaos Cloud Rendering, allowing you to submit render jobs to the cloud directly from SketchUp, using the dedicated Render in Chaos Cloud and Chaos Cloud Batch Render buttons. This page walks you through the steps of doing so. 

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Chaos Cloud requires the installation of the Chaos Cloud Client application. For more information, please visit the Installation of Chaos Cloud Client page.

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If you add a new version of a job you have already submitted, its upload

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is much quicker than the initial upload. Chaos Cloud compares every new job to the existing ones, and if there is a match the client app

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uploads only the changes. This is useful when you make a new iteration of an existing scene and is why it's recommended to keep your jobs in Chaos Cloud while you are still working on them.

Submitting Render Jobs

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Use the Render with Chaos Cloud button to render the current scene view or animation. After adjusting the settings use the Submit button to submit the job to the Cloud for rendering. Once a job has been submitted it gets analyzed and sent to Chaos Cloud for rendering. Press the Submit new button to submit another job. Press the View job button to view your job on the Cloud.

Clicking on the Render in Chaos Cloud button will send over your currently opened scene to Chaos Cloud for analysis.

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If there are free resources in the cloud, Chaos Cloud

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starts rendering your job immediately. If there are no free resources, your job

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joins a queue and

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starts rendering automatically when resources become available.

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Alternatively, render jobs can also be submitted through the Standalone Chaos Cloud application and any command-line interface. For more information, please visit

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the Submitting render jobs to Chaos Cloud page.


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Select project – Select from your existing projects. 

Create New - Creates a new project.

Job name – Sets your job name. 

Job credit limit – Specifies the maximum amount of Cloud Credits that can be used for this job.

Upload only – Uploads your job to Chaos Cloud Rendering on status Paused. Resume the process manually when you want to render it.

Ignore warnings – Submits your job directly, ignoring all warnings, except fatal errors.

Render & output settings – Shows the render settings for this job. Adjust the rendering settings from the Render Settings menu in the host app. 

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Frame range – Specifies a frame range to be rendered. You can specify non-sequential animation frames, e.g. 1-3,7,9,12-15.

Frame step – Specifies a frame step in the frame range for rendering. For example, writing 8 in the Frame step box will render every eighth frame, hence the eighth, the sixteenth, the twenty-fourth, etc. Note that the first frame is always rendered.

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Chaos Cloud Batch Render

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Use the Chaos Cloud Batch Renderbutton to render multiple scenes simultaneously. After adjusting the settings use the Submit button to submit the job to the Cloud for rendering. Once a job has been submitted it gets analyzed and sent to Chaos Cloud for rendering. Press the Submit new button to submit another job. Press the View project button to view your project jobs on the Cloud. 


Select project – Selects from your existing projects. 

Create New - Creates a new project.

Batch upload only – Uploads your jobs to Chaos Cloud Rendering on status Paused. Resume the process manually when you want to render them.

Ignore warnings – Submits your jobs directly, ignoring all warnings, except fatal errors.


Rendering jobs

Shows a list of all scenes selected for rendering with their rendering settings adjusted from the Render Settings menu in the host app. 

Name – Sets your job name for this render.

Job credit limit – Specifies the maximum amount of Cloud Credits that can be used for this job render.

Upload only – Uploads your job to Chaos Cloud Rendering on status Paused. Resume the process manually when you want to render it.

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  • .vrimg is a Chaos proprietary file format used by the V-Ray Frame Buffer to store the rendered image incrementally (bucket by bucket) while rendering in full floating-point format, with all available render elements. It is used as a render output but it is not recommended to use it as a texture file format. VRIMG contains metadata, i.e. render statistics. It supports dynamic bucket size.