Rendering with V-Ray

This page provides information on rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp.

Overview

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V-Ray is a rendering plugin for Rhino. V-Ray offers two render engines: V-Ray and V-Ray GPU, which runs on both CUDA and RTX enabled devices.

Both V-Ray and V-Ray GPU engines support Production and Interactive Rendering modes. The Production Rendering mode utilizes all V-Ray's features and is intended to be used to create a clean production ready render.

The Interactive Rendering mode is a fast active renderer that can update the rendering as you make changes to the scene. The Interactive Renderer allows for rendering in the Viewport, where the render output overlays on top of SketchUp's viewport. With Viewport rendering, the scene is rendered interactively and if changes are made, the rendered result is updated.

The Interactive renderer always runs in Progressive mode, a progressive image sampling mode that refines the details over time. The Production rendering mode allows you to switch on/off the Progressive Rendering mode. Switching off the Progressive image sampler automatically activates the Bucket image sampler, which takes a variable number of samples per pixel depending on the difference in the intensity of the pixel.