This page provides tables of features supported in CPU and GPU rendering with V-Ray in SketchUp.
Overview
These features are supported by V-Ray in SketchUp for Interactive and Non-Interactive rendering modes.
Both RTX and CUDA share the same V-Ray GPU engine supported features.
For more information on V-Ray GPU, see the GPU Rendering.
Supported Features
Main Render features
| Feature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Interactive rendering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Progressive image sampler | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bucket image sampler | ✓ | ✓ |
| Resumable rendering | – | – |
| V-Ray Denoiser | ✓ | ✓ |
| NVIDIA AI Denoiser1 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Viewport rendering (VPR) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Viewport region rendering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Batch rendering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud rendering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Batch render in Cloud | – | – |
| Distributed rendering via Swarm | ✓ | ✓ |
Camera
| Feature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| VRayPhysicalCamera | ✓ | ✓ |
| Camera Depth of Field | ✓ | ✓ |
| Camera motion blur | ✓ | ✓ |
| Stereoscopic | ✓ | ✓ |
| VR Cubemap | ✓ | ✓ |
| VR Spherical Panorama | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic Exposure | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic White Balance | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vignetting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vertical Tilt | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bokeh | ✓ | ✓ |
Environment Background Mapping
| Feature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Spherical mapping | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mirror ball mapping | ✓ | ✓ |
| Angular mapping | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cubic mapping | ✓ | ✓ |
| Screen mapping | ✓ | ✓ |
| Color/Texture Multipliers | ✓ | ✓ |
Geometry
| Feature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Triangle meshes | ✓ | ✓ |
| VRayProxy | ✓ | ✓ |
| Alembic via proxy | ✓ | ✓ |
| Subdivisions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Displacement | ✓ | ✓ |
| VRayFur | ✓ | ✓ |
| Infinite plane | ✓ | ✓ |
| VRayClipper | ✓ | PARTIAL (Only Section Plane) |
| V-Ray Scene | ✓ | ✓ |
Global Illumination Methods
| Feature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Brute Force | ✓ | ✓ |
| Light Cache | ✓ | ✓ |
| Irradiance Map | ✓ | – |
Lights
| Feature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| SunLight | ✓ | ✓ (Affect Diffuse and Specular controls not supported) |
| Rectangle Light | ✓ | ✓ (Decay control not supported) |
Sphere Light | ✓ | ✓ (Decay control not supported) |
| Spot Light | ✓ | ✓ (Texture map, Affect Diffuse and Specular controls and Inverse cube decay not supported) |
| IES Light | ✓ | ✓ |
| Omni Light | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mesh Light | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dome Light | ✓ | ✓ |
Materials
| Feature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Blend | ✓ | ✓ (without additive mode) |
| Car Paint | ✓ | ✓ |
| Emissive (without direct illumination) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Generic (V-Ray Material) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Override | ✓ | PARTIAL (without Environment) |
| Two Sided | ✓ | PARTIAL (without Multiply By Front diffuse) |
| Wrapper | ✓ | PARTIAL |
| Subsurface Scattering (raytraced) | ✓ | PARTIAL (without raytraced (solid) and raytraced (refractive)) |
| Bump | ✓ | ✓ |
VRscan | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hair | ✓ | ✓ |
| Toon | ✓ | – |
| Multi Material | ✓ | ✓ |
| SketchUp Texture Colorization5 | ✓ | ✓ |
Textures
| Feature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Bitmap4 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Color | ✓ | ✓ |
| Temperature | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gradient | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sky | ✓ | ✓ |
| Color Correction | ✓ | ✓ |
| Spline Curve | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bezier Curve | ✓ | ✓ |
Simple Mix | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mix (Value) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mix (Operator) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mix (Map) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-Sub3 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tri-Planar | ✓ | ✓ |
| Checker | ✓ | ✓ |
| Grid | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tiles | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloth | ✓ | ✓ |
| Leather | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bulge | ✓ | ✓ |
| UVW | ✓ | ✓ |
| Water | ✓ | ✓ |
| Noise A | ✓ | ✓ |
| Noise B | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cellular | ✓ | ✓ |
| Marble | ✓ | ✓ |
| Splat | ✓ | ✓ |
| Smoke | ✓ | ✓ |
| Stucco | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rock | ✓ | ✓ |
| Granite | ✓ | ✓ |
| Speckle | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edges | ✓ | ✓ |
| Falloff 2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fresnel | ✓ | ✓ |
| VRayDirt 3 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Curvature | ✓ | ✓ |
Render Elements
| Feature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Atmosphere | ✓ (without filtering control) | ✓ |
| Background | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bump Normals | ✓ | ✓ (without Opacity and Translucency) |
| Caustics | ✓ (without Std material support) | – |
| Cryptomatte | ✓ (without Filtering control) | ✓ |
| Denoiser | ✓ | ✓ |
| Diffuse | ✓ | ✓ |
| DR Buckets | ✓ | ✓ |
| ExtraTex | ✓ | ✓ |
| Geometry Normals | ✓ (without Opacity and Translucency) | ✓ (without Translucency) |
| Global Illumination | ✓ (without Std material support) | ✓ |
| Lighting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lighting Analysis | ✓ (without Transparency) | – |
| Material ID Color | ✓ | ✓ |
| Material ID Number | ✓ | ✓ |
| Material Random Color | ✓ | ✓ |
| Matte Shadow | ✓ | – |
| MultiMatte | ✓ | ✓ |
| Object ID | ✓ | ✓ |
| Raw GI | ✓ | – |
| Raw Light | ✓ | – |
| Raw Reflection | ✓ | – |
| Raw Refraction | ✓ | – |
| Raw Shadow | ✓ | – |
| Raw Total Light | ✓ | – |
| Reflection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reflection Filter | ✓ | ✓ |
| Refraction | ✓ | ✓ |
| Refraction Filter | ✓ | ✓ |
| Render ID | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sample Rate | – | ✓ |
| Self Illumination | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shadows | ✓ | ✓ |
| Specular | ✓ | ✓ |
| Subsurface Scattering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Total Light | ✓ | – |
| Z-Depth | ✓ | ✓ |
Other
| Feature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| VRayLensEffects (VFB) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Antialiasing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Adaptive Lights | ✓ | ✓ |
| VFB | ✓ | ✓ |
| Render Elements | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anisotropy | ✓ | ✓ |
| Aerial Perspective | ✓ | ✓ |
| Environment Fog | ✓ | ✓ |
Photon Mapped Caustics | ✓ | – |
| GI Caustics | ✓ | ✓ |
3rd-party plugins
| Feature | V-Ray CPU | V-Ray GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Skatter | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud support for Skatter | ✓ | ✓ |
| Laubwerk | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud support for Laubwerk | ✓ | ✓ |
| Archvision RPC | – | – |
| Cloud support for Archvision RPC | – | – |
Footnotes
1 – The NVIDIA OptiX Denoiser requires an NVIDIA GPU device.
2 – Only some procedural textures are supported by V-Ray GPU renderer when used for Bump mapping (f.e. noise and mix maps are supported).
3 – These plug-ins are only partially supported on GPU.
4 – The playback options are currently not supported.
5 – Does not affect the material preview in the Asset Editor.
Additional Notes
- CUDA engine supports map channels from 0 to 15.
- CUDA engine only supports normal maps in tangent space.
- The GPU Device Selection tool is not available on Mac OS X.