A leading rendering technology and market leader, V-Ray, will be incorporated into Trimble’s flagship product, SketchUp. Among the world’s most advanced 3D modeling applications, SketchUp is still the most popular. V-Ray 5 is flexible to meet your needs.
This rendering solution is an integral part of SketchUp, giving designers the ability to see their creations in real-time while they model and then bring them to photorealistic levels without leaving SketchUp. 95% of the top AEC firms in the world use it. It is preferred by many 3D artists.
Why you use V-ray 5
Architects, engineers, and construction professionals can visualize their designs in photorealistic detail and in real-time with V-Ray 5. You will have a better understanding of your design intent, materials, and aesthetics, and better collaboration between stakeholders. Your concept is clear about its placement in the context, its materials, and the way it will look in the light or under fog.
V-Ray lets you choose the appropriate rendering style for each project stage, from conceptual renders to interactive and real-time renderings; fast renders for comparing design options to photorealistic renders for building anticipation.
V-ray 5 Integration with SketchUp
Users of SketchUp Studio will now have the ability to produce high-quality, photographic-realistic renderings directly within Trimble’s SketchUp. V-Ray’s web-based 3D content library called Chaos Cosmos includes the SketchUp Studio integration with V-Ray.
You can download and use a wide range of render-ready content in SketchUp’s library. The V-Ray toolbar provides direct access to 3D content in SketchUp, allowing users to search for, download, and edit it. SketchUp’s new V-Ray integration allows users to add global illumination, artificial lighting, realistic materials, and textures, as well as atmospheric effects to their 3D models.
Moreover, V-ray 5 offers greater accuracy near the horizon, right before sunrise, and right after sunset. An automatic texture fix can change textures and materials subtly. Surfaces with reflections will no longer require blending materials. Native materials in Revit can use displacement as well as V-Ray.
Rendering Improvements
V-ray 5’s redesigned Frame Buffer makes adding a personal touch to any rendering a snap. Users can customize any color and brightness of light interactively without re-rendering so they can create multiple lighting scenarios using just one render.
Renderings with Line Renderings have a graphical appearance thanks to the use of global contour controls and material overrides. Furthermore, the software allows users to adjust their color balance, exposure, and color correction using the software rather than external tools. The Layer Composer also allows you to save custom presets.
Developing Virtual Reality & Animations
You can communicate your narrative during any phase of design by rendering animations and fly-through. During bids and competitions, you can amaze potential clients with animations. Consider generating interest and excitement during the final phase of design for commercial properties. Engaging stakeholders in the design process with 360-degree photorealistic panoramas viewed in virtual reality is an effective way to get their input.
Availability
V-Ray 5 is available now as part of Trimble‘s SketchUp subscriptions. In addition to SketchUp, Trimble Connect offers collaboration for AEC professionals, Scan Essentials helps create models from point clouds, and V-Ray renders models.
Wrapping it Up
By adding global illumination, interior, and exterior lighting, line rendering, material and texture materialization, atmospheric effects, and reflective coatings to your 3D models, V-Ray enables you to take them from conception to completion. In addition to rendering in real-time, V-Ray Vision allows you to create models in real-time. You can make adjustments while you’re working in SketchUp without ever leaving the program.
