Chaos Group V-Ray Next for Sketchup is Now Available

What’s new in Chaos Group V-Ray Next for Sketchup?

Compatible with SketchUp 2019

Streamlined workflow

  • Powerful asset management – Streamline your workflow and keep track of your entire scene quickly and easily with the new and improved asset management tools in V-Ray Next for SketchUp. You can now search, select and preview assets — including full material setups — all from one location.
  • Deep SketchUp connection – In addition to rendering, V-Ray Next for SketchUp adds new and improved tools to help you manage your scene, customize your viewport styles, and import V-Ray scenes from other 3D applications. And to expand your toolkit further, it includes improved network rendering and a new V-Ray toolbar to make it easy to access all your favorite tools.
  • Efficient render control – The new intuitive camera settings make it easy to render your next masterpiece with V-Ray Next for SketchUp. The updated layout for the camera controls let you manipulate the quick and advanced parameters at the same time. You can now specify custom pixel resolutions without bothering with the aspect ratio.
  • New materials and textures – Now in V-Ray Next for SketchUp, the standard V-Ray Material is compatible with PBR metallic reflections that are popular in game engines and other tools such as Substance Designer. And for even greater control, you can also remap the RGB or HSV values of any texture.

Scene Intelligence

  • Automatic exposure and white balance – With the new Automatic Exposure option, V-Ray now uses adaptive learning techniques to help you render a perfectly exposed image each time. You can also rely on the new Automatic White Balance feature to automatically remove any warm or cold light tint coming from the sun or skylight.
  • Adaptive Dome Light – Adaptive Dome Light can automatically increase your render speed up to 7x faster depending on the scene. The ADL is exceptionally fast when working with interiors, and removes the need to add Portal Lights at windows and openings.

Optimized performance

  • Faster rendering – Render twice as fast with V-Ray Next for SketchUp. Speed and performance optimizations mean faster rendering. Plus, enjoy quicker-than-ever renders with additional GPU-ready features and improved Cloud compatibility.
  • AI denoiser – With the new NVIDIA AI Denoiser, you can instantly remove noise while you render. And with the improved V-Ray Denoiser, you can denoise each render element for even more control in post-production.

We’d also like to invite you to register for V-Ray Next for SketchUp webinar on March 6, 2019.
CG Specialist Cory Holm will show you how the powerful new additions to V-Ray Next for SketchUp deliver great-looking results right out of the box.

Register for the webinar

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What’s New for SketchUp in 2019?

SketchUp Pro 2019 is here, it’s faster and more powerful than ever, with bug fixes, system improvements, and some shiny new features.
Here are a few of the highlights:

SketchUp Pro 2019 for Desktop
You’ll notice an upgrade to your welcome window where you can easily find recent projects and lots of helpful learning content.

Brand new for 2019, SketchUp Pro & LayOut: Layers now have dashes. A much-anticipated feature, dashed lines allow you to simplify your drawings with effective drawing communication. Learn how to use dashed lines and make your drawings communicate more effectively.

The Tape Measure tool got a facelift this year. Now you can see measurement info right where you’re modeling. Model more accurately — and more efficiently — right where you’re working.

LayOut
In both SketchUp and LayOut we have made improvements to our .dwg import and export feature. Including but not limited to support for AutoCAD 2018 file format, increased precision and stability. We added the ability to import and export with materials for better BIM interoperability and workflows using the .dwg format.

The handshake between SketchUp and LayOut has improved by creating an “Export for SketchUp” feature for our .dwg exporter that sends all LayOut entities along with any SketchUp viewport data to the model space. Now any filled shape created in LayOut will be passed over to SketchUp as face ready to be Push/Pull’d. So now, SketchUp & LayOut work even better together.

New for 2019, LayOut will let you know which files are already open so you’re not creating multiple versions. Looks like someone’s projects just got a little bit smarter.

Also new this year, an easy way to learn the basics of LayOut.  It’s time to go 2D: What are you waiting for?

3D Warehouse
 With millions of models and 17 languages, it’s not always easy to find exactly what you’re looking for on 3D Warehouse. That’s why we created categories. This update boasts better browsing, search refinement, subcategories, and filtering by real products. This year, 3D Warehouse enables you to spend less time searching and more time creating.

Head to the warehouse to give it a try!

That’s a whole lot of new things for you to explore. Ready for the new SketchUp?

Contact us for more information.



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V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp: End of Support

From February 5, Chaos Group will no longer provide technical help and updates for V-Ray 2.0.

Here’s everything you need to know — including what to do Next.
We’re writing to let you know that Chaos Group’s support for V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp will cease on February 5, 2019. While your 2.0 license will continue to work, after that date you will:not have on-demand access to V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp builds no longer have assisted technical support from Chaos Groupreceive no software updatesnot be eligible for upgrade to V-Ray Next for SketchUp 

So what’s Next?
Now is the perfect time to upgrade. In a couple of weeks, Chaos Group will release V-Ray Next for SketchUp, a feature-packed  brand new version of your favorite SketchUp renderer.

Choose one of the options below and you’ll continue to get Chaos Group’s
first-class technical and operations support, access to future updates andupgrades — and a shiny new version of V-Ray.

Switch to an Annual License
Our subscription model is packed with benefits, including:- Cost-effectiveness and simplified scalability
Low initial cost, which is great for freelancers, small and medium businesses.
Free minor updates and major upgrades released during the license validity period
Free technical and operations support

Upgrade to V-Ray 3.0 for SketchUp before February 5th 
If the perpetual licensing model suits your needs, it may be wise to upgrade to V-Ray 3.0 for SketchUp before February 5. With this option, you’ll keep your access to Chaos Group’s technical support and you can purchase an upgrade to V-Ray Next for SketchUp when needed.


Upgrade to V-Ray 3.0 for SketchUp and become eligible for upgrade to V-Ray Next for SketchUp

Purchase Annual Rent license V-Ray 3.0 for SketchUp and be eligible for free upgrade to V-Ray Next for SketchUp

Please contact us for additional information.



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Chaos Group launches V-Ray Next for 3ds Max

Chaos Group has officially launched V-Ray Next for 3ds Max, the long-awaited major update to its production renderer, following five months in public beta.

The release was announced earlier this morning at the company’s Total Chaos user event, with the software actually expected to become available to users next week.

New ‘Scene Intelligence’ features, new V-Ray GPU rendering architecture, overall speed boosts
A major overhaul of V-Ray’s two-decades-old code base, V-Ray Next promises a boost in overall rendering performance of “up to 25 percent”, according to Chaos Group CTO Vlado Koylazov.

The speed gains are augmented by two of V-Ray Next’s key changes: new ‘Scene Intelligence’ features designed to simplify the set-up of complex scenes, and V-Ray GPU, its new GPU rendering architecture.

Other key features include Nvidia’s AI-based OptiX render denoiser, a new physiologically plausible hair shader, a new V-Ray Switch material for look dev work, and a scene lighting analysis system.

Pipeline improvements include support for layered Alembic files, and the V-Ray Plugin material and texture, which enable users to load any material or texture from the standalone edition of the renderer.

 

Pricing and availability
V-Ray Next for 3ds Max is expected to become available to users next week. The software is compatible with 64-bit 3ds Max 2013 and above, running on Windows 7 and above.

The release marks a change of pricing, with a workstation licence and one render node now costing $1,180: up $140 from version 3.x. Rental pricing now starts at $470/year, down $50/year on 3.x.

Read an overview of the new features in V-Ray Next for 3ds Max on Chaos Group’s product page

Read a full list of new features in V-Ray Next for 3ds Max in the online release notes

 

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Chaos Group V-Ray Next – Beta

The next major release of  V-Ray will be smarter, faster and even better.

Here’s a peek at some of the new features in V-Ray Next, Beta 1 for 3ds Max, and many more are on the way.

V-Ray GPU
Fast GPU production rendering with faster, cleaner lighting — now supports environment fog and VRscans.

NEW Adaptive dome light
Faster, cleaner image-based lighting, removing the need for skylight portals.

NEW Auto exposure & white balance
Fast, automatic scene analysis determines correct exposure and white balance for your image.

V-RAY PHYSICAL CAMERA
Back by popular demand, the V-Ray Physical Camera has been updated with a simpler UI and support for the new auto exposure and white balance settings.

NEW Hair shader
New more realistic VRayHairMtl2 hair shader with melanin color controls, better highlights and more natural light distribution.

NEW Switch material
Easily switch between several materials applied to any object with the new VRaySwitchMtl, great for rendering material options, adding random variations or creating render passes.

NEW V-Ray Plugin material and texture
Load any texture or material that’s available in V-Ray Standalone and render it in V-Ray for 3ds Max using the new V-RayPluginTex or VRayPluginMtl.

Denoise render elements
Denoise any render element, not just the beauty pass, for better control in compositing.

NEW V-Ray SDK
Updated rendering architecture that takes full advantage of modern hardware, including optimized vector calculations using SSE 4.2 and customized Intel® Embree ray tracing library 2.13.

Beta is open to V-Ray 3.x for 3ds Max customers.

Requires SSE 4.2 compatible processor.

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Chaos Group VRscans Photoreal Material Library – 20% off until January 5, 2018

Chaos Group is offering 20% Discount on VRscans Photoreal Material Library until January 5, 2018.

The VRscans Library contains over 650 pre-scanned materials ready to be applied to 3D visualizations in 3ds Max, Maya or SketchUp.

The growing collection includes samples of car paint, fabric, leather, wood, plastic, metal and more.

VRscans is combination of a hardware-based scanning system and a software-based rendering plugin that work together to easily create material properties for creating realistic renderings without the usual workflow of texture maps and tweaking shader settings. This enables a high level of accuracy for visualizing real-world materials in renders.

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