Feature Spotlights

Bring your Enscape projects inside V-Ray 6 and take them to the highest level of photorealism. V-Ray for SketchUp reads Enscape materials, lights, and compatible assets and allows you to build on your work by fine-tuning components or substituting them with hi-res equivalents.  

Learn more about the Escape to V-Ray bridge: https://www.chaos.com/enscape-to-v-ray

Easily share your work with your team and clients. Simply invite them to review your images and share their feedback. Speed up reviews and get your projects done faster.

Learn more about Chaos Cloud Collaboration at https://www.chaos.com/cloud-collabora

Learn how to add the right clouds for your scene using the procedural clouds in V-Ray Sun & Sky system. Control their type, variety, density, and height, and animate beautiful timelapses for your sun studies.

Learn how to improve the precision of material and procedural effect placement using the V-Ray Distance texture. Control the spread depending on the proximity to desired objects in your composition.

See the power and ease of use of V-Ray Enmesh — the perfect tool when you need to create tiled geometric patterns. Fabrics, fences, and panels are simple to make and customize at no extra memory cost.

Fine-tune the scale and add depth to the environment of your project when using image-based lighting with this new V-Ray Dome Light mode.

In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to add realistic stickers to curved objects and blend surface and decal bumps. Discover how to leverage the cylindrical projection and additive bump options within V-Ray Decal to achieve impressive results with ease.

Enrich your projects with even more readymade patterns. In this video, we show you how you can browse, import, and assign Enmesh presets from Chaos Cosmos to your projects. Choose from a variety of patterns and see how you can customize the pattern size and height and adjust them to your liking.

This video shows how you can create and render cutaway animations while respecting object visibility.

Learn all about the new V-Ray Frame buffer capabilities. The new Chromatic Aberration effect adds color distortion similar to real-life lens imperfections, giving your projects subtle realism. Improve navigation by effortlessly organizing layers into folders within the stack. Additionally, you can swiftly generate simple backgrounds using the new plain color feature in the Background layer.

Learn more about our updated V-Ray Scatter, which allows you to easily fill your scenes with grass, trees, rocks, and light sources in a few clicks. The updated Scatter tool introduces new scattering modes along grids, curves, and within volumes, as well as area modifiers so you can limit the scatter area. Plus, you’ll see more transformation settings for finer control over your scattered objects.