What's New in V-Ray

This page provides information regarding the latest release of V-Ray for SketchUp.

V-Ray 6 Update 2 includes numerous enhancements to improve user experience and streamline workflows. V-Ray now provides access to an improved Scatter tool, .vrscene imports from various applications, and faster job submissions to Chaos Cloud.

Official release

Date: May 28, 2024

Latest Build: V-Ray 6, Update 2, hotfix 4 (6.20.04)

Download V-Ray 6.2.4 for SketchUp

See Release Notes for all previous V-Ray versions here.

RELEASE NOTES FOR V-RAY 6, UPDATE 2, HOTFIX 4

V-Ray 6, Update 2, hotfix 4 (6.20.04)

Official release

Date - May 28, 2024

Improvements & bugfixes

The V-Ray scene (.vrscene) export no longer requires a license
An issue, leading to errors when a Component containing a V-Ray modifier is created while the Scatter preview is enabled, is resolved
An issue, leading to errors when a SketchUp Tag is renamed or when toggling its visibility while the Scatter preview is enabled, is resolved
An issue, preventing the Proxy Mesh from replacing the original object on Proxy export in specific situations, is resolved
An issue, leading to errors when Light Gen is started before V-Ray is activated, is resolved
An issue, preventing the material application to a SketchUp Tag (Layer), is resolved
SketchUp no longer crashes on exit after saving a component containing a V-Ray modifier
An issue, leading to errors when deleting a Scatter while interactive rendering is running, is resolved
An issue, leading to errors when loading .vropt files, is resolved
An issue, causing SketchUp crash upon scene activation with specific projects, is resolved
An issue, causing a crash when attempting to render or edit specific materials, is resolved
Fixed a crash caused by the viewport preview of the Camera Clipping Plane
An issue, causing a crash when modifying Cosmos materials in specific ways, is resolved
V-Ray GPU: System Memory for Textures implemented. It lowers the GPU memory usage significantly by offloading textures to system memory with little impact on performance
V-Ray GPU: An issue, preventing Mesh lights rendering in animations, is resolved
V-Ray GPU: There is no longer a crash when starting a render, while the CUDA devices selection specified in the Asset Editor differs from the global one (defined by the GPU Device Selection tool and stored in the VRAY_GPU_PLATFORMS environment variable)
V-Ray GPU: An issue preventing the material Raytrace Properties from working correctly is resolved
A warning is logged instead of an error when the V-Ray UI loses connection to the host application
The proper function of the V-Ray UI is no longer prevented by specific system proxy configurations