Latest V-ray for Sketchup Release on Pre-Order!

by m | 9 z on Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:17 pm

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The new version of V-Ray for SketchUp will include all the great features from the previous version, in addition to some exciting new upgrades:
• NEW! Ward Reflection Shader Type
• NEW! More than 10 new Procedural Textures, including Dirt (to create ambient occlusion per material)
• NEW! Ambient Occlusion!
• NEW! IES Lights and Spotlights
• NEW! Material Layer Arrangement
• NEW! Faster Parsing Times
• NEW! Support for SketchUp Transparancy and Alpha Transparancy
• True raytraced reflections and refractions
• Glossy reflections and refractions
• Indirect Illumination (global illumination, global lighting)
• Area shadows (soft shadows). Includes box and sphere emitters
• True HDRI support. Includes support of proper texture coordinate handling for both cubic and angular maps. Map your images directly without distortions or cropping.
• Fully multithreaded raytracing engine
• Native SketchUp materials supported and integrated into V-Ray Materials
• Antialiasing. Includes fixed, simple 2-level and adaptive approaches.
• Reusable irradiance maps (save and load support). Incremental sampling for fly- through animations.
• Displacement
• V-Ray Material Editor with Material Preview
• V-Ray Sun and Sky
• V-Ray Physical Camera
• Depth-Of-Field camera effect.
• Distributed Rendering allowing a single image to be process over up to 10 machines
• Per Material GI, Background, Reflection, and Refraction
• V-Ray Two-Sided Material for easy creation of thin translucency
• Caustics
• Animation Support

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