V-Ray For SketchUp
V-Ray® for SketchUp is a 3D rendering software that combines real-time and photoreal rendering — all in SketchUp. From beginner to pro, Chaos® V-Ray has all the tools you need to visualize your SketchUp projects from start to finish.
See your designs in real-time.
Seeing your Sketchup designs in real-time has never been easier. Now with V-Ray Vision, you can visualize your designs in real-time while you work in SketchUp. Move around your model, apply materials, set up lights and cameras — all in a live real-time view of your scene. You can also package your V-Ray Vision result for others to experience just like you did in SketchUp.
Rendering that’s as real as it gets.
With true-to-life lights, cameras, and materials, rendering with V-Ray is as real as it gets. For any project, you can see exactly how it will look. It’s as close you can come to the real thing before it’s built.
Bring your scenes to life.
Employ our curated collection of smart assets — including high-quality models of furniture, accessories, vegetation and people — and stage your project with just a few clicks. The all-new Chaos Cosmos asset browser lets you easily drop render-ready 3D content right into your SketchUp scene.
Getting Started On Enscape
On January 19, Enscape are kicking off a new 4-part webinar series: Rendering is Like Photography. Architect, photographer, and Educator Aryan Mirfendereski will share aspects of photography that you can use to enhance the quality of your architectural visualizations. In this first session, they will look through the eye of the photographer, discuss what makes a good picture, and why images that we think are good, are actually good.
We hope you can join the enscape team! (and if you can’t, still register, and enscape send you the recording 😉).
The Chaos & Enscape 2022 Merge
We have some truly exciting news for you today!
Enscape and Chaos have announced , that they are to merge into one company.
Bringing together Enscape, a leading developer of real-time rendering and design workflow technology for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industries, and Chaos, a world leader in photorealistic rendering technology, will establish a global leader in the 3D visualization and design workflow software sectors, with a focus on the AEC, Visual Effects (VFX) and Product Design verticals.
Together we will develop and strengthen our product portfolio to create a comprehensive end-to-end visualization ecosystem to meet the evolving needs of architects, designers, and artists from diverse industries to visualize their ideas in the best way possible — from concept to completion.
Learn more about the merger in an official press release from Enscape.
Twin Motion 2022.1
Twinmotion 2022.1 offers a host of new features that make it even easier to create and share stunning visualizations and immersive experiences for architecture, construction, urban planning, and landscape design.
Some New Key Features
Path Tracer
Create final-pixel imagery comparable to offline renderings, including compromise-free global illumination, physically correct refractions, super-sampled anti-aliasing, and much more, with the new Path Tracer.
This DXR-accelerated*, physically accurate progressive rendering mode can be easily enabled in the viewport with a single button push, or used to output stunning still images and panoramas, right from Twinmotion, in minutes. It can also be used to render orthographic plan views with shadows.
Twinmotion Cloud Early Access for all!
Share your projects with any stakeholder anywhere in the world! With just a computer, tablet, or smartphone and a web browser, users can view and interact with a presentation or panorama running on a high-end GPU in the cloud. With this release, this feature is now available to all users as part of the Early Access program, including educational licensees
and trialists.
In addition, new Panorama Sets enable you to curate specific points of view for a review, rather than providing a fully navigable scene. It’s also now easier to share links and update presentations.
Thousands of new assets
We’ve added two more categories from Quixel Megascans, bringing over 200 new 3D plant species, each with multiple variants, and over 2,000 new decals to Twinmotion. We’ve also added the ability to select which variants from each 3D plant set are used.
In addition, there are nearly 150 new interior and exterior furniture assets. Meanwhile, it’s now possible to use custom Reflectivity, Glow, Bump, and Metalness textures with both standard decals and the new Quixel Decals library.
HDRI Skydome and Skies library
Used in conjunction with the Path Tracer, the new Skydome feature enables you to create more realistic skies and lighting for convincing exterior shots. We’ve provided an extensive library of 285 skies to select from, or you can use your own custom HDRI texture.
