Chaos Group | V-Ray for SketchUp

Differences:
• Easy to use: Easy to learn and use, V-Ray for SketchUp is designed to get you up and running right away.
• Quality: With V-Ray you can get the highest quality renders directly in SketchUp.
• Power: V-Ray gives you the power to render everything from your quick design models to your largest and most detailed 3D models.
• speed: Render fast, design faster. With V-Ray for SketchUp, you wait less and be more creative.
• Creative control: Focus on design with a full suite of creative tools for lighting, shading and rendering.
• Industrial standard: 92 of the world's top 100 architecture firms render with V-Ray every day.

Key Features
• Dual engine performance: V-Ray has two powerful rendering engines. With CPU and GPU acceleration options, you can choose the fastest for your hardware.
• Interactive rendering: Render interactively as you design. Fine-tune lights, materials and cameras and see results instantly.
• Global illumination: Render photorealistic rooms and interiors with V-Ray's powerful and fast global illumination.
• Delicate lights: Render natural and artificial lighting with a wide selection of ready-made light types.
• Environmental lighting: Light up your landscapes with a single high-dynamic range image (HDRI) of its surroundings.
• Physical sun & sky: Simulate realistic daylight for all times and locations.
• Real world cameras: Work like a photographer with controls for exposure, white balance, depth of field and more.
• Physical materials: Create good-looking materials that look just like the real thing.
• Detailed textures: Create realistic and unique materials using any texture map or one of V-Ray's ready-made procedural textures.
• Proxy objects: Detail your projects by adding highly complex objects such as grass, trees, cars with memory efficient proxy models.
• Render elements: Render your scene in individual passes for more artistic control in your image editing software.
• Frame buffer: Track your rendering history and fine-tune color, exposure and more directly in V-Ray's frame buffer.
• Network rendering: Render multiple images individually or simultaneously using all the computing power of your network connection.
• V-Ray Landscape export: Share your V-Ray 3 files for ready-to-render SketchUp complete with a V-Ray 3.4 or higher application.

What's new
• New UI: Redesigned designer-friendly UI for faster workflow.
• Material library: Choose from over 200 drag and drop materials to speed up your future project.
• V-Ray Swarm: Simple and fast to use, powerful, scalable distributed rendering system.
• Denoiser: Automatically removes noise and reduces rendering time by up to 50%.
• One-click VR: Render VR-ready content for popular VR titles.
• Section cuts: Get quick cutaways and section renders with ease thanks to the V-Ray Clipper.
• Atmospheric perspective: Quickly add realistic atmospheric depth and haze.
• Grass: Create realistic grass, fabrics and carpets with V-Ray Fur.