Rendering with V-RayV-Ray for SketchUp

V-Ray for SketchUp

Supported Rendering Features

This page provides information on the rendering features supported in V-Ray for SketchUp.

Last updated 1 September 2026

This page provides information on the rendering features supported in V-Ray for SketchUp.

Supported Features

Main Render features

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Interactive rendering
Progressive image sampler
Bucket image sampler
Resumable rendering
V-Ray Denoiser
NVIDIA AI Denoiser1
Intel Open Image Denoise		(always calculated by CPU)
Viewport rendering (VPR)
Viewport region rendering
Batch rendering
Cloud rendering
Batch render in Cloud
Distributed rendering via Swarm

Other Render features

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
VRayLensEffects (VFB)
Antialiasing		PARTIAL Lanczos, Area and Box filter
Adaptive Lights
VFB
Render Elements
Anisotropy
Aerial Perspective
Environment Fog
Outlines
Photon Mapped Caustics8
Post Effect Color Corrections
GPU Memory Management
Firefly Removal	PARTIAL Bucket Sampler

Camera

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
VRayPhysicalCamera
Camera Depth of Field
Camera motion blur
Stereoscopic
VR Cubemap
VR Spherical Panorama
Automatic Exposure
Automatic White Balance
Film sensitivity (ISO)
Aperture (F-Number)
Shutter Speed (1/s)
Vignetting
Vertical Tilt
Bokeh

Lights

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
SunLight		PARTIAL (Affect Diffuse and Specular controls not supported)
Rectangle Light		PARTIAL (Decay control not supported)
Sphere Light		PARTIAL (Decay control not supported)
Spot Light		PARTIAL (Affect Diffuse and Specular controls and Inverse cube decay not supported)
IES Light
Omni Light		PARTIAL (Affect Diffuse/Specular controls and Inverse cube decay not supported)
Mesh Light		PARTIAL (Texture map and Decay control not supported)
Dome Light
Luminaire Light		(initial support)

Global Illumination Methods

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Brute Force
Light Cache
Irradiance Map
GI Caustics

Environment Background Mapping

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Spherical mapping
Mirror ball mapping
Angular mapping
Cubic mapping
Screen mapping
Color/Texture Multipliers

Geometry

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Triangle meshes
VRayProxy
Alembic via proxy
Subdivisions
Displacement
VRayFur
Infinite plane
VRayClipper
V-Ray Scene
V-Ray Scatter
V-Ray Decal
V-Ray Enmesh
V-Ray Gaussian Splat

Materials

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Blend
Car Paint
Emissive		PARTIAL (without Emit on Back Side; Color*Opacity always on)
Generic (V-Ray Material)		(without Roughness, Refraction Glossiness, Fog Scattering, and Quick Caustics)
Override		PARTIAL (without Environment)
Two Sided		PARTIAL (without Multiply By Front diffuse; Force Single Sided always on)
Wrapper		PARTIAL (without Ignore Objects in Secondary, Caustics Affect)
Subsurface Scattering
Bump
VRscan
Hair
Outline Override
Multi Material
SketchUp Texture Colorization5

Textures

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Bitmap4		(without filtering and Environment texture placement)
Color
Temperature
Gradient		(without Environment texture placement)
Sky
Color Correction
Spline Curve
Bezier Curve
Simple Mix7
Mix (Value)7
Mix (Operator)7
Mix (Map)7		(except Mix Curve)
Multi-Sub3
Tri-Planar		(only One Texture mode)
Checker		(except Environment texture placement)
Grid		(except Environment texture placement)
Tiles		(except Environment texture placement)
Cloth		(except Environment texture placement)
Leather 9		(except Environment texture placement)
Bulge		(except Environment texture placement)
UVW		(without Environment)
Water 6		(without Environment)
Noise A		(except Environment texture placement)
Noise B		(except Environment texture placement)
Cellular		(except Environment texture placement)
Marble 9		(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Splat 9		(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Smoke		(except Environment texture placement)
Stucco 9		(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Rock 9		(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Granite 9		(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Speckle 9		(except Environment and 3D World texture placement)
Edges
Falloff 2
Fresnel
VRayDirt 3	(without Ignore Self Occlusion)	(without Ignore Self Occlusion)
Curvature
UVW Placement		PARTIAL (except Environment and partial support of bitmap textures)
Layered
Strand Sampler
Parallax

Render Elements

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Atmosphere
Background
Bump Normals
Caustics
Cryptomatte	(without Filtering control)
Outlines
Denoiser
Diffuse
DR Bucket
ExtraTex
Geometry Normals
Global Illumination
Lighting
Lighting Analysis		PARTIAL (Luminance only)
Light Mix
Material ID Color
Material ID Number
Material Random Color
Matte Shadow
MultiMatte
Object ID
Raw GI
Raw Light
Raw Reflection
Raw Refraction
Raw Shadows
Raw Total Light
Reflection
Reflection Filter
Refraction
Refraction Filter
Render ID
Sample Rate
Self Illumination
Shadows
Specular
Subsurface Scattering
Total Light
Z-Depth

3rd-party plugins

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Skatter
Cloud support for Skatter
Laubwerk
Cloud support for Laubwerk
Archvision RPC
Cloud support for Archvision RPC

Enscape

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU

Feature	V-Ray CPU	V-Ray GPU
Enscape lights
Enscape material keywords	PARTIAL (except Grass and Carpet materials keywords)	PARTIAL (except Grass and Carpet materials keywords)
Enscape materials	PARTIAL (except Grass and Carpet material types)	PARTIAL (except Grass and Carpet material types)
Enscape geometry assets	PARTIAL (Enscape assets provided by 3D PEOPLE are currently not supported; Enscape linked models not yet supported)	PARTIAL (Enscape assets provided by 3D PEOPLE are currently not supported; Enscape linked models not yet supported)

Footnotes

1 – The NVIDIA OptiX Denoiser requires an NVIDIA GPU device.

2 – Only some procedural textures are supported by V-Ray GPU renderer when used for Bump mapping (f.e. noise and mix maps are supported).

3 – These plug-ins are only partially supported on GPU.

4 – The playback options are currently not supported.

5 – Does not affect the material preview in the Asset Editor.

6 – Currently, Water Surface texture is supported only when used as Displacement and Bump maps. If the texture is added to other slots, it may not work or render as expected.

7 – In V-Ray 7, the Simple Mix, Mix (Value), Mix (Operator) and Mix (Map) textures are no longer available. They are replaced by the Layered texture.

8 – V-Ray GPU supports Photon map caustics except the Calculation Mode/Disk Caching and Max Density options.

Difference between V-Ray and V-Ray GPU are expected when rendering objects with opacity/translucency modifications.
GPU engine supports map channels from 0 to 15.
GPU engine only supports normal maps in tangent space.

9 – This texture behaves as baked (instead of procedural) in GPU.