V-Ray 3.0

agentorange · 7 Jul 2016, 10:45

If you came to the 3D Basecamp, you'd have seen that it's not quite at all

Wish I could have been there but couldn't afford the flights....

Will just wait and see....looking forward to the outcome

imabzeous · 15 Jul 2016, 12:26

Oh please just give us a sneak peak

Mousa_SA · 23 Jul 2016, 13:20

In the Chaos Group Forum they mentioned that V-ray 3 for Sketchup and V-ray Rhino will be the same, so if anyone is searching for a sneak peak check this Video :

and This link :
https://www.facebook.com/chaosgroup/photos/?tab=album%26amp;album_id=10153934568692663

And from I noticed in the Chaos Group Forum V-ray 3 for Sketchup will contain this Features :
1-V-ray Fur.
2-V-ray clipping sections
3-Fog.
4-Objects properties for smoothing objects.
5-Up to 30 times faster for parsing time.
6-Carpaint Materials .
7-V-ray is not affecting the loading time when opening sketchup Files specially for the large ones.
8-Denoiser in the final release.
9-V-ray cloud !
10-Simple UI for controlling rendering quality.
11-New UI for Materials.
12-A lot of new V-ray Shaders.
13-Light Lister.
14-New Frame Buffer Features.
15-VR rendering.
16-More and More and more !!!.

And I also have a surprise For V-ray Sketchup Users Will be Launched with V-ray 3 !
Stay tuned
http://www.sketchuparchive.com

dbrhoten · 29 Jul 2016, 16:35

Soooo, if you couldn't/didn't go to basecamp, just switch to another renderer, cause you don't deserve to know anything? Is that ChaosGroup's message to users?

imabzeous · 6 Aug 2016, 09:17

https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/VRAYSKETCHUP

majid · 15 Aug 2016, 04:48

Very impressive!

majid · 30 Oct 2016, 08:17

can not waiting to see the new version anymore!

TedVitale_CG · 4 Nov 2016, 19:13

No more waiting! Go sign up for the public beta here: https://www.chaosgroup.com/vray/sketchup

Lots of new features, and its loads faster.

majid · 7 Jan 2017, 05:44

Ted, if it is officially out?

andybot · 9 Jan 2017, 15:50

@majid said:

Ted, if it is officially out?

It's available for anyone to try. It's still in beta, so definitely a few kinks in there.

luziusalbin · 8 Mar 2017, 10:00

Today's the day:

https://www.vray.com/vray-for-sketchup/

cadmunkey · 10 Mar 2017, 12:37

@luziusalbin said:

Today's the day:

https://www.vray.com/vray-for-sketchup/

Does anyone know how much it is to upgrade from an old version (I think 2, 2009) to the new 3.5?
I emailed them but havent got a reply.

andybot · 10 Mar 2017, 14:26

@cadmunkey said:

@luziusalbin said:

Today's the day:

https://www.vray.com/vray-for-sketchup/

Does anyone know how much it is to upgrade from an old version (I think 2, 2009) to the new 3.5?
I emailed them but havent got a reply.

You could check with your reseller (Many web-pages have upgrade info up now, for example: http://trinity3d.com/vray-sketchup-plugin/).

Also, note that it's 3.0, not 3.5 (Yes, it's half a version behind.)

Also, just a note about an earlier post - you will need to rebuild your vray library if you are going to Vray for Sketchup 3.0 right now, since most old vray materials do not convert.

cadmunkey · 10 Mar 2017, 15:00

Thanks Andy, I will have to dig out my old invoice to see exactly which version I do have currently.

cadmunkey · 14 Mar 2017, 17:24

OK, so I finally got an email back about upgrading which I'm entitled to do thankfully for the reduced price. But I am required to send them some code from my Vray dongle in order to reprogram it. The downside is I don't even have a dongle?!
Does anyone else that is using Vray for Sketchup get a dongle when they purchased it?
I sent an email back to them notifying them of this but have got no reply.

valerostudio · 15 Mar 2017, 00:26

If you have 2.0 you should have a dongle. That was their only licensing system. How were you running 2.0 without one?

cadmunkey · 15 Mar 2017, 09:37

@valerostudio said:

If you have 2.0 you should have a dongle. That was their only licensing system. How were you running 2.0 without one?

I bought Vray back in 2009 so no dongle. Looks like I cant upgrade then, what a weird system.

cadmunkey · 15 Mar 2017, 10:23

Just to round this up, had a different reseller email me just now confirming that I cannot upgrade from v1.49 due to the dongle. Bit angry that my usual reseller nearly duped me into spending $250 for something I wouldn't have been able to use!

horsinho · 15 Mar 2017, 11:46

I'm confused about Chaosgroup resellers policy, is it absolutely necessary to buy their software based on geographic location? Why such a strange system, in 2017, instead of simply buying directly to Chaosgroup?

I mailed my country's reseller with several questions, but no reply.

cadmunkey · 15 Mar 2017, 11:49

@horsinho said:

I mailed my country's reseller with several questions, but no reply.

Had to same problem here. Most have just failed to respond. I am certain Chaos group are missing out on a ton of sales by not allowing to purchase direct.