On the older builds it felt like the denoiser was running after each resolve. Now you can render, pause, check the denoise, turn it off and resume rendering again. It’s noticeably faster.

Denoise runs on the CPU, so that's a bit slower. In the builds before this one, once the denoiser kicked in, you couldn't disable it anymore without restarting the render. Now you can actually enable/disable denoise on the fly. For those who don't know how to do that, it's this here:

Very cool render! Love the atmosphere.

Is this global illumination or approx. global illumination? How long did it cook?

Hey, Rayscaper users!

Another release with some bug fixes. Thanks for reporting all those bugs!

Rayscaper 0.9.64 Beta is available in the SketchUcation store. As
always, I recommend upgrading to the latest version.

What Changed?

• Fix weird artifacts in the interactive render viewport.
• Fix the upside-down images when saving.
• Add transmission support for the PBR material. This makes it possible to create glass or liquid materials with the PBR material.
• Fix a regression when renaming light components. Rayscaper lights should now correctly use the name of their SketchUp light component again.
• Fix glass rendering, when multiple glass surfaces overlapped, Rayscaper would render them too dark.
• Fix the render timer in the viewport. It will stop counting when the render is paused or finished.

Help Me Build the Community

If you like Rayscaper, please share your renders (final or work-in-progress, it doesn’t matter)! This is motivating
and helps me showcase its capabilities to new users.

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Happy Rendering!

@rv1974 I'm not sure if you are trolling or not... love to see some of yours.

@Gus-R I always love your renders! They demonstrate outstanding craftsmanship and skill. Don't let them grind you down.

Hey mgash,

What version of Rayscaper did you download? We only support SketchUp 2025 since version 0.9.44 and higher. [1]

Regards,
Thomas

[1] Refer to https://rayscaper.com/faq/installation/#method-2-via-the-sketchup-extension-manager on how to check your version number.

@jo-ke Stunning results! True craftsmanship.

The next release is coming soon. I was working on a lot of internal stuff in the engine. In the future, I plan to do more frequent releases, as they give me a tighter feedback cycle and make the process less lonely.

To clarify, Rayscaper is commercial software. A license costs $99 or $74.99 for SketchUcation users.

You can use Rayscaper for free, but then it has a watermark over the render. I removed the limitation on rendering size, as I didn't want to spend my energy on crippling the experience in the free version. I still want you to have a great experience, even with the free version, in the hope that that can convince you to support the work and buy a license (which you both did, so thanks for that!). And if you don't want to buy the license, that's cool too.

@tuna1957

I'm developing an affordable alternative for Twilight: https://sketchucation.com/plugin/2677-rayscaper. I'd love to hear your thoughts if you've tried it yet. Even if you think it sucks, it's valuable input for me on how to improve.

Cheers,
Thomas

@L-i-am said in Many projects:

I especially like the B&W bathroom, looks like a photo

I think the B&W room bathroom is a photo.

Despite the gremlins, nice render. Working on chasing down the gremlins.

Back from a holiday, but whatever Rich says makes sense

Hey Mike, great to see you picking up Rayscaper again! Beautiful car, and great render!

@Krass Great to hear that! Still more good stuff coming.

Nice Render!

I'm working hard to get that next update out! This one is taking a bit more time than expected. Sometimes, I go into the deep end with making changes to the software, and then it takes a while to stabilize it. But I'm taking all those bug reports very seriously.

Cheers!
Thomas

Hey, Rayscaper users!

Another release!

Rayscaper 0.9.50 Beta is available in the SketchUcation store. More fixes and improvements. As always, I recommend upgrading to the latest version.

What Changed?

• Bring back the transparency shadows option for the glass material. This option makes the glass material invisible to
  shadow rays, allowing direct light to pass through the glass. This is useful for allowing direct light through glass
  in indoor scenes.
• Add extra logging to help diagnose failed installations.
• Cyrillic glyph support: The user interface now supports Cyrillic characters.
• Improved pixel filtering: Fixed an issue where edges appeared overly jagged with the default settings.
• Enhanced texture sliders: Scale and translation sliders now have more intuitive ranges.

Help me build the community

If you like Rayscaper, please share your renders (final or work-in-progress, it doesn't matter)! This is motivating and will help me showcase its capabilities to new users.

Happy Rendering!

@rv1974 Do you know if Chaos Vantage is path-traced? Or is it more like game engine realism, like D5, Enscape, or TwinMotion?

I like it!

@Mike-Amos That's a good pointer, it does seem to get light emitting properties when using transparent PNGs. Will look into this.

@L-i-am said in Twinmotion render:

Chaos is Billed yearly AU $1 080 so USD $680

That's probably V-RAY, I couldn't find a price for Chaos Arena.