V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp Service Pack 2 Now Available

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V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp Service Pack 2 is now available for download. This free update is available now for current V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp artists.

What’s New in V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp SP2

• V-Ray Express: Users can easily access more than 200 materials and interchangeable lighting setups to create realistic studio scenes and illuminate models faster than ever. V-Ray Express is available separately on the downloads page.
• Frame Start animation option: You can now render individual frames or ranges of frames, e.g.: 5, 100-110, 200, 352.
• Pack all V-Ray Materials: Archive your V-Ray for SketchUp materials and all external files into a single ZIP for easy sharing and back up.
• Improved support for using V-Ray Frame Buffer Channels
• Improvements and fixes to the Batch Render tool
• New and improved product documentation

Check out the full list of features in V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp SP2 and the growing list of tutorials.

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I like that V-Ray Express and it works nice to get quick access to the materials. But for the V-Ray Components… they are all Sketchup 2014 files and Sketchup 2013 doesn’t see any components if you’re looking for them in the component panel of Sketchup 2013.

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Am I being stupid… but I can’t see the download… its not there…

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I’m having the same problem.

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You need to login and go to the download area. There will be the 2.00.24942 version. That’s the SP2!

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I’ve opened a new thread about this SP2 about some color mapping issues but since there’s more people visiting this thread I’ll post it here as wel. What happens is when I tick correct LDR and correct RGB in the color mapping rollout, using the default settings, I get a very bright image and wrongly gamma corrected.I want to know if someone is experiencing the same issue. I’m not sure if it’s a bug, or a problem in my machines or even if it’s a normal thing and there will be a different setup. I’ve been using the beta’s and it seems that this thing happened after they changed how environment calculation is made.
It’s been a while I’ve been trying some answers about this…Any expert or the guys from chaos group to answer?

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Cheers, was looking for the dates…

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Edit - same issue as others with older version of sketchup.

A workaround is to just download the free version of Sketchup Make, and save all the components to the relevant version - seems to work for me with 2013.

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Just installed the V-Ray 2.0 for SketchUp SP2 and now Sketchup will not run at all. Crashes on startup…

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Thanks, I’ll try that. Bit sad they deliver 2014 components with a 2013 download of V-Ray for Sketchup. If it works I’ll put the files at my server as download for others.

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I just downloaded and installed Vray Express for Sketchup but I can’t find it. Do I have to activate it or something within Sketchup?

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Me to, i have installed VRay Express, but nothing in sketchUp (pro 2013)!
it’s empty in start/program/chaosgroup/vray express for sketchup.

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The materials and components are just inside your normal material/components panel within Sketchup 2013. Took me also a while to figure this out, lack of documentation :wink:

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Thanks OzBoz, I was expecting a toolbar.

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Ok , it’s fine…
In fact I was looking for a tool bar…

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Same here :slight_smile: They could just make a little .txt file within the zip-file for a little explanation. Quess we’re not the only three looking for Express :slight_smile:

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V-Ray Express SU 2013 compatible components

I created a zip file for the V-Ray Express components and made them also compatible with Sketchup 2013. No time to test them yet but at least they appear in SU 2013.

You can download them at: http://vray.fizion.nl/vray\_components\_su\_2013\_2014.zip

The files are located at this location in Windows 7: C:\Program Files (x86)\SketchUp\SketchUp 2013\Components

If the Chaos Group thinks I’m spreading files illegally, let me know and I delete this file.

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Thank you!