If you are currently using any version older than V-Ray 6, the upgrade to is akin to swapping a watercolor brush for a digital camera. The speed improvements to parsing and IPR remove the "waiting game" from design, while Light Mix 2.0 and Chaos Scatter turn technical rendering into an artistic playground.
The single installer detects all installed SketchUp versions automatically. You can selectively enable V-Ray per version during install. V-Ray 7.00.01 for SketchUp 2021-2024
Go to Extensions > V-Ray . If you see the menu, the installation was successful. If you are currently using any version older
This eliminates the need to browse Poliigon or Quixel for 80% of standard materials. Expect this feature to be fully functional by the end of the year via a hotfix. You can selectively enable V-Ray per version during install
V-Ray 7.00.01 for SketchUp 2021–2024 offers improved material authoring, faster lighting workflows, and more flexible rendering modes (GPU/hybrid) that streamline look development and production rendering. Best results come from combining optimized assets, node-based materials, and appropriate render settings matched to the available hardware.
Scatter allows users to distribute thousands of instances (trees, grass patches, people) across surfaces using rules (slope, altitude, proximity). Crucially, Scatter in V-Ray 7.00.01 uses memory-efficient instancing and generates proxies on the fly. A SketchUp model that would otherwise freeze at 200MB can now support 2 million grass blades and 5,000 trees, all managed through V-Ray’s render-time generation. The scatter objects are not imported into SketchUp’s geometry list; they remain as lightweight V-Ray objects. For SketchUp 2021 users on older hardware, this is transformative—it unlocks detailed landscapes without upgrading computers.