vray sketchup exterior lighting tutorial

This allowed me to match the two images in a perfect way!įinally, I matched the colors in Photoshop, just playing a bit with curves & levels. So it was important finding a background image with the same light direction of my render.

I tried to match the perspective in 3ds Max of this image:Īnd then in Photoshop with layer masks, and some tips and tricks from the 5SRW Course I was able to merge them together.įollowing the course, I learned how important is the consistency in lighting: this makes real and credible our images. It was inconvenient to model the whole haze part and so I had an image in mind that I wanted to composite and merge it with the original rendering. 15 different types of trees were used and distributed on specific surfaces and splines to create the forest and to fill the background Three different shrubs were distributed on the surface to add another level of detail It was then textured using ForestColor with a texture on a surface Two different models, a dense one and light one to create variety and empty spots in the grass through using the distribution map in Forest pack pro.

The vegetation was handled through using Forest Pack Pro and the scale of the rendering helped in separating the vegetation to 3 different layersįirst layer – the grass. Here the result with a V-Ray default materialĪfter completed the step-2 of the method (lighting exteriors/interiors) I was sure to be on the right track I just changed the Size Multiplier to 3 to get smoother shadows: In this case, an angle between 80 and 90 degrees was the best option for this exterior lighting. I studied the illumination, looking for the best angle camera/sun in order to get the best ‘ Chiaroscuro‘ possible, as I learned during the Course. Cassa Provenza-Vray For Sketchup Exterior rendering Tutorial.PDF. I used the V-Ray Sun + Sky with the default values, but most important I followed the lighting techniques. Align the position of the Vray Sun close to the sun in the Dome light. Then the 3d model was exported to 3ds Max, where it was converted to an editable poly for more details:Īt the light balance stage, the light system I used was pretty simple.

I learned Revit by myself, and with a good model, the ‘photography’ with V-Ray become very realistic. The roof of the model was originally created in Autodesk Revit conceptual massing environment, through lofting between different 3d splines which was based on 2D sketches. * To know more about 5SRW methodology, read the Ciro Sannino’s interview on the official Chaos Gruop website The powerful system I learned helped me also in focusing more on the Artistic and Photographic side, using this knowledge to master the software part. Just last year I found the 5SRW method for V-Ray and I have to say that it helped me a lot to structure my workflow. Hi, I’m Mohammad Qtaishat, 23 years old from Jordan and I’m studying architecture at the University of Jordan.Ĭurrently, in the beginning of my fourth year, my passion for CGI started 4 years ago when I was a first-year student.

Vray sketchup exterior lighting tutorial