Photographic Rendering with VRay for SketchUp
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Turn your 3D modeling into photographic realism with this superb guide for SketchUp users. Through concrete examples, screenshots, and images, you'll learn the practical side to photographic rendering using V-Ray. Key Features Clear, step-by-step instructions that teach you how to use the most important tools needed to create photographic renders in V-Ray Implement the steps effectively with the help of the SketchUp scene files provided Become a better artist by becoming familiar with important lighting and material backgrounds backed up by theory Book Description Every Sketch Up user wants to present their designs in the best possible light. What better way to bring them to life than to present them in a genuinely photographic manner? Although the V-Ray render engine has been available to SketchUp users for a good number of years now, the release of the 2.0 Version takes the production of photographic renders in SketchUp to a whole new level. Using the V-Ray for SketchUp rendering engine through with clear, step-by-step instructions and companion graphics, this guide will give you everything you need to get started. This book has been designed to progressively introduce you to all the V-Ray tools you will need to produce photographic renders using V-Ray. The journey begins with basics of camera composition, lighting, texturing, and then rendering an interior scene using the V-Ray engine. Using the scene files provided, we will learn how to set up lighting rigs for both daytime and nighttime interior shots, as well as seeing how we can make good use of V-Ray's procedural day-lighting system on exteriors. As a render will only be as believable as the component parts, we will learn the texturing system in V-Ray and how to use a variety of materials, maps, and layers to produce realistic surface properties for our geometry. Before producing our final output, we will want to see how we can use the variety of quality control settings in V-Ray, including the Global Illumination and Image Sampling settings to produce a high level of quality for our project. Add the finishing touches with some compositing and post-production techniques to bring out the full potential of the work you have done. What you will learn Create and control interior sunlight using a V-Ray Spotlight light object Discover how to set up Skylight in a variety of ways, including making use of V-Ray's Rectangle and Dome light types Work with interior nighttime lighting and real-world light energy values using V-Ray's IES lights Produce believable surface properties using V-Ray's material and map system Compose and render a shot correctly with V-Ray's camera and output controls How to make use of V-Ray's camera and output controls to compose and render a shot correctly Become a better lighting artist in V-Ray by understanding some extremely important lighting theory Review: BRILLIANT !! The best book so far on VRAY for Sketchup. - Very clear explanation of the processes involved especially if you follow the down loadable exercises. I strongly recommend this for anyone who wants to fully exploit the full potential of VRay for Sketchup. Review: DECENT PURCHASE - The material is sufficiently detailed though not for beginners learning vray-SU. I would have rated this 5 stars if the images had been in colour instead of black & white. Though the colored versions are available for download from the book's website. Decent purchase!
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| Customer Reviews | 3.8 out of 5 stars 23 Reviews |
J**P
BRILLIANT !! The best book so far on VRAY for Sketchup.
Very clear explanation of the processes involved especially if you follow the down loadable exercises. I strongly recommend this for anyone who wants to fully exploit the full potential of VRay for Sketchup.
A**A
DECENT PURCHASE
The material is sufficiently detailed though not for beginners learning vray-SU. I would have rated this 5 stars if the images had been in colour instead of black & white. Though the colored versions are available for download from the book's website. Decent purchase!
S**O
Absolutely Fantastic!
Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp At first I was rather skeptical about this book, I was always interested CG rendering and 3D design and this book seemed like a good direction to take. I really enjoyed the hands on approach, make sure you download the code documents in order to follow along. While SketchUp is free for educational uses as mentioned on their website it is worthy to note it didn't feel limited in any way compared to the paid version. Setup was pretty easy under Windows 8 and everything went without a hiccup. Chapter 1 set the pace and I was already sold on this book, then I was wondering why are there so many chapters on lighting! Well from my experience with 3D game techniques it's really hard to mimic light! So for me the three chapters were needed but also very well written, from the daytime scene to night and final touch ups, what an awesome transformation. If you are not into math you should really get into it for this, light is very tricky and in order to understand it you will need some working level of math on a higher level. If you're anything like me that is very limited but your willing to keep pushing forward until you understand it, don't feel bad I had to go over this a few times. I did get my ah-ha moment though. I think it is extremely important to mention the quality control chapter, it has got to be one of the best things I've seen since toasted sliced bread! DO NOT SKIP IT, if you really want your work to shine take the extra steps to perfect it. No shock that you will be adjusting the lighting quality here again! I would give this book a 10/10 or 100/100 if I could, I know it isn't going to take my hand and walk me down the path of using SketchUp overnight, and that isn't why I purchased this book. I wanted to see what goes into the "behind the scenes" with CG level animations and rendering, this book didn't disappoint me. The material was covered well and I felt like I was making progress, don't feel bad if you tinker around with the settings and divert from the book. I find it sticks in my mind better if I go a bit off course! Publisher: [...]
J**W
Good text, poor imagery. You really have to do the exercises as lessons..
Good info in the text, clearly explained. Suffers from poor photography / screenshots reproduced in grainy black and white with indiscernible differences as the author attempts to point out progress through screenshots. You have to do the work with the model on screen to glean the knowledge herein.
I**Z
Older book does not match up with newer versions of VRay
This was written in 2014. I bought it in 2018. VRAY is set up completely different now and labelled differently. I am spending way too much time trying to figure out how the various fields match from program to book. Bummer..the book seems lime it was written well. Wait for an updated version.
T**G
its black and white, why?
it's okay,
R**S
One Star
If I knew before was not sharp, colorful images, would not have bought
A**R
Great book so far
Great book so far. Only got through chapter 1 so far. Easy to follow and well explained. Looking forward to working my way through the rest of the chapters. Reason for 4 stars is because the pictures in the book are black and white. Which is a bit strange and a real shame.
A**R
... a photo realistic rendering book to be sold with poor quality black and white images at this price - ...
For a photo realistic rendering book to be sold with poor quality black and white images at this price - its a bit pants. By and large the images are so worthless they just as well could not be there
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