I created an exterior render with Sketchup + Vray! / THIS is how

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Night Image Breakdown
0:37 Landscape Breakdown
1:45 HDRI and Lights
2:33 Assets
3:06 Render Settings
3:18 VFB Editing
4:26 Photoshop Post Production
5:08 Learn more photoshop
6:37 Camera Raw Filter
7:51 Results

Recently I decided to turn a night image I had done for a daily challenge into a day render. There were a few challenges and many things I had to correct, and I want to show you how I did it, some important things I learned along the way, and critical elements to consider if you're going to do this. Grab a cup of coffee, and let's start!
I made the original image using a model completely done in SketchUp. Assets like trees, grass, people, and even textures were from the Chaos Cosmos library, and I rendered them in their entirety in Vray. If you want to test out vray, a link will be below to download it.
The original 3d model uses a mountainous topography created with the sand box tool and some scatter groups that will make the grass look varied and imperfect and with some flowers to give it a splash of color.

[anthony]

Niceeee, I’ve been using VRAY for sketch up for about a year now and I’m really liking it so far. Could you do a video of your process within sketch up like making the actual 3d model from scratch? I would love to see someone else’s workflow vs mine, it would help a lot!

[yourubeyourube]

Loved the video, as always. Your work is so good... Could you maybe do a tutorial of vray settings? I try to render but is never good, I always have problems with light and time for rendering as well as quality

[numbzober]

love you sir, as always U give me so much inspiration

[oscardelacruz]

1:05 If sketchup was faster, for me it would be the best 3D software, but with that slowness and lag it is very very heavy, it is the only reason why I do not use it, not to mention the fact that everything has to be proxy so that the software does not go crazy.

[Mo_Shawa]

Would appreciate if the resources used in the video are shared..

[ayogaramsai]

If you set-up vray lightmix before itself then you don’t need to do whole lighting setup

[UnrealVisualStudio]

may i know your computer's speech ?

[ejsketch]

I would like to ask what plug ins you use in trees?

[Ana]

This is just trees proxy thats all🌲 lol

[wetiot]

The man in your image is too tall. You have about an 8'0" tall person in your image.

[MrMadvillan]

why not just learn a proper poly modeler?

[mrCetus]

Niceeee, I’ve been using VRAY for sketch up for about a year now and I’m really liking it so far. Could you do a video of your process within sketch up like making the actual 3d model from scratch? I would love to see someone else’s workflow vs mine, it would help a lot!