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Basic Vray Sketchup Tutorial Series 1 by Nomeradona
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I really want to influence everyone to dive with visualization. I know the feeling of being new with it, you dont know where to start. In
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One of the common mistake in learning VRAY SketchUp is adjusting all the dials at the same time without knowing what the dials Free SU models (10)
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the way, my name is Nomer Adona, I have been using this software since its beta phase with SketchUp, I believe I am one of the
guys who started using it when it was announced. If you want to see how I began with, check this Blog Entry. Five years ago I ran
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at many pitfalls, learning was rather slow due to the fact the VRAY SketchUp Manual was not even made, there were no tutorials,
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7. Affect Shadows:

In order for the shadow to showed and pass the glazed material, we need to tick "Affect shadow", If you want the fog color to affect
the light cast, then tick "Affect Alpha".
Here is the render, the shadow is now showing. Notice the edges of the shadow they are really sharp.

8. Soft Shadows

Soft shadows appear more realistic than sharp shadows. In order to do that let us go to the Environment Tab. Click the "M" on the
left of GI color.

Once the "M" was clicked, another tab will appear. Notice in default setting, "Text sky" is loaded. In order to achieve soft shadow,
we need to increase the size of the Sun.. Change the Sun size from 1.0 (default) to 6.0. I always use between 2.5-3.5. But in this
tutorial let us use 6.0 to see the effect. To achieve much smoother shadow, you need to increased the Subdiision multiplier. I put 16
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Here is the render, notice the shadow is softer, but take note, the rendering time also increased.

9. Additional Vray Rectangular light

I feel the light entering the room is not enough, some increased the sun intensity. But I wont suggest that because increasing it
usually causes some burn highlights. Instead, I recommend adding additional "invisible" Vray Rectangular light outside the window.

Click the Vray Rectangular light icon.

Create a rectangular face, same size as the window, then move this face around 10-15 cm from the window. If you are using one
sided, be sure the positive side is facing the interior. Now let put the intensity at 30 and tick invisible. The light will have an effect
into the interior but hidden in the camera.
Here is the render Vray rectangular light + sunlight. Notice that more light penetrated the scene, less blotches specially in the
ceiling and walls. But notice once, we introduce the Vray rectangular lights we can see some grains and noises. We will address
this in the next step.

Note: To avoid blotches, use the technique of adding invisible Vray rectangular lights.

9. Correcting Noise.

Now go to the Image Sampler tab, the default IS is "Adaptive DMC". Now look at the Color Treshold parameter. Change the default
0.01 to 0.005.

Here is the render. Be mindful that the noise was lessen, but the downside was the rendering time.
Here is a much better setting (Color Threshold of 0.001) but again the rendering time is much much longer.

Let us see the render without overriding the material. That's it for this segment.

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21 comments:

Emilien 4 February 2012 at 06:52

I would have loved to have this kind of tutorial where I started.
Thank you to the pioneers to share!
Maybe one day I'll feel experienced enough to dare to post some things ...
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Adriel 4 February 2012 at 07:37

wow thanks for this sir. I'm waiting for the next segment. :] more power for you sir nomer. :]
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zirarex-art evolution 4 February 2012 at 11:29

Thank you sir Nomer...
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D.E.T. 16 February 2012 at 02:10

Thank for share good knowledge.
Hope you have more good tut for share.
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nomeradona 16 February 2012 at 05:30

sure more tuts coming. thanks everyone..
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avantgarde 3 March 2012 at 23:08

ive been looking for Vray 1.49 tutorials for SU renderings. Thank God I happened to stumble upon your blog! I just
rendered some elevations last night and got poor-quality renderings. I hope you would add elevation tutorials too.

Here's some of the resulting renderings. I didn't use RoundCorners though I have 1 from Fredo,too. It's just too time
consuming and I really need to get this project done on march9. :(

Guess what I need are your clear tutorials. I hope I know you personally so I could let you teach me personally. Reading
tutorials suck but thank God yours is very direct to the point and understandable.:)
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nomeradona 4 March 2012 at 03:05

thanks avantgarde for visiting an dstumbling my site. aside from these tutorials, if you lok at the MTMs there are
tons of excellent settings. ok thank you for telling. I will include elevations and sections..

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avantgarde 4 March 2012 at 23:02

thank you so much! i will be looking forward to more of your tutorials.:)
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Jio 19 April 2012 at 11:41

Muchas gracias...... hace mucho tiempo, que buscaba informacion como esta. por que se forman conceptos...
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Unknown 20 April 2012 at 03:03

nomeradona... I'm using sketchup 6 with vray, problem is whenever i use the vray material editor, it won't appear on my
sketchup material... what is the problem?>
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nomeradona 7 January 2013 at 19:39

you can easily download the latest su 8

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master_ian 22 April 2012 at 16:07

Thanks for you tutorials. I have a question though. How come I don't have the "refraction tab" in my material editor. I was
following your tutorial step-by-step but got lost because of it. Thanks in advance for your reply.
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angwns 6 January 2013 at 16:47

I had the same problem, did you figure out why? I'm wondering if it is because I am on a mac, or maybe
because I just downloaded the demo?

nomeradona 7 January 2013 at 19:38

it must be the version of your vray. download the latest version
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Soumya Dasgupta 10 June 2012 at 14:51

compact, clear and to-the-point stuff. just the thing i needed. thanks a lot. :-)
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Admin 24 February 2013 at 02:12

Of course! Un-check "effected by material override..." Can't tell you how this tutorial saved me in terms of time and
aggravation. Thanks!!!

-Helios Works, B.
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Ironbrooo 26 May 2013 at 19:02

great segment! Thanks.

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Huy Truong 31 July 2013 at 15:50

thanks for the tutorials
Where is the material folder for Vray? I have Vray for sketUP installed already.
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beautiful world 29 October 2013 at 14:53

can u tell me plz how to render a fog in vray for sketcup 2013
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Thomas Anderson 22 January 2015 at 22:17

The great post about Sketchup Tutorial, it's a very helpful post, thanks a lot for sharing.
full version software download free
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Unknown 24 June 2016 at 12:31

Thanks man for the brilliant and informative session. I just began working with vray yesterday and the works are so out of
this world. I however was not able to get glass clear and the shadows did not go beyond the table like it is the case in your
render. Is there some setting that I may have omitted?
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