Create highly realistic 3D architectural drawings with V-Ray, a popular third-party renderer for SketchUp. This course shows how to take a single scene with interior/exterior elements and add lights, move cameras, and enhance objects with translucent and reflective surfaces. Author Brian Bradley explains concepts like irradiance mapping, perspective correction, and fixed rate sampling, while showing how to leverage each of the V-Ray tools and its material and lighting types to achieve specific effects.

Topics include:

Installing V-Ray
Creating natural daylight with V-Ray Sun and Sky
Bouncing light around with irradiance mapping and light caches
Setting up a depth-of-field effect
Creating diffuse and reflective surfaces
Working with the Adaptive DMC engine
Manipulating color mapping
Adding caustic lighting and occlusion effects