Why you use SketchUp and v-ray?

Renderwow - 3/14/18 11:00

1.1 start with SetchUp.

On March 14, 2006, Google announced to purchase 3D drawing Software SketchUp and its development company @last Software. SketchUp is famous for its simple and easy to use 3 d drawing software, Google SketchUp is to enhance the function of the Google Earth, users can use SketchUp to build 3 d models and in Google Earth, what makes Google Earth map more stereo feeling, closer to the real world.

Google has launched two versions, standard and enhanced versions of SketchUp. The standard version is for industry fans and is free to use. Industry enthusiasts can use this version to design their own living space, or create a 3d model for Google earth, which is the best hope for Google.

Enhanced version is targeted at professional design staff, provides the interaction with other main design software interface, the most widely used AutoCAD and 3 ds Max, as a result of the SketchUp easy-to-play, studious, simple operation, more and more people are getting the favor from the professional design staff, have now become the architectural design personnel, in the scheme design phase is used to express the construction effect of commonly used design software.

1.2 the advantages and disadvantages of SketchUp.

Modeling: flexible, easy to operate, but limited in function, not supported by Nurbs (Nurbs), but for buildings that are not too complex, they generally meet the need.

Material: only the texture, color and transparent control, there is no real world light reflection, refraction, spontaneous object methods, properties, such as can only express construction effect, probably can't form real photos level effect.

Lighting system: only the sun, no other lighting system, can not express the night view and indoor architectural effect.

Rendering: there is no built-in renderer, only the shadow mode is provided, and the brightness difference between the sun and the surface is simple, forming the shadow caused by the sun.

Perhaps you see here have been discouraged, it is just a design phase software, can only watch in the big effect of the building of software, as well as advantages that are not only easier, but very limited function.

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1.3 how to make up for the lack of SketchUp?

Modeling: for complex surface models, other software such as 3dsmax can be used to guide in, and now there are many professional model libraries, which can generally meet our needs.

Texture, lighting, and rendering: through other rendering plug-ins.

Through the above methods, we can enjoy the advantages of SketchUp, which can break the limitation of SketchUp and realize our design effect.

Because SketchUp does not have a built-in renderer, you can only use other renderers to get the photo level rendering. With the growing influence of SketchUp in the construction industry, there are more and more renderers of SketchUp, which are listed as follows:

V - Ray

Artlantis Studio

SU Podium

Twilight Render

Maxwell

THEA Render

Indigo Render

Arion

Octane Render

And so on...

In short, most of today's mainstream renderers implement render support for SketchUp through plug-ins or interfaces.

So we're going to choose v-ray?

1. The most powerful renderers and high quality rendering results support outdoor, indoor and product shading.

2. VRay also supports other major 3d software, such as 3dsmax and Maya, with similar usage and interface. Once mastered, it can be extended to other platforms.

3. Realize the rendering of SketchUp scene in a plug-in way, and realize the seamless integration with SketchUp, which is the most convenient to use.

4. V-ray has the most extensive user groups, with the most abundant tutorials, materials and materials, and it is easy to find the answers through the Internet through the Internet.

5. ChaosGroup bought ASGVIS (the company developed v-ray and SketchUp's plug-in interface) in 2011-02-10, and we have reason to believe that the future version of v-ray will be more powerful!

If you are only looking for a renderer to complete the rendering of the SketchUp product, why not choose v-ray?