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Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp

You're reading from   Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp 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.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849693226
Length 328 pages
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Diving Straight into Photographic Rendering FREE CHAPTER 2. Lighting an Interior Daytime Scene 3. Lighting an Interior Nighttime Scene Using IES Lights 4. Lighting an Exterior Daylight Scene 5. Understanding the Principles of Light Behavior 6. Creating Believable Materials 7. Important Materials Theory 8. Composition and Cameras 9. Quality Control 10. Adding Photographic Touches in Post-production Index

Defining our goals


Our goals for this chapter will be as follows:

  • Finalize the technical requirements for the finished renders.

  • By making use of our artistic sensibilities (generally, in conjunction with guidance from the client in the form of their original brief), lockdown the type of shot or shots that we are going to produce.

  • And finally, using the controls offered by both the V-Ray physical camera and SketchUp's own viewport, create final camera views for our scene that have a strong and pleasing compositional element to them. This final step of course will need to take into account the basic principles or guidelines of composition, and apply them to our scene or camera views as we go further.

One thing to note here is that the material we will be covering in this chapter hasn't really been arranged in any kind of specific progression that must be adhered to on your particular project. Rather, it is in this order simply because I typically find that getting the technical considerations...

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