SketchUp: Rendering with V-Ray 3

Learn about tools and features in the rendering solution V-Ray for SketchUp. Discover how to navigate the interface, add illumination to scenes, and work with the V-Ray camera.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Software versions used in this course
• What you should know before watching
• Using the exercise files
• Setting SketchUp preferences
• A word about HDRIs
• Gamma handling in V-Ray 3 for SketchUp

V-Ray 3.6 Update Features

• Introduction to 3.60.03 new features
• Software versions used and important information
• Viewport rendering
• Hybrid rendering
• UV tools
• V-Ray Color Picker
• V-Ray Scene (.vrscene) import
• Environment Fog
• V-Ray Mesh Viewer
• File Path Editor
• Improved denoiser
• Multimatte, part 1
• Multimatte, part 2

1. Introduction to V-Ray

• Finding V-Ray tools in the SketchUp UI
• The V-Ray for SketchUp toolbar
• The Lights and Objects toolbars
• V-Ray frame buffer overview
• V-Ray frame buffer history controls
• V-Ray render output options
• Working with interactive rendering

2. Lighting the Place Up

• V-Ray light types: Sunlight
• V-Ray light types: Rectangle
• V-Ray light types: Sphere
• V-Ray light types: Spot
• V-Ray light types: IES
• V-Ray light types: Omni
• V-Ray light types: Dome
• V-Ray light types: Mesh
• V-Ray light types: GI skylight

3. Bouncing Light Around

• Working with irradiance mapping, part 1
• Working with irradiance mapping, part 2
• Creating a light cache solution
• Using the brute force engine
• Rendering animations

4. Working with the V-Ray Camera

• Overview of the physical camera options
• A primer on exposure values (EVs)
• A closer look at the exposure controls
• Handling perspective correction
• Setting up a depth-of-field effect
• Working with the white balance controls

5. It's a Material World

• Using the Materials UI
• Introduction to V-Ray materials, part 1
• Introduction to V-Ray materials, part 2
• Introduction to V-Ray materials, part 3
• Creating diffuse surfaces
• Adding reflectivity
• Creating glass
• Making colored and frosted glass
• Creating a translucency effect
• Understanding color on the SSS material
• Tweaking the SSS effect
• A look at the hair material
• Using the car paint material
• The wrapper material
• The V-Ray material library
• Using VRmats

6. V-Ray Map Types

• Introduction to V-Ray map selection
• V-Ray map types: Bitmap
• V-Ray map types: Triplanar
• V-Ray map types: Composite
• V-Ray map types: Dirt
• V-Ray map types: MultiSub Tex

7. The Quality Control Department

• Image sampling explained
• The progressive sampler
• The bucket sampler
• Vlado's preferred approach to sampling

8. Working with Render Elements

• Render elements explained
• Pipeline decisions
• Render elements workflow and setup
• Outputting elements
• Compositing elements
• The Denoiser feature

9. V-Ray FX Tools

• Generating a caustic effect
• Stereoscopic 3D rendering
• VR made easy
• Using V-Ray objects: Fur
• Using V-Ray objects: Proxies
• Using V-Ray objects: The V-Ray clipper
• Working with displacement
• V-Ray scene export
• Adding aerial perspective

Conclusion

• What's next?