How to render an architectural scale model in V-Ray for SketchUp

With V-Ray SketchUp, it’s easy to match your designs to a background and create eye-catching realistic architectural renderings. According to many objective reviews, we can see that the scale model makes it easy to communicate an architectural concept. And here’s the trick: you can create a real-world physical model, a 3D drawing, or a combination of the two.

In Today’s Blog, we will show you how to use V-Ray for SketchUp to seamlessly integrate your SketchUp model with photos of a real-life web research model. The resulting images look lifelike, with the advantage that you can quickly tweak and re-render the image if you need to make changes. You can also use these techniques elsewhere. For example, to add a full-scale architectural model to an on-site shot, or to integrate an object with a real-world context.

Take a picture of your handmade site study model. Make sure you note the color and direction of the on-site light source.

• Create a new file in SketchUp. In the Camera menu, choose “Match new photo…” then select the backplate photo.
• Drag the origin point (yellow square) to one corner of the site model. The red and green parallel lines control the direction of the perspective line. Just remember that the red, green, and blue axes are perpendicular to one other.

Click the “Done” button after photo matching.

Do not forget to set the output aspect ratio to match the backplate photo (This example is 4:3):

First, you need to draw a large plane surface to form the ground. To do this, you can simply put an infinite plane at the origin point of the scene. Make sure the normal direction of the infinite plane (the blue arrow) is facing upwards.

The next step is important. Try to recreate the digital light to match the direction, color and brightness of the real light source.

Don’t forget to turn off the default sunlight and the sky texture:

In this scene, the key light is obviously coming from the upper right corner, you can tell this by observing the shadow of the tree or the buildings around the site.

So just draw a block for reference, then put a V-Ray light on top right of the block.

Go back to the render camera and test. Adjust the Camera EV and light color:

The result should look like the image below: 

We can fine-tune the V-Ray light in the next step.

In the Material Library > Diagrammatic, we can find a “Matte Shadow Receiver”. Apply this material to the infinite plane.

In the V-Ray frame buffer, choose Color correction> Background, check “Background image” and load the backplate photo. Now you can see the final composition and fine-tune the light and exposure values. You can even add more fill lights to match the backplate, depending on your scene:

Note: If using the GPU engine, make sure the shadows are based on a Dome Light or other direct light sources instead of the Environment illumination.

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