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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