I really suck at rendering
Andrea — July 14, 2011
The last few house renderings on the home page have been so dismal that I finally gave up on photorealism and just did something neutral. The good news is that it includes the piers — you'll just have to imagine trees, terrain, stairs, etc.
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Re: I really suck at rendering
Elrond Burrell — July 15, 2011What are you rendering it in, just Sketchup? Perhaps worth trying something else? Or a sketchup addon even?
Best wishes!
Re: I really suck at rendering
Andrea — July 15, 2011Yup, just the free version of Sketchup. I haven't explored add-ons yet -- are there any you can recommend that would work with the free version?
I confess that making a pretty rendering hasn't been a particularly high priority. My hope is that Camilo, the architect friend who's been helping us, will have a chance to make a professional-quality rendering for us in the next few weeks. We've been hammering out exterior details, so hopefully a pretty picture will come out of that.
Cheers,
Andrea
Re: I really suck at rendering
Elrond Burrell — July 15, 2011Have a look here: http://www.alexschreyer.net/cad/rendering-sketchup-models-with-kerkythea/
I haven't got any personal experience with SU rendering actually, I would use Revit by preference. As you say maybe your architect will produce renderings in due course.
Best wishes, Elrond
Re: I really suck at rendering
Andrea — July 15, 2011Thanks, I'll check that out. Though maybe I should wait until we're in the house to do it, so we can effectively capture the heat from my CPU :-)