Photorealistic rendering for dummies...
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Hi all,
I am a landscape architect based in France and recently dropped my pencils for the mouse. I am fairly proficient with autocad and the adobe suite. Now it is time for me to do the great 3d modeling/rendering leap.
I have been fidgeting around with sketchup for years but never got the chance to wrap my head around it. Now, after a long thinking process (do I want to use the same tools as the competition or not) I ended up modeling a site for a project in sketchup.
Building up the existing site was fun and I ended up with a fairly accurate result. So me is happy.
Now I am sooooooo unsatisfied about the rendering, it is scary... I am braindamagingly perfectionist and my results are far from perfection... so I browsed around and saw some jaw dropping images produced with a combination of sketchup and 3d rendering software.I tried (unsuccessfully) to install and use Kerkythea. I have not spent much time on it. I came here to fish for advices.
1-will using sketchup pro improve the graphics of my models?
2-FOR LANDSCAPE PURPOSE mostly, what rendering software will you recommend? Ideally it will be free and easy to use (and come with a get out of jail card for free
)The thing is I am a landscape architect and not a graphic designer. I do not have the proper education to produce what I would find a proper document to present to my clients. But right now, my business is a small little sprout. Until mu business grows into a proper shade providing tree that will enable me to contract a pro to do that for me, well I have to learn the basic.
Help!!!!Sincerely yours,
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Hang in there
Perhaps Frederik and some others will respond.
Meanwhile check out the gallery on this forum.
And Welcome -
Really, nothing better than Twilight with the free Kerkythea when You get better!
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But please don't abandon the pencil and paper.
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Mazdak, as you said twice, you are a landscape architect, can you give me an idea of what you are looking to achieve?
The reason I ask is maybe you need to be looking at more/other software to achieve what you need.
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@solo said:
Mazdak, as you said twice, you are a landscape architect, can you give me an idea of what you are looking to achieve?
The reason I ask is maybe you need to be looking at more/other software to achieve what you need.
SOLO!!!! The stuff you have under your exterior section is definitely WOWWWW!!!! is it sketchup based?
Admiringly yours,
M.
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@unknownuser said:
Ideally it will be free and easy to use
Hum hum
As a professional you will be payback with just one operation for quasi any progs not freeFor landscape and architecture (compatible Sketchup
Take a look to Vue
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Pilou WORD!!! you are absolutely right. However, I need to try before I buy and I most definitely do not have thousands od euro-bucks to put in a soft.
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Skindigo is the Indigo renderer, with a SketchUp plugin written by Whaat (Dale Martens) who is a regular on this forum. There are many who love it. Indigo is currently in the process of becoming a non-free renderer. I think they said the old version will always be free, but the new version is not cheap 595 euros starting February 1st.
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