today's video is showing you how I create my architectural interior renders
using Sketchup and v-ray so let's get started so the first thing that we need
to do is to import our CAD file want to make sure that the unit of the file is
millimeters I usually create my drawings in a meter
so I'm gonna scale that up to get it to millimetres
all clean with no duplicate lines all on the same layer and then I'm gonna save
that file and then head on over to Sketchup to import it so you will need
SketchUp Pro for this but you can either get the SketchUp Pro trial or you can
take a screenshot of your AutoCAD drawing and then add that to Sketchup so
once we have our drawing in Sketchup you can see it's in one layer so then I
could start adding all of my other layers such as exterior walls interior
walls glass furniture so then we will click on here to enable the interior
walls so we will start with rectangle tool and then drawing out the rectangles
before I pulled them up I like to turn them into a group and then edit within
the group and then pull them up that way all of the surfaces are within a group
which makes it a lot easier as well to select afterwards or if you'll need to
edit and I suggest you start learning some shortcuts so P is for pull so that
way when you are modeling you can just press that button instead of going to
the tools it saves a lot of time actually so I'm just going to do that
for the rest of the walls
and then I'm going to start with my curtain wall in here so I'm using the
rectangle tool and then drawing out the rectangle and then turning that into a
group and then edit within the group I'm gonna use the offset tool and then
offset that to create the frames and then I'm going to start adding a few
colors because at this point of time I'm not exactly sure if I want my frames for
example to be aluminum to be timber to be whatever it is so I'm going to add a
color right now just so when I go onto v-ray I can select all of the elements
in the same color and then change that material at once and I find this process
also a lot more enjoyable because it's a bit more abstract so I can see for
example in the room I have way too much yellow
my windows are going to be very deep for environmental reasons to make them
shaded so I'm going to pull that out and then I'm going to pull those walls out
to create my exterior walls
so I'm going to do the same thing for this area here but this area will have
different blast panels then you can hide a few walls so that
you can start building your furniture from the inside I'm also going to add a
ceiling because yep rooms are characterized by a ceiling
I just want to quickly mention the Kelly Wessler the interior design master class
I never knew how interior design could be so fun and so creative like what I
was looking at her spaces they're so inspiring it transforms a space so I
think it's important to watch that class as well to kind of develop a story about
how you want your furniture to look like also helps add a different layer to your
architectural spaces since my site had an industrial background so I really
wanted to create those types of vanities in the bathroom but unfortunately I
don't know how to build that in Sketchup yet the actual like pipe work I
wanted the spaces to have this industrial feel so a lot of frame or
pipe works or things in gold because first of all it is a luxury hotel suite
so having things in gold and silver and it's common and then second of all the
actual motto of the city is out of Darkness commit light and their
signature color is gold so it works perfectly for the interior spaces and
this is just what I was thinking of
you'll see me adding a lot of furniture with this industrial feel
so as you can see I've also added different colors to the walls because I
wanted to have like a feature wall it will all be out of marble so I'm just
adding that as colors for the moment because I don't have the materials yet
so for the main living space I wanted to have this open relationship between the
bathroom walking wardrobe as well as the bedroom
so it is separated by this wall this wall will be made out of timber panels
kind of like a screen so you'll still have light peeking through from the
bathroom in that space but you'll still have that privacy so I'm creating one
panel and then turning that into a component use the move tool while you
are pressing control and the slash button on your keyboard and then add a
number 50 sketchup will automatically divide that space into 50 equal spaces
so now I'm also building the Wardrobe units so all of the furniture they are
from the Sketchup warehouse except the bathroom vanity I kind of built it myself
except the actual sinks found this beautiful wardrobe made from metal and
glass which fits exactly the story that I'm trying to tell in my spaces so I had
to explode it a couple of times and edit within the group to change all of
the metal work into gold
and then I also found this beautiful vanity for just an area if I had seen
this earlier I probably would have used it for the bathroom because it's that
nice and I'm also taking the Wardrobe that I previously did and then I'm
adding that on the sides of that vanity
going to edit that and make that into two panels instead of four and then I'm
going to scale that so that it fits in on the sides of the vanity all of these
closet elements are components so you can later change them in the future so
that vanity also had a few really nice materials so I took the marble from that
table and I added that on the walls because that was exactly the material
that I was thinking of for the walls and then I've used that timber as well for
the background of the Wardrobe and I also added this cushion for like a seat
to sit on so now I'm editing the bed it was really hard to find a really good
modern bed this was the only one that I found but I hated the colors of it which
is fine because then we can change it if you edit within the group and then
change it a little bit
so I also found these bedside tables and I also added these chairs with a small
table to sit by the window and I also added bed bench and a few extra decor
elements such as a tray with some glasses I also added a curtain for that
living space as well as the bathroom so this is kind of how the space is looking
with all of the furniture as I previously mentioned it's really helpful
to have things in layers so then you can switch them off it kind of relieves
Sketchup another tip that I found was also to use the clean up plugging so it
helps get rid of any duplicate and that helps reduce the file size of Sketchup
so the last thing I found was my Sketchup file was lagging so much and it
was because it was Auto saving every one minute so to change that you can go into
preferences and then change that into something like five minutes so during my
process on learning Sketchup and v-ray there was a few YouTube channels that
really help the Sketchup essentials they have so many videos on making models as
well as v-ray and they explain it in such an easy and beginner way that I
could follow along and understand so I would highly suggest watching those
videos the second channel is architecture inspirations they have so
much information all jam packed into one video it's so entertaining as well as
educational and I have so much to learn from that channel so I will definitely
be watching those videos in my free time so now to where I got my Vray materials
materials so I've used two websites one is vismat and so they have tons and
tons of materials all kinds of things the second site that I found was flying
architecture and they also have some high high quality materials some of them
are paid so you will have to purchase them and they also have tutorials on
their website and they show you how to create a render basically from beginning
to end with all other steps which is so amazing and I appreciate all of the hard
work that they do so I also just wanted to mention that while I was rendering in
v-ray I came across this problem where my renders were turning blue so if you
have this problem maybe this solution will help you I figured out what it was
from the glass although the glass was from vismat and there was nothing blue
about it so I don't really understand why it was turning blue but my only work
around it was this video that I watched by TN3D Studio so unfortunately they
don't upload frequently and I don't know why cuz the content was amazing the
video that I watched about v-ray glass it's truly inspiring they show you how
to create realistic glass in I think nine different ways all from scratch in
v-ray with their help I created clear glass
and that eliminated that blue tint in my renders so now back to the Sketchup
model and creating proxies so what I've done is since I've added all of my
elements in that big Sketchup file there's a lot easier to just grab a
bunch of the furniture and then make one proxy out of them
can group it and then if I click on here I can export that into a proxy so I'm
gonna leave the settings to these default settings and I'm going to change
their faces in preview from ten thousand to two thousand and five hundred so once
you export the proxy this is how it should look like proxies they save the
geometry in the faces so when you add that to Sketchup file and you render it
it will show you the geometry but if they do not recognize the materials so
I'm gonna go into the asset editor and then as you can see there is a new
material added that combines all of the materials in that proxy so I'm going to
export that and save that so now I'm going back to my original Sketchup file
as you can see my cabinets and my chairs are proxy so now I'm gonna click on here
and then import the bed proxy and I'm going to rotate that and fit that into
place
so if I go back into the asset editor you can see that the proxy it does have
materials but they're all different colors so if I render that it's going to
render it in green blue purple and whatever it will not render it in the
original materials that I've set so what we're gonna do is import the other
materials that we've saved and then we're going to use that as a replacement
so if I click on that and then click on use as replacement and then go to the
other material for the Sketchup proxy and then replace it so you can see that
the color of the proxy changed now that we know that the proxy have saved its
materials but now I'm going to show you an overview of the other proxies that
are created so this is the cabinet Sketchup file before I turn into a proxy
I really enjoyed add in all of those little details and I would not have been
able to add that in the original sketch of the chair proxy is basically the
simplest proxy with a new high quality materials
so now it's time for the secret surviving show so today's question is by
Astle Gill asking why are case studies so important so I rely on case studies
so much in the beginning of my design work because you're learning things that
already worked so then you can learn how to push the boundaries of it so I would
not have known how to design hotel rooms or how to design skyscrapers how to
design hospitals so if I look on case studies I can kind of see how the
building works how they've managed all of the difficulties that come with
designing a building using those information I can then transform them
make them my own combine that with different ideas to
make it my own and I hope that was helpful and thank you so much guys for
watching please leave in the comments down below what did you think of the
renders and if you have any more tips and tricks with Sketchup and v-ray
because this is definitely a new territory for me
and I'm sure it is for a lot of people out there so it'll be really great if
you can leave some tips and suggestions so that we can all learn and benefit
from you guys so that we can all learn and benefit from each other and I hope
you are all staying safe and healthy and happy I'm Rasha Shrourou and I will see you
next time