Simply place it outside your window вЂ“ in this case, we can scale it so that it covers both windows. You can add a rectangle light using the lights toolbar within Vray. A rectangle light is a light in Vray that casts light. To do this, weвЂ™re going to use a rectangle light outside our windows. What we want to do is create an artificial light that will push more light through our window. To create more soft, rounded shadows, go into your sunlight settings and adjust your sun size вЂ“ in this case, weвЂ™ll set it to 3. Our shadows are also looking a bit too straight вЂ“ very unrealistic. See how this reduces the blown out areas in our image? LetвЂ™s reduce the brightness of our sun to. In this case, you can see how weвЂ™ve brightened our image up so much that we canвЂ™t see our sky or our ground plane anymore. You can check this by clicking the button for вЂњforce color clamping.вЂќ This will indicate on your image where the super bright areas are. However, you need to make sure that you donвЂ™t increase exposure or brightness so much that you image becomes blown out. Adjust Brightness to Reduce Color Blowout, Add Realistic Shadows Note that this makes your image noticeably brighter. In this case, weвЂ™re going to set our exposure value to 11. You can either just adjust the exposure value, or there are more advanced settings if you click on the advanced settings button. The lower the value, the brighter the image will be. In Vray, the camera acts a lot like a camera would in real life вЂ“ the shutter speed or exposure value is going to affect how bright your image is. This becomes especially important when dealing with artificial interior lights, otherwise your lighting calculations start becoming unrealistic. One thing to note вЂ“ whenever you have an interior render that isnвЂ™t bright enough, itвЂ™s a good idea to start by adjusting your exposure rather than making your lights brighter. You can find these within your Vray Asset Editor window, under the settings tab. WeвЂ™re going to adjust this by going in and adjusting our camera settings. The first thing youвЂ™ll notice is that your render is a bit dark. To exclude a glass material from your material override, you can adjust that using the material settings in your Vray Asset Editor window. In this case, for simplicityвЂ™s sake, I have not placed glass in the windows. In this case, I havenвЂ™t applied materials yet, but if you have, you can go into вЂњSettings,вЂќ вЂњMaterial Override.вЂќ This will override your materials to whatever color youвЂ™ve set.

If youвЂ™ve already applied materials to your model, you can turn on a material override in the settings section. This is a good way to start off because your render will work much faster without Vray having to calculate all the lighting and how it would work with the materials. Material OverrideДЇor this video, weвЂ™re going to render our scene without any materials to just get our lighting right.

You can adjust your time of year and also time of day settings to get your sunlight where you want. WeвЂ™re going to start off by turning on SketchUp shadows вЂ“ these will give you a preview of what the actual shadows will look like within your model. MY CURRENT FAVORITE SKETCHUP PLUGINS AND EXTENSIONS Want to learn more about SketchUp? Check Out THE SKETCHUP ESSENTIALS COURSE If so, please consider supporting me on Patreon (click here to support) or by visiting my Support the Show Page! In this video, learn to light an interior rendering in Vray using lighting from the exterior environment settings like the Sun, Rectangle Lights, and exposure! This will help you get your lighting set up initially so that you can add materials and create your final rendering!Дo you like these SketchUp tutorials and videos? VRAY INTERIOR LIGHTING TUTORIAL вЂ“ Rendering with Daylight in SketchUp!

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