TUTORIAL VRAY FOR SKETCHUP NIGHT SCENE #3

here is a simple and very good tutorial, step by step,  shared with us by our friend 

ALVIN BACULI DADOR 

Alvin lives and works as CADD Operator in  Batangas City in the Philippines.

 to contact Alvin click here 

TUTORIAL VRAY 1.48  FOR SKETCHUP NIGHT SCENE #3 

STEP 1

Under Global switches, check deafult light

 STEP 2 

 Click option for G.I. Switch the UVW type to environment

Click on the file icon and put HDRI

STEP 3

In B.G. do the sane thing you have done in G.I. 

STEP 4

Check on the reflection option

click sun option and use sun as source of light

Under sun option put .05 in the intensity and 5.0 for teh sun size

After that close the reflection option and uncheck the box of reflection option

STEP 5

Under indirect illumination, check ambient occlusion on 

Put 0.4 for the amount and 24 for the subdive  

STEP 6

In the place of grass, put any color you want for the grass in Photoshop

Click on the shadow setting and set the time to 4.30 pm

STEP 7

Save the rendered file as PNG. This will be the ouput render

STEP 8

 Click on the magic wand tool and click to the color green and delete it

STEP 9

Afther deleting here's the out put

STEP 10
GRASS TEXTURE USED HERE
 you can download the image here (click on the image > right click> save)

 Put the grass texture and use clone stamp tool to create grass clines in flat surfaces

The control the color balnce brightness of the grass to mactch the scene

STEP 11

add the background
you can download the image here (click on the image > right click> save)

 open in PS copy and paste below

 STEP 12

 we tailor the brightness of our background image to the scene
(The picture published has already been corrected)

STEP 13

add a few branches in the foreground using a PNG image  

you can download the image here (click on the image > right click> save)

STEP 14

 we tailor the brightness  image to the scene 

 we act on the window brightness / contrast

HERE IS THE FINAL RENDER

 

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