Photographic Rendering with VRay for SketchUp

Very clear explanation of the processes involved especially if you follow the down loadable exercises. I strongly recommend this for anyone who wants to fully exploit the full potential of VRay for Sketchup.

The material is sufficiently detailed though not for beginners learning vray-SU. I would have rated this 5 stars if the images had been in colour instead of black & white. Though the colored versions are available for download from the book's website. Decent purchase!

Isn't only a good book, is a good tool for everyone interested in learn to use vray for sketchup.

This was written in 2014. I bought it in 2018. VRAY is set up completely different now and labelled differently. I am spending way too much time trying to figure out how the various fields match from program to book. Bummer..the book seems lime it was written well. Wait for an updated version.

Good info in the text, clearly explained. Suffers from poor photography / screenshots reproduced in grainy black and white with indiscernible differences as the author attempts to point out progress through screenshots. You have to do the work with the model on screen to glean the knowledge herein.

Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUpAt first I was rather skeptical about this book, I was always interested CG rendering and 3D design and this book seemed like a good direction to take. I really enjoyed the hands on approach, make sure you download the code documents in order to follow along. While SketchUp is free for educational uses as mentioned on their website it is worthy to note it didn't feel limited in any way compared to the paid version. Setup was pretty easy under Windows 8 and everything went without a hiccup.Chapter 1 set the pace and I was already sold on this book, then I was wondering why are there so many chapters on lighting! Well from my experience with 3D game techniques it's really hard to mimic light! So for me the three chapters were needed but also very well written, from the daytime scene to night and final touch ups, what an awesome transformation. If you are not into math you should really get into it for this, light is very tricky and in order to understand it you will need some working level of math on a higher level. If you're anything like me that is very limited but your willing to keep pushing forward until you understand it, don't feel bad I had to go over this a few times. I did get my ah-ha moment though.I think it is extremely important to mention the quality control chapter, it has got to be one of the best things I've seen since toasted sliced bread! DO NOT SKIP IT, if you really want your work to shine take the extra steps to perfect it. No shock that you will be adjusting the lighting quality here again! I would give this book a 10/10 or 100/100 if I could, I know it isn't going to take my hand and walk me down the path of using SketchUp overnight, and that isn't why I purchased this book. I wanted to see what goes into the "behind the scenes" with CG level animations and rendering, this book didn't disappoint me. The material was covered well and I felt like I was making progress, don't feel bad if you tinker around with the settings and divert from the book. I find it sticks in my mind better if I go a bit off course!Publisher: [...]

it's okay,

If I knew before was not sharp, colorful images, would not have bought