u/SlytherinKing

Hello everyone, I’ve spent quite some time this past week on this reddit watching all your incredible renders and deciding finally to make this post.

I don’t claim to know much about archviz since I mainly worked in construction supervision, but now branching on my own to fully dedicate myself to high end interiors and it has been imperative for me to open up social media and upload renders to get clients.

The thing is no matter how much youtube videos I watch on tips, how much I work alongside chatgpt, my renders always end up looking so off and fake. Lighting is the weakest point no matter how much I rework them.

Attached is a picture of the main living space without any edits (since I did many versions of post production each one better than the past one but still none of them won’t convince me).

Would greatly appreciate any tip, any material help, and most importantly: rendering EFFECTS suggestions and settings.

Hello one again community.

I have some furniture models I wish to render with some real fabrics which I intend to do PBR textures of, but it doesn't matter if the PBR material is good if the texturing of the model is not well done first in Sketchup. I've learned to use projected texture for some curved pieces and it worked amazingly for a bench model, but for sofas, chairs and cushions I'm having a hard time getting them right. I will attach some images that I think explain the problem better than I could, in hopes someone could point me in the right direction towards the correct solution to this issue.

Hello again Sketchup community.

A week or so ago I made some posts here regarding some furniture I needed to make in Sketchup for a project I'm working on, namely the Ebanista Pierre Bench and the Yves chair by Theodore Alexander that no one has yet done and uploaded in the warehouse nor could I find the way to make them since I can't use extensions on Sketchup online. The thing is I finally found the Ebanista bench two days ago on a site called CGtrader, made by a very talented man who sent it to me for free. The thing is, he sent me a fbx file and a Corona one. I had to look online for 4 different sites until I finally got around one that made it a skp file, but in the image you can see the exorbitant amount of polygons it has making my Sketchup slow as can be.

Now my questions is, how can I fix this easily? How can I separate the parts of the bench especially the very detailed ones to assign a different material to each one for rendering purposes?

Thank you very much once again.

Hello, just about two hours ago I made a help request for some of you more experienced users to point me in the right direction towards modelling a side table based on a real one for a interior design project render. One of you was extra kind to model the whole table and send it via email in less than 10 minutes from the moment I made the post (thank you so much u/ValenciaFilter!) and another commented the way he would have tackled the table's legs which are very detailed. However as I mentioned in said post, I've got some furniture pieces that I've tried modelling but failed due to them having different shapes that Sketchup Online can generate without plugins for sure but I don't know yet.

I will attach pictures of those remaining pieces here to see if anyone can point me to a tutorial or can describe the process to making these without the use of plugins, please. With the first chair, I got the picture in a new model and scaled it and traced the lines, it was all going well (I think) until I had to do the back of it, the second one is even more intimidating due to it's winged but slightly twisted back and legs, and of course the curviness of the whole chair. Then to the bench, I think this one is the most straightforward of them all I may already know how to do it on my own sans the details (the acanthus leaves detail on each leg + the nails) but open to any suggestions as to how to make the workflow easier

Finally, if any of you have any youtube channels where you teach these kind of stuff, please plug them in and I will follow you.

Hello, I'm an architect that uses Sketchup for my interior projects, but due to many circumstances currently I only have my Macbook Pro with Sketchup online to work with (when I'm done with the 3D modeling I go to the office I used to work in and render via Lumion). I'm now in the process of a very high end project, and as the perfectionist in me needs, I require to present the most realistic image possible of the finished result. With materials this is easy, but with the furniture and decor it's been a huge task.

I jumped in the bandwagon of image to 3D model AI sites to have the models of some furniture and decor pieces, however these never translate well to Lumion due to them being a single material, and their maps never accurately depict the metalness, gloss, material. They all look plastic. The normal fix would be to export them to SKP and render them with different materials in Sketchup, but that failed epically the 5 times I tried due to these models exploding in a million polygons when changed from .gbl or .obj to .skp.

Not one to ever give up, at least not easily, I just thought about coming here and hopefully some of you Sketchup geniuses could help me model these pieces as close to the real product as possible, without the use of plug ins (since remember, I'm using Sketchup online).

Attached is the image of a very urgent piece I need to incorporate in my project, since the AI modeled one looks flat and dull in the render I'm doing. It's the Roman Side Table by Villiers, and it's legs contain so much details that I find impossible to do on Sketchup currently, hopefully one of you with more expertise and Sketchup background could tell me an easy way to model this since I truly feel there is one way but I'm not seeing clearly yet.