This way of thinking maintains my sanity and minimizes the amount of test renderings and setting adjustments that need to be made.

I am simply trying to get close to what I want and then refine the lighting and colors in Photoshop. Another very important point that I want to make is that I am not trying to produce the perfect V-Ray rendering each time. You will notice that I don’t vear too far from the default settings, but instead use settings that will provide the best ratio of fast rendering times and good outputs. Right out of the box, V-Ray generates nice renderings. The most important of these were simplicity and flexibility. I simply tried out a lot of different programs and found V-Ray was the best at meeting a lot of my needs. I have been using V-Ray for over a year now and I am in no way paid by V-Ray or affiliated with the company.

A lot of you have been asking for V-Ray settings and so I am going to spend a little time going over the settings that I used to create the base rendering of the main street perspective in the previous post.

Vray 5 tutorial sketchup