Sun Lounge Extension Project Day and Night

    Hi all,


    My first post and first serious attempt with Enscape for Sketchup having subscribed a month back. Been messing around with the trial version for a while and very impressed with it. Have been using Vray for about 7 years but never really got brilliant results from it (user skill rather than the software!) but finding so far that I get get much better results from Enscape in a much shorter space of time. I bought Vray 2.0 for sketchup back in January but probably won't use it now. I know it can produce brilliant results but I have never had the skills to be able to do so.


    The attached images are of small extension house extension project I am working on. Tried a day and night test with the same room. No post work, all standard sketchup materials, enscape lights etc. The reflections in the glass on the night view are a bit weird but apart from that I am quite happy with the results.



    Thanks for the comments, I know the outlines make it less realistic but was kind of going for an illustrative image rather than photo-real. However I have had a mess around with the outline settings and have done the following for comparison.





    I think some of the detail is lost and the image seems a bit flat with outlines turned off. Might just be a personal preference but I prefer the outlined version.


    I then tried reducing the outline percentage to 1%. The original image had 4%.




    Finally I upped the resolution from 1920 x 1080 to 3840 x 2160 and set the outline percentage to 2%

    This softens the outline quite a bit and might be seen as the happy medium. I think I still prefer the original to be honest but all thoughts welcome.




    Thanks Ted, very happy with the results and the software in general. Its scary how simple it is to generate these with Sketchup and Enscape compared to what I used to try and do with 3ds Max and Vray!


    The tricky part as always is convincing my clients to pay for the visuals!! I do design and construction drawings for residential extensions etc but I feel the visuals are absolutely key to getting clients to understanding the scheme before any building work starts.

    Nice, I've had similar dilemmas before trying to decide whether to use outlines or not. They definitely help things to pop a bit, but in certain areas they can be too obvious. I like your strategy of exporting at a higher resolution - I think it's a happy medium. Another option for even more control would be to combine the images in photoshop and erase certain areas where the outline are too thick.