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title: "Complete Project Setup"
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This is a tutorial series designed to show you the essential steps in creating stunning photoreal exterior and interior renders for your architectural projects with V-Ray for SketchUp.  

Follow along with your host, **Boyan Petrov**, a 3D artist at Chaos, as he creates beautiful scenes and explains the best practices in lighting, material creation, and more. The scenes are available for download, so you can practice on your own time.

Want to follow along but don’t have a license?


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## **Introduction**

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## **Populating your scene**

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### Part 1: Placing Chaos Cosmos Assets


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### Part 2: Iterating with V-Ray Vision


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### Part 3: Object Scattering


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### Part 4: Staging Your Interior


## **Lighting**

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### Part 1: Using the Sun and Sky System


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### Part 2: Finding the Best Light with Light Gen


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### Part 3: Creating Evening Skies


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### Part 4: Evening Exterior Artificial Lights


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### Part 5: Evening Environment Illumination


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### Part 6: Light Mixing and Compositing


## **Materials**

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### Part 1: Working With Generic Materials


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### Part 2: Working with Chaos Cosmos


## **Tips on Optimizing Scene Geometry**

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## **Adding Atmospheric & Volumetric Effects**

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## **V-Ray Frame Buffer and Post-Processing**

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## **Daytime Interior Lighting and Material Techniques**

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## **Camera Settings for Virtual Photography**

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## **Interior Night Scene Lighting**

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## **Enhance the Quality and Speed of Your Renders**

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## **Creating and Exporting Animations**

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