Looking Back.. My first render with Vray SketchUp and Podium

I was browsing some of my old photos and I came up to see some of my oldest output with VRAY SketchUp and Podium engines. Honestly, I grinned with smile. I still remember those happy days of producing renders, I felt like Superman... Of course I could see that other newbies have far far more respectable output with these. On the other hand specially with Vray, we do not even have Manual then and the funny ASGVIS logo was still there.

Here is one of my very first output with Vray Sketchup1.0. Notice the logo. This was the first beta trial of Vray SketchUp with the funny Asgvis logo to the right left corner. I remember at that time too, I could  not control the mapping. If you will see the painting, it was actually repeating. It should not. The pillow in the middle should have mapping too, but I cant control it. Anyhow it was nice to remember.


This is one of my first trial with materials. Trying to see the effect of reflection and refraction.

I think this was really one of my first try with Vray SketchUp 1.0 with respectable output. Notice the painting, I was actually stuck with UV... it drove me crazy. I actually gave up VRAY SketchUp for around three months after my trial expired.

With podium, the following renders were my very first render and posted in the forums...This was I beleive in year 2003. I believe, I was still using SKetchUp 4.0 by @Last not even Google at that time.

 

I was actually very comfortable with Podium Rendering engine. Most of my personal projects and designs were visulized using SkethUp and Podium Render.

I returned with Vray SketchUp after they update it and I had a chance to try the next version. This time they removed the watermark. After joining the ASGVIS forums and ability to control UV. The below render was the one that attracted me with VraySketchUp.


Rendered with VraySu 1.33

Compared with my previous render with Podium

From then I slowly became more used to with Vray SketchUp. Below were some of my renders (actual projects, hobbies and test render)

 Only Emissive Lighting ( this is the render where I found that increasing the HSPH subdivision could actually removed those splotches when using emissive materials.

Thang Loi Hotel Desing presentation using Vray SketchUp

A villa design

Hotel Bedroom Design

Just a test

Lighting Test.