Advice on Rendering Software


Hi guys,
I have attached a picture here of a look I am trying to achieve for my renders. I cannot figure out what rendering software might have been used for this. I like that it is not photorealistic, it has the outlines of the model which gives it a sketchy look but it also has lighting and reflections. I would appreciate your help ! Thank you

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You can do this kind of thing in several renderers

Enscape allows you to have “outlines” on whilst doing the realistic rendering.
“Standard”

With outlines

It also has some other options for watercolour and sketches

V-Ray has some options for outlines too

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Oh wow! thank you that is super helpful! I have used vray before but did not know I could have the outlines on. Would you happen to know the setting for that? I appreciate your advice!! Thanks again

You’re welcome!

You have to be in “CPU” rendering mode for those to show I think

As @Elmtec-Adam said. Now, too, with the new Environment and Photoreal Textures features, combined with Ambient Occlusion, I think that you can get quite near the look in plain SketchUp 2025, with some tweaking.

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Was thinking the same thing.

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I will definitely check this out. Thank you so much Adam! I appreciate it!

@Anssi Hi there! I am trying those out, but its hard to get the reflections right and tweak the lighting. But yes
the new features are great!

hello,
you can also use sketchup diffusion from sketchup labs that has sketchy presets

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I use this look a lot as well. What I do is export the view with the extended lines from Sketchup and combine the layers with output of my render.

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thats a great tip. Thank you :blush:

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Oh that’s very nice Dave.

Thank you Mike.

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Love your work!!
Thank you for the advise! Im hoping to use the features on v.2025 too to achieve this. Its more for conceptual design and I do not want to spend much time using renderers like vray etc. Thanks again :slight_smile:

Thank you.