I’ve spent some time creating each of our products in Sketchup and would now like to render them out for our website (using vray).
I’m sure i’m missing something really easy here. All I’m trying to do is have each product against a plain white background with a simple shadow.
Each product is saved as a component so my thinking was I could drag and drop each of the products one by one and render them out. This way all the products will be rendered from the same exact view point / angle and have similar shadows etc.
Think about how you’d photograph the products if you were using a camera. Set up a white seamless backdrop and light the product as well as the backdrop to get the appearance you want. That’s how these were done.
I don’t use vray so I’m not going to be a lot of help with setting it. I use Kerkythea instead.
As for the seamless background, yes, large round corners will help. I used three spotlights for the little table and set them so they would cast very soft shadows. Generally I look for enough shadows to ground the piece and nothing more.
It would have been best to create a SketchUp model template file, with the “photoshoot” scene page already set up. But I suppose you can still do this and insert each component into a new file using the “photoshoot” template.
So, do one of them, (get it right) and save it. Then re-save by deleting the component instance, purging the component definitions, and File > Save As Template… (You can first set the template’s name and description in the Model Info > File panel if you will wish to see these in the template picklist later.)
Then use the template to process each component for rendering.
(2) Common Camera or Scene page
Your other alternative, would be to use a camera saving extension. To import a common camera setup to each file.
I think Christina wrote one. Yes this is the EW product page:
If you do this inside each component file, I’d suggest creating two scene pages, one for “work/editing” and the other for the “photoshoot” camera setup.
