Realistic Bathroom Design in 30 Minutes | SketchUp + V-Ray Full Tutorial

Hi everyone :waving_hand:,

Want to create a realistic modern bathroom in just 30 minutes? In this full SketchUp and V-Ray tutorial, you’ll learn step by step how to design, texture, light, and render a stunning bathroom scene.

This tutorial is perfect for beginners and intermediate users who want to improve their interior design skills and achieve realistic results using V-Ray for SketchUp.

Here is the Tutorial : https://youtu.be/NEZgAMzPu64?si=6ugTyYKfqVFE26Gq

Firstly - tutorials with just music and no ‘step-by-step’ structure or instruction, to me, are unwatchable and not useful at all. They work ok for timelapse and shorts…but that’s about it.

Also, the title is misleading as the video is 30 mins but to learn to model, setup V-Ray settings/assets/lights, and render in 30 mins is not ‘realistic’ at all. Ugh.

I agree with Eric. Your video is not a tutorial. Describing it as one is misleading.

Always interesting to watch tutorials, but thanks for watching it first @eric-s , saved me 30 minutes of my time :ok_hand: :nerd_face:

Just because the video uses music instead of voice-over instructions doesn’t mean it’s not useful. Many people actually prefer this type of content and can still learn visually by following the workflow

As for the 30-minute duration, the space was relatively small and I used ready-made V-Ray materials and assets, which helped speed up the process. Rendering time also varies from one device to another depending on hardware and render settings.

Also, the video was never intended to be a full in-depth V-Ray course, but rather a quick workflow showcase and scene creation process.

In the end, if this style of content doesn’t suit your way of learning, that’s completely fine — but it can still be useful for others
As for calling the video misleading, I think it’s better to first consider the context and nature of the content before making that judgment.

It’s a bit unfair to call someone’s work “misleading” simply because the format doesn’t match your personal preference. While it may not suit everyone’s learning style, many others still find value in it :blush:

After more than 40 years as a teacher of photography, 25 years as an instructor of anesthesiology, and 20 years as an authorized SketchUp instructor, I do think I have a pretty good idea of what makes a good tutorial.

Firstly, I get how hard it is to make high quality and relevant content and then put it out online for the world to see and judge. So credit where it’s due.

Re: ‘Misleading’ - It was this sentence that stood out to me. There is a difference between the time it takes us to watch you do it (talking us through the steps would take longer of course) and the time it takes to learn it/do it ourselves. It is misleading at worst, or presumptuous at best, that the expectation is that a beginner would be able to replicate this workflow in that time frame. In fact, the time itself is irrelevant to the topic. If it takes 3 hours it takes three hours. Or if it takes a beginner 3 hours and an intermediate one 2, it’ll vary. It’s clear from just seeing the video without starting it that it’s 30 min in length - no need to emphasize the obvious here to sell us on clicking the link.

Secondly, as Dave and I pointed out, it is very much not perfect. If it was I’d be the first to like, comment, share and subscribe to your channel. I’ll concede that some viewers may enjoy your particular music tastes and guessing at what it is you’re doing and why - like a fun mystery game! - but others (which is why in my original post I said ‘to me’) do not.

Ultimately, and I am aware you did not ask for feedback or advice here (and again to me), a good tutorial should have at least the following three things:

  1. Set clear and realistic expectations - In this case a better title would be ‘Watch me model a bathroom and render in 30 mins’…or ‘From SU model to finished render in 30 mins’. These don’t set the expectation that I should be able to learn anything or recreate the steps along with you.
  2. Provide a perspective - AI now can do most of what we V-Ray renderers can do - except have a voice. You’re missing the one thing that sets YOU apart from the 10 million videos (AI or human) out there online already. Why are YOU making this video? What experience do YOU have that gives you credibility and therefore builds trust? What tips and tricks have YOU picked up from YOUR experience? Even if I’m proficient in V-Ray already, I might watch just to learn or appreciate a different point of view.
  3. Provide useful skills - Demonstrate technical mastery at solving a relevant problem designers today face. I’ll give you this one. Without watching the video, the model appears well constructed and the final render does look good. 1 out of 3.

Take the comments or leave them. I just felt like it was a bait and switch as my expectations were high and then deflated quickly and thought I’d share in the event its helpful.

Unrequested $0.02 here, but I was caught by the “step by step” promise of the video… I am fine with time lapse/speed modeling videos and watch them regularly. I also know a thing or two about modeling videos including making successful how-to videos.

This video is well made, but really does not deliver on step-by-step training and is a good video showing how you use SketchUp/V-ray.

Own that!

Your video does a job, just not the one you said it would in your post.

wow, in this economy ? :slight_smile:

I’ll second that. Had a look at the video, it’s an ok speed modelling, and not a very good tutorial, because you don’t explain what you do.

Ideally, you would need to (at least) add text infos on screen telling us what you’re working on / how.

I’ll say, it’s a bit long. that’s a thing tutorials (text or voice) manage well, they grab your interest for the next X minutes.
if a text pops up and says “now we’re gonna make the cupboard” I’ll willing to stay another 3-min . and from there, another 3-4 min. and from there, I’ve watched a 2 hour video on how japanese clay teapots are made.
add chapters, descriptions, it breaks the video into more consumable chunks.

the dream, a field where putting your students to sleep is actually a goal :smiley: