SketchUp Rendering Using Twilight

Twilight is a very popular and inexpensive third-party renderer for SketchUp. This course shows how to create highly realistic 3D architectural drawings (including interior/exterior elements) with the lights, materials, camera, and render options in Twilight. Author Brian Bradley explains the importance of reflectance in materials, and shows how to manage and save rendering presets, how to correct for perspective, tone, and exposure in the camera, and how to create a variety of material types. The final chapter covers rendering your complete arch-viz scene for a couple types of output, including animation and composites.

Topics include:
Installing Twilight
Adding the Physical Sun and Sky
Employing Point, Spot, and Projector light types
Using light emitting materials
Managing the Quality Presets
Positioning your scene view
Working with the camera's Focal Length setting
Creating diffuse, reflective, and refractive surfaces
Rendering out an alpha mask
Setting up a depth render

Introduction 4m 1s
Welcome 1m 5s
What you should know 2m 10s
Using the exercise files 46s

1. Getting Ready to Render with Twilight 6m 53s
Installing the Twilight renderer 2m 52s
Locating Twilight tools and features 4m 1s

2. Lighting the Place Up 50m 22s
Adding the Physical Sun and Sky 6m 17s
Employing the Point light type 6m 35s
Using the Spot and Projector light types 7m 7s
Adding the IES light type 3m 48s
Using light-emitting materials 6m 59s
Creating image-based lighting using High Dynamic Range Images (HDRIs) 6m 12s
Using Sky Portals for interior global illumination (GI) 6m 43s
Understanding the importance of reflectance in materials 6m 41s

3. Understanding Rendering Presets in Twilight 21m 54s
Exploring Light Transport options in Twilight 9m 18s
Managing the Quality presets 5m 57s
Editing and saving presets 6m 39s

4. Working with the Twilight Camera 22m 8s
Positioning your scene view 3m 23s
Altering projection types 5m 12s
Working with depth of field 3m 59s
Working with focal length 2m 44s
Harnessing tone mapping, exposure, and gamma 3m 59s
Using two-point perspective correction 2m 51s

5. It's a Material World 38m 13s
Introduction to Twilight materials 8m 23s
Creating diffuse surfaces 6m 53s
Creating reflective surfaces 6m 53s
Creating glassy refractive surfaces 9m 28s
Creating watery refractive surfaces 6m 36s

6. Rendering for Compositing and Animation 31m 28s
Rendering for animation 8m 55s
Rendering out an alpha mask 3m 44s
Setting up a depth render 4m 3s
Creating an RGB mask using the Diffuse Texture Pass preset 5m 45s
Working with a composite 9m 1s

Conclusion 1m 13s
What's next? 1m 13s