Yes, the truck is from the warehouse. Thanks for the kind words. I did use Skatter for the pebbles, trees, grasses and potted plants. I can’t imagine the hustle without Skatter here.
My hardware is a bit dated (Core i5 at 4 cores, 3.1ghz and a modest 8gb ram) thus optimization is very necessary. Vray 3.4 Sketchup gives you a bar to slide to ‘adjust render quality’ and thus far, I have found none of it works well (either too noisy or too long render times). A native denoiser was added to the Sketchup vray but it doesn’t work very well on this machine. Again, I prefer bucket rendering over progressive rendering and primarily IR map+LC. I tried Brute force+LC but no good results so far in the time that the other option gives. So til I get better hardware I’m going to stick to the good old Vray 2.0 ways.
I’ve used Thea before and loved it! I agree it’s unbeatable especially when using a nice graphics card+CPU and in my opinion, it gives better glare+bloom and more artistic freedom. Lumion 8.3, I’ve seen really nice work done on that (I used Lumion ver 5 and the improvement is huge) but for stills I prefer Vray for stills. I don’t mind the 2 hours really, as long as the end is pleasant.
@Thomas, I believe this could help someone here as well. And I like the layout of this forum more than chaosgroup!
Here’s one of the images, with LUT and some glare+bloom applied…
