More photo realistic renders

[Dave Donley]

Metallic and other reflectivity shaders have clear coat as an option, if you set the clear coat to non-zero we do the layering of the texture for you "under the hood"

 

Here is my attempt at a nice metallic light blue car paint.

Metallic Car Paint.vwx

[grant_PD]

@Dave Donley

That's great! I stand corrected!  Is there an ability to add in a roughness map as well?  it looks like the roughnesses are just generic.  

[Dave Donley]

Hi @grant_PD roughness maps and more maps for textures is on our radar for future improvement.

[VIRTUALENVIRONS]

I am starting to have a renewed interest in Vectorworks rendering.  Water was always somewhat problematic.

 

 

 

 

[VIRTUALENVIRONS]

On 1/13/2025 at 10:42 AM, grant_PD said:

So while you could model this car accurately in vectorworks, and you could give it a glossy blue paint finish, you could not (AFAIK) get the multiple reflections from renderworks.  

I do agree, Vectorworks does not have, but probably does not need the multiple reflections.  Architecture tends to be more flat than reflective.  

I am spending more time with VW's rendering.  I did not really understand backgrounds when I made the animation as I came back to it after ten years, but up to speed now.  I like it.

 

For reflections, adding light sources to the scene will create reflections. 

 

Also, the added light shows something that was not apparent in the animation.  The paint is metallic.

 

[rDesign]

2 hours ago, VIRTUALENVIRONS said:

Architecture tends to be more flat than reflective.

Not true. For example — large panes of architectural glass are both flat (not perfectly) and very reflective. Almost every surface in the real world is reflective to some extent.

 

[BTW this topic has gotten really off-track from the original poster’s question about suggestions for improving the rendering quality of a restaurant interior].

 

 

Edited January 15 by rDesign

[VIRTUALENVIRONS]

Yes, the topic has gotten off track, imagine that, but a lot of it was going towards Vectorworks "not being able to do stuff" as well as other programs.

This always bothers me a bit.  The power of Vectorworks is vastly under used.

[bcd]

For reference here's a Lumion rendering in response to OP's question and using the original file with its VW textures:

 

Timings

• LiveSync VW->Lumion about 5s
• Scene setup in Lumion about 1 minute
• Render in Lumion 25s