The Making of Apartment Interior

Architect and designer, Virgo Oktaviano from Jakarta in Indonesia, shows how to layout and setup this interior apartment scene. He uses SketchUp and V-Ray for Sketchup with some final post processing in Photoshop to complete this stunning room.

Set Layout and Set The Camera

Layout

Set Camera

Wood Material

Choose the wood material in Diffuse and set the value of Reflection Layer.

1. Hilight Glossiness set at 0.85
2. Reflection Glossiness set at 0.85

Wood Settings

Mirror Material

This material has been modified from clear glass architectural.

To get real reflection in mirror, under Reflection choose TexFresnal and set IOR at 20.0

Mirror Settings

Carpet Material

To set carpet material check Displacement and set the value at 1.2. Click “M” and select Bitmap and choose to saturate bitmap as shown at side.

Carpet Settings

Floor Material

Material Settings

Render Setting

Global Switches

Global Switches

Render Setting

Camera

Camera Settings

Render Setting

Environment

In this case, the setting of GI color and BG color are the same. I use a HDR image for the lighting and the background.

Environment

Render Setting

Indirect Illumination

Indirect Illumination

Original Render

Original Render

Post Production

Just play with Exposure, Color Contrast, Spot Exposure, Ranged Saturation and Chromatic Aberration.

Post Production

Final Result

Final Image

This apartment design was one of my freelance projects. Still done with the same software, SketchUp Pro, V-Ray and Photoshop.

Thanks for reading

Virgo Oktaviano