Hi Pbuz, thanks for your tips! I am starting to think with a "rendering" mind haha. I didn't really understand that my materials would actually reflect light so I added some phong textures and it's turning out a lot better. I turned on the sun/sky environment and it definitely is looking good with a...

Hi CTZn, thanks for your reply! I am rendering in biodirectional PT and I have my environment map set to sketchup background color. If I changed to sunlight do you think it would render more realistically?

Thanks for the replies! I did use reinhard just to get the back hallway to be a little lighter but I can play around with the camera settings! (attached image is the Advantex 100 camera) I imported textures in the materials editor and applied them to my jpegs of finishes, but it doesn't really look ...

Hi Friends, I've spent the past day trying to figure this rendering out, I know it looks unrealistic so I am hoping someone can provide me with a few tricks (hopefully in layman's terms) on how to make it look a little better. I would really appreciate the help! I'm running sketchup 8 and indigo 3.4...