Desolate Beauty - SOA Masterclass #15 - Project

SketchUp's Real-Time Rendering Moment: Lumion View, AI Render, and the End of the Export Workflow

SketchUp 2025–2026 has added native PBR materials, AI image generation, and real-time rendering plugins like Lumion View, letting archviz artists produce photorealistic images without leaving the viewport. This collapses the traditional design-to-render pipeline.

Desolate Beauty - SOA Masterclass #15

"Sometimes it's good to be alone. I don't know if it's day or night, but it sure is dark and damp. There's a small wooden boat outside in the lake, floating, alone. The smell of rain and earth and mist makes me feel peaceful, but so does the howling of the wolves in the mountainous jungle behind. The fireplace is illuminating the room behind me. I'm out on the terrace now and the sky is getting clearer, its a full moon, and a bright one. Maybe that's why it seemed dark and bright outside. The water is still, but the mist and the moonlight make it seem as if it's dancing. The hues of green and blue are fading within the darkness, but shining in the moonlight. Such desolate beauty."

Software: 3DsMax, Vray, Photoshop

Posted on 08.06.2015