The way that I approached it was by first painting an area with solid color, in this case orange. There are many ways that the color could be added through Photoshop. Since this is a diagram, I wasn’t concerned about being accurate, therefore allowing me to move fast and only spend a few minutes on this step. Using the image above, set the layer blend mode to “Screen” and simply distort the perspective to match that of the contextual massing. For an added effect, I exported the line work from Sketchup with the face style set to “X-Ray”.Īs a last move to add just a little more texture to the context, I found an image of building lights, and overlayed that texture onto several facades. To help define the forms, I exported line work from Sketchup, inverted the colors so that the line work was white on a black background, and set the layer blend mode to “Screen”. The base rendering was desaturated and darkened by going to “Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation” and by adjusting the levels.Īn aerial image was distorted to match the perspective and then the layer blend mode was set to “Overlay” giving the image a subtle texture. The model was built in Sketchup and rendered in V-Ray. The model consists of basic massing with no window and structural articulation to give me light and shadow information. The 3D model for this diagram is as simple as it gets. Items like annotation and information keys will be added later as I get closer to inserting the illustration into the portfolio. This illustration is meant to study the big picture concept of the programmatic zones and will help me to think through some of the future design moves. At the same time, I know this will eventually be used in presentation materials, so I introduced some quick atmospheric and graphical effects to add a little emotion and give the image some texture.
#Best vray settings for white diagram with shadows and toon update#
The diagram being broken down below is working off of a simple model with almost no detail or structural articulation making it easier to update as the design evolves. I always look to diagrams to help tease out ideas or to clarify my thoughts as early on in the design process as possible.