Proxy Trees For Sketchup




In this Vray 3.6 for SketchUp tutorial, learn to use Vray proxies to create high quality renderings with high polygon models without slowing down your SketchUp models!

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In today’s video, we’re going to talk about using Vray proxies to speed up your rendering models.
Basically, a proxy is a replacement within your model that is used to take the place of a high polygon model. This can be especially useful because SketchUp doesn’t always handle very high polygon models very well. However, that being said, usually the most realistic models for rendering are also high polygon, so we can use proxies to bring those items into our renderings without having to bring them into SketchUp.
Vray allows you to export your object as a proxy file, will import as a normal mesh at render time only.
Let’s say, for example, that we want to render these 3 trees (trees are from Skatter’s model library). They’re very detailed, and contain a LOT of geometry. If you look at the model size for just these 3 trees, it’s over 61 MB. If we were to add a lot of these trees, our SketchUp model would quickly become unusable from just the amount of geometry in the trees.
I do want to note that Skatter also has some built-in tools for creating render only models that we’ll discuss in a future video. However, in this case, I want to focus specifically on Vray Proxies.
What I want to do is export each one of these trees to a render proxy model (or a VRMesh file). That way, when we create our render, Vray can reference these models, but without all of the geometry being in our actual model.
When we click the create Vray proxy button, we’re going to be given a series of options. These will affect the size of the object that’s left in your model once you export your proxy. Basically, they allow you to pick how realistic the proxy that’s left is.
You basically are given 3 options for how the proxy is created.

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  • Face Skipping – This is the fastest and lightest weight proxy you can create. It will simply display random faces from your original mesh.
  • Vertex Clustering – This method uses a grid to reduce the amount of geometry in your proxy model. It doesn’t necessarily keep all the fine details, but creates a decent approximation of your object.
  • Refined Clustering – This is a two step process within Vray – it uses vertex clustering to start your proxy creation, then finishes your proxy off with an algorithm. This creates the most detailed proxies, but also the slowest.

You can also adjust the number of number of faces created in your proxy using the proxy slider.
Overwrite existing files allows you to save over any mesh file that might exist in your model in the location you’re trying to save.
Replace object with proxy will swap out your selected geometry with your proxy. Otherwise, this will create your Vrmesh, but it won’t remove the base geometry from your model.
You can adjust the way that your proxies preview in your Vray asset editor – there are options for

  • Proxy Preview – Shows your proxies exactly as you created them
  • Whole Mesh – Displays the original object geometry within your model. Note that this can be very slow
  • Bounding Box – this creates a box within the boundary of the object group – it’s basically good for showing the location of your proxies without showing your details
  • Point (Origin) – shows basically 4 points at the boundary of your proxy, as well as the proxy origin point of the axes
  • Custom Preview – theoretically the idea behind this one is to allow you to change the proxy file without updating the preview geometry

Note that you can also import proxy objects into your models in much the same way that you can import components, allowing you to create a library of objects that you can import later. However, you’re also going to need to export your materials for import into your object in the future. I’m going to cover this in my next video.

WHERE TO GET TREES for your SketchUp Models

In this tutorial, we’re going to talk about some of the places you can go to get trees for use in your SketchUp models!

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Proxy Trees For Sketchup Tools

In this video, we’re going to talk about some of the options you have available in SketchUp to add trees and vegetation to your models. The first thing you have to ask yourself is what you’re using the trees for, as this can dramatically effect what you’re looking for. If you’re looking for trees for a photorealistic rendering, you’re going to have to look for much more detailed trees than if you’re doing a house model and are looking for simple 2D face me plants.

  1. 3D Warehouse – There are thousands of tree models, both 2D and 3D, available with a simple search. However, you do have to be careful, as some of the models in the 3D warehouse can have quite a large file size. My recommendation as you find models that you like is to create a collection and start saving models to it for easy access later.
  2. Laubwerk Extension – You can download it from the link in the notes above – there’s a free version of this extension that can generate several different kinds of trees. This one is interesting because it brings the trees in as proxy objects in your model, meaning that you never actually see the geometry in your SketchUp model, but instead you just export it to a rendering program like Vray or Thea Render, and the rendering program renders the trees. This avoids dealing with slow SketchUp models trying to render all the geometry from the branches and faces.
  3. Skatter – Skatter is a geometry scattering extension that allows you to randomly scatter objects across geometry. It comes with the ability to load proxy components, which also means that you won’t slow your computer down to the point of unusability.
  4. Post-Processing using Photoshop – Photoshop actually has the ability to generate trees built in, so this can be a pretty easy process.

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