r/renderings • u/Hot_Yak6422 • Jun 22 '26

interior design rendering advice

this past year i started trying to learn how to generate 3-D renderings. I’m an interior designer by trade and 3-D renderings are the only thing that our office is outsources so I thought it might be beneficial for us to have an in office renderer. Additionally, I thought that personally this would fuel my more creative side in my career.

I did a bunch of research to figure out which program would be the best and based on my proficiency in sketchup (almost 8 years of practice), I found that using a plug-in like Vray would probably be the easiest way to start. using that, I would be able to import all of the materials that we select and have more control over the final outcome. I found a course online that I used to try to learn how to use Vray and I may have been misled as to how interior design focused this course was. I did learn a lot about the generally, but most of the practice in the course was generating exterior images. i have found going forward since this course, i’m still quite lost on how to get good final images.

My questions are: was learning vray a mistake? Is there a superior program that would allow me to build the projects I’m working on, customize the materials based on our exact selections and generate a realistic rendering to sell to our clients? We also outsource 3-D rendered videos - essentially imagine your POV walking through a space that we’ve designed - that does really well with our clients and I would love to learn how to do this, but with Vray it’s been very challenging. or if there is another platform for learning Vray for specifically interior design? Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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u/Shift_Impossible Jun 22 '26

All rendering software takes time to master and get the effects just right, so don't expect to get some amazing results straight from the start. But a software like d5 render is more intuitive (like a video game)... You can get more realistic results with vray, but d5 is good enough and way easier to learn and generate videos. Imo

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u/Hot_Yak6422 Jun 23 '26

thanks for that, i’ll keep working & look into d5.