Enscape & AI Enhancement | Modulus Render

[Music] so I wanted to do a quick tutorial because I posted this image on Instagram and I got a lot of questions and a lot of responses and a lot of views and I wanted to address this and of explain uh very fast how I did it and how anyone can improve their renders with uh with a little bit of AI I'm not supporting 100% using uh AI tools from the start I just think it's not there yet but it's improving quite a lot and uh in my case I just wanted to enhance a little bit the materials uh in ncape especially the ones that are not uh photo realistic enough so uh examples like glass Reflections fur carpet um what else maybe cost stics maybe details in the Fabrics uh vegetation so there's a lot of things that that I think this method could help with so uh let's just see what I did I'll walk you through the model and in uh SketchUp so basically I just wanted to have a nice looking carpet uh closeup maybe with a chair uh in the foreground something like this and to do this someone asked me what did I use for the or if I used scatter to to put the hairs or the fabric on the on the carpet but I actually did something else here as you can see it's a big black box with uh let's call it a soft box over here like a dome light and it's actually have a sphere with white on the inside the White is an emissive material I think yeah it's it's an emissive material and then I just spread add some um lights in it to act like a soft box so let's see luminous power of the dis lights something like this of course you can adjust it and some spotlights to give me some highlights and I have a reflective surf surface over here to bring back some um details over here because the chair is very dark and and it's covered in Shadows so I just wanted that and this is basically it for for the lighting now for the carpet as I said I didn't use scatter to put some um strands on on this carpet what I did is I scaled everything 10 times so this coffee table here has 320 CM so I scaled everything 10 times because I just used a grass material on this well a carpet material basically the same and because everything is scaled um so big then the little carpet Fabrics or strands or hairs or whatever you want to call them these are very little are very uh they have a different scale so if you use grass or you use carpet uh they're very they're fine like they're they're smaller and they look better and uh it just looks more realistic because if if you work in a one to one scale like a normal scale in in SketchUp and you put hair or carpet on something you can't make it smaller than 0% basically obviously but here if you scale everything 10 times bigger then you can adjust or go even lower on the scale so I I'll just show you how that looks uh just an important tip or or thing to keep in mind don't model your scene with the lights in it and then scale it uh with the lights do not don't ever scale the lights because they won't become bigger or they won't become more powerful so scale your scene your 3D model and after that do the lighting in the big version or in the scaled up version Let me just start andscape and show you uh how it looks you see you have the big soft box over there because of course because of the Shadows it creates so you see here just some great looking soft shadows and just move this and of course on the little marble coffee table everything is beveled and as you can see the carpet material the strands here are very very small and fine and they look really great and they're smaller than uh normal basically that's the only uh way I could explain it uh you scale your model and then you have finer strands of uh carpet material or grass material just looks better and the scene I wanted to make is something like this right and I wanted to see how uh I could improve the the carpet material with uh with AI so let's just jump into the cool stuff just hit render and uh start your AI engines now the big question everyone has been asking me what AI did you use so I tried two AI engines Kaa or Kaa and magnific and I stuck with with kab well it's cheaper and uh it gave me pretty good results so this is the the main uh page and they have home generate and enhance now for this uh I used the enhance option of the AI I didn't generate anything and I'll show you how amazing this looks I don't really get excited about AI but this was really interesting and I'll I'll show you what I mean because I loaded as you can see here on the left I I did a lot of tests on on a lot of um different renders and a lot of them are made with with andscape but some of them are from uh Thea render some of them are made with uh keyshot or lumion or vray so you can basically use this method on on any render you have any photograph you have so not necessarily A render and it will improve some aspects of the image so uh what I did is I loaded my image over here which is this one and you have an upscaling Factor on the right so it it increases the resolution of your uh image if you want so for me I just kept it at 1X so I didn't want the image bigger or enhanced and then in the settings I didn't do anything so I literally just pushed a button to see how it works because it generates this prompt automatically and of course I I played around and you can change it and get uh different results we I'll show you those in a minute and then I just left everything default I know I'm supposed to fiddle around and and just change stuff and see how it goes and but I didn't I just pushed enhanced I'm sorry that's all I did I didn't even look at the settings I just started using this website I didn't know there were settings here I just put my image and clicked on enhanced now I played with the settings in other photos but for this one I just clicked enhanced and you click enhance and then this is what it does let me just zoom in so it really really did a good job on the carpet here especially you can see how big of a difference this material compared to this material is so this is just it blew my mind now it affected the whole image and I'm not happy with the results on the other materials like like here I really like this kind of cool cup or ashtray or whatever it is but it kind of super enhanced it right the the leather on this uh worn book became would for some reason but it doesn't matter because all I was looking for is the carpet material the fabric the the rug right that looks just it looks great so what I did is I just pushed enhanced and then I downloaded the the image and I went into Photoshop and in Photoshop let me just move myself from there like this and in Photoshop I just put the enhanced image over the other one and if you have a clown pass you can just select the carpet material and make a mask I just did it manually so just do a mask let me see here roriz and then create a mask let's do a mask with white material over it and just or black and just mask out what we don't want in the image so I don't want it to affect the other materials I'm just going to do like a very bad job at masking here but this is just a fast tutorial so you get kind of the idea of what I did of course I worked a little bit more carefully with masking everything because I didn't want everything to be very sharp and enhanced like um this AI tool usually does even here the the uh the leather was change to plywood for some reason so it just you know it's not perfect but uh for what I needed it to be it was just great and you just mask out whatever you don't need I could have just masked the the carpet so I did a reverse mask it doesn't matter so you just mask out uh the stuff that you don't want in the picture or the stuff that you want in the picture and that is it and it did a pretty good job on the carpet material I mean there's no way I could have done this material or or made it look so good with just andscape probably would have taken me a lot of Photoshop work but I want to show you back in the Kaa AI some other examples that I did and you just put them into Photoshop and just mask out what you want and choose uh the elements that you want to be enhanced just go back here so this was for the carpet I'll show you some other examples that were really interesting uh for example in this one uh as you can see the like the the enhanced image was just too much just just very sharp very everything was kind of uh more enhanced or on steroids even but the interesting thing is the details on the cushions so if you just look at the cushions at this white material how it became more uh like wrinkled more uh real it really looks good so what I would do is just uh get the this image in Photoshop and just mask the the fabric and keep everything as the original image you see the the the throw here on the sofa just became a lot more detailed which is really cool and another interesting thing is uh for uh plants so this plant I think it's 3D Warehouse it just made it look so much better and then yes you do need a little bit of Photoshop work to mask everything out but I mean to get this straight from 3D it's a lot of work and sometimes it's not even worth it um in this one for example the the wrinkles I just wanted to see how far it would take the the wrinkles on the bed so it it did again an amazing job and in this case I could even use the whole image I don't have to mask anything out but it just went nuts on the on the wrinkle another thing that enscape has trouble with is glass and colored glass is even harder but in this case you see how this is the original image and then the enhanced glass looks really good so I would just mask out everything but the glass and just keep the glass because you know even though though there are some cool um like some damage in in the wood some cool um scratches that are added you know you can keep those but other than that I I wouldn't use I wouldn't use the whole image you know I just wouldn't do enhance and then yeah this is the final render no I would definitely go into Photoshop and mask things out because it really did a good job on on the glass over here another interesting or or cool uh thing about this is the small details it adds to Fabrics so in this case I did a tutorial a while back about velvet and because there is no falloff material in andscape you kind of had to use lighting and and fake it a little bit but in this case I just told the prompt um a blue velvet chair sits in a white room with a plant and the light so it just uh The Prompt that was automatically generated just said a blue chair sits in a uh room with with a plant and I just put in the word velvet and hit enhance and I'll show you what it did first you see the the plant was enhanced and it looks really nice some cool subsurface scattering going on and a little a little bit more detail on the leaves but if we take a closer look at the Velvet you'll see how nice this looks like I mean it added some some cool realistic looking folds in there some crushed velvet uh texture so it really did a good job you see before and after this is really cool and just mask out the chair and put it in the original render because again I I don't like what it did to the floor for example or how uh strong the the Shadows are and there's kind of a a line over here so it's not perfect but used locally it could do a lot of good and another cool one that I did was this one with uh this is rendered in in andscape also it's uh Snake Eyes from GI Joe don't ask me why anyway uh so I I rendered this and it looks pretty you know faded doesn't have a lot of details and then Korea AI just put in a lot of interesting you know metal leathery damage stuff in here and it just looks it even added some details in the helmet so it's really cool just use it wisely leave a comment below if you found this information useful don't forget to subscribe and hit that like button and I'll see you in the next tutorial n

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Length: 20min 9sec (1209 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 30 2024