[Edward Leibnitz]

I'm a hobbyist but I did use Rhino for modelling my apartment renovation. Recently I decided it would be fun to take the utilitarian render and upscale it to be "as photorealistic" as possible. It's going great, however I'm running into a problem.

All I want to do is have a nice view out my windows, so the place doesn't look like it is floating in space (apartment is on the 4th floor of a 7-story building). I tried those free wireframe models for houses and trees, but it's turning out to be lots of aggravation with the horizon and ground plane of course I can't populate the entire neighborhood with these things - it's overwhelming the scale of the original.

Is there a "pro-trick" someone can tell me about? An environment wallpaper or something. I don't want to get bogged down with this - isn't there an easy way?

One more thing - certain settings are required to use "Sync with Rhino Sun" so this might limit some choices.

Thanks a bunch for any advice!

-Ed

[Edward Leibnitz]

One more thing - I live in NYC, so an urban scene is needed.

[Mark Bell]

Hi Ed,

I wouldn't class myself as a Maxwell Pro, but I had a similar situation on a project recently and took the following approach:

Take a photo of the view from your unit window and apply it to a vertical plane/polygon as a backdrop, ensuring the proportions of the backdrop plane match the photo. Assign it to BSDF Reflectance 0 in the Material Editor and adjust the scale as needed.
Hope this helps....and post your render when you're done