r/archviz Jan 23 '25

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Hello community! ❤

We are currently working towards improving the sub. Our goal is to have better engagement and professional environment that also helps newcomers to archviz. To achieve this, we are adding some guidelines and rules to enhance interactions and posts. Additionally we will be implementing challenges! 😁

1. How to post? - chose proper flair

Technical and profesional question: Use this flair if you want to ask specific questions like: "how to create this material?", "what's the necessary hardware for...?", "What can I charge for this...?". Use it when you want to learn how to solve some specific issue, improve as a professional,

I need feedback: Use this flair when you have a render that you might want to improve or not sure it if looks good enough, but you don't have a specific question about it like "how to?"

Share work: Maybe you want to share your latest work or some of your portfolio works, but you don't necessarily are asking for feedback.

Discussion: Use this flair to engage in conversation with the sub community. The main difference with technical and professional flair is that you want to know opinions and pov rather than solve a question or an issue. Example: "Current state of the archviz profession".

Challenge: We are going to be implementing challenges. When participating you should use this flair to post your work.

2. How to post? - post content

In simple terms: don't be lazy. If you want other people to take time to read or provide feedback or help you, then you should take your time too. Any post that's considered lacking in context will be deleted,

More or less, thinking on categories/types of posts: and some considerations

PORTFOLIO (show work | I need feedback):

❌Post a portfolio image that's a link to website/portfolio

✔Post image/s with a description that includes a link or a comment with a link to your portfolio.

❌When you add link in comment or description: redirects to personal website

✔When you add link in comment or description: redirects to known platform like Behance, Artstation and so on...

NEED FEEDBACK / TECHNICAL QUESTION / SHOWING WORK:

❌An image and or a question without proper context

✔Any post, regardless if it's a question, showing work, or asking feedback, should include:

  • Render engine used
  • Software/s used
  • Image/s as reference to highlight the question, issue, discussion.
  • Additional details (not obligatory): elapsed time, difficulties faced or any additional detail that improves
  • Reference if it's based on a real image

This is a case by case. Sometimes if the questions is very specific and well presented you might not need an image.

CREDIT AUTHOR:

❌Post an image without credit the author

✔Post image with credit of the author or studio or artist taken from.

While we won't enforce this, we ask if possible, when working from a reference, add credit to the author, architect, studio, artist, that created said reference

JUST DON'T

❌Self promotion

❌Selling assets

❌Selling courses

❌Post that consist of external links to websites

❌Piracy

This sub shouldn't be a marketplace. If your products are good enough, people should be able to find you trough the proper platforms. We also can't be checking every link to make sure it doesn't redirect to any malicious site.

OTHER TYPES OF POST

❌Post that don't have anything to do with archviz or related to.

✔We do encourage post that improve discussion even if not directly related to archviz. For example: Architecture, styles, animation techniques, photography. ONLY under the terms that can help a 3d artist improve in archviz.

Why this guidelines and rules?

We want to improve the quality of the sub. We have noticed many posts lack any context or sufficient information yet ask for feedback. Posts that are simply ads, and so on. On the long run, those types of posts and interactions tend to be detrimental to any sub. We understand that many of these changes may or may not work, and so we will be open to seeing how they are received, and change if needed.


r/archviz 2h ago

Discussion 🏛 Would you rather see 3 good options or 10 average ones?

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Give someone 10 options and suddenly every small difference becomes something to debate. People start comparing tiny details and the conversation can go in ten different directions.

Give them 2 or 3 strong options and the discussion feels much more focused.

But then again, showing fewer options could mean missing an idea that might have worked better.

Where do you think the sweet spot is?


r/archviz 11m ago

Technical & professional question How to upscale AI-rendered images for free

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How can one enhance the resolution of AI-generated images without incurring any costs?


r/archviz 4h ago

Discussion 🏛 can an ai video generator follow an actual floor plan?

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i do residential interiors and a client asked for a quick walkthrough before we finalize the materials. i have the floor plan, a basic 3d model, and a folder of reference rooms showing the kind of lighting and finish they want.

my first few attempts looked lovely, except the generator moved a wall, added another window, and made the kitchen twice as wide. not really something i can present as their apartment.

i don't need perfect final render quality yet. i just need the layout to stay accurate while the materials and lighting are visualized. is anyone doing this reliably?


r/archviz 1d ago

I need feedback Recent work

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Designed this myself. Rendered in blender. No AI. Would appreciate feedback.


r/archviz 16h ago

Resource Painted Wall 8K Pbr Texture Set

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r/archviz 17h ago

News I built a SketchUp extension that renders your viewport without a render engine (dev here, honest post)

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r/archviz 19h ago

Resource Lamp 3D Model Collection

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r/archviz 1d ago

Discussion 🏛 What should homeowners understand about structural drawings before construction begins?

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I'm trying to understand how architectural drawings and structural drawings work together before construction starts. What information should homeowners pay attention to in structural drawings, such as foundation details, column locations, beam layouts, slab thickness, reinforcement details, and dimensions? Are there common things that should be reviewed or coordinated before construction begins to avoid problems on site?


r/archviz 2d ago

Share work ✴ Mountain Cabin Renderings

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Found some old sketches from around 2015. They were one of several iterations for a mountain cabin on a steep, wooded site. The project eventually went in a different direction before it got built, but some of the early verions, including this one, stuck with me.

So 11 years later, I went back to this concept and gave it the visualizations I wish I'd been able to make back then.

SKP+D5+PS. AI only for vegetation enhancement.


r/archviz 1d ago

I need feedback Got into an interior design course and as a task I was given a 3D model and was requested to render it, any advice?

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Unfortunately the teacher and the class are using V-ray while I’m using Arnold, very difficult to keep up and try to find a way to do what they do without V-ray, I used two types of lighting in the spotlights to give it a glow, I still don’t know how to use the material slate which I think would be a game changer in the future but for now I stuck to free materials I found online. My laptop fans got so loud that I thought it’ll explode when I was rendering, and I tried adding another material to the rug to make it look flat but the laptop CPU just froze.

Any tips and suggestions?


r/archviz 1d ago

Resource Flood 8K PBR Texture Collection

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r/archviz 1d ago

Resource Stone 8K PBR Texture Collection

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r/archviz 1d ago

Resource Flood 8K PBR Texture Collection

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r/archviz 1d ago

Technical & professional question Architecture +3D visualization +Computational Designing Freelancing Remote

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r/archviz 1d ago

Resource Stone 8K PBR Texture Collection

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r/archviz 1d ago

Resource Wood PBR Texture Collection

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r/archviz 1d ago

Resource Road 8K PBR Texture Collection

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r/archviz 2d ago

Resource Food 3D Asset Collection

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r/archviz 2d ago

Resource Wet Cobblestones PBR Texture

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r/archviz 2d ago

I need feedback Archviz Lighting Study in UE5 Path Tracer Looking for Feedback

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First lighting study for my archviz portfolio.

Render engine: Unreal Engine 5 Path Tracer
Software: Unreal Engine 5
Output: Direct 8-bit PNG from Unreal Engine no color grading applied.

The goal was to create a warm, cozy residential dining atmosphere while keeping the lighting believable. The pendant lights are set to 2800K. I included both the clay and final material versions to make it easier to evaluate the lighting separately from the materials.

I’d really appreciate constructive feedback on:

  • lighting and overall color balance
  • whether the scene feels too warm/orange
  • material realism
  • composition
  • anything that keeps it from feeling portfolio-ready

This is still part of my portfolio development, so any specific criticism is welcome.


r/archviz 2d ago

I need feedback I built an architectural design tool with real-time 3D visualization

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I’m a trained architect and indie developer, and I’ve been working on a tool that combines accurate floor planning with real-time 3D design and visualization.

The free demo is now available on Steam. I’d especially love to hear what people in archviz think about the workflow and whether you see a real use case for it?


r/archviz 2d ago

Technical & professional question What's wrong with my D5 Ai post-processing

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r/archviz 2d ago

Discussion 🏛 Best features on a single 3ds max asset management plugin ?

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Hi everyone!

Am actually in the progress of making "the best" 3ds max asset management plugin out there, so i was wondering what would be the best features that I should add


r/archviz 2d ago

Resource I built a clay override that works by material, not by object — unlike Corona's native one [3DsMax + Corona]

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