How to balance interior and exterior lighting in SketchUp?

Balancing interior and exterior lighting in SketchUp is a challenge many 3D designers face. The question of how to do it recently came up in our IRender nXt forum so we decided to cover it in a blog post.

In the real world, when we look at a structure that has interior lighting, the balance of outside and inside light is effected by numerous variables. Exterior lighting is effected by the time of day, cloud cover, angle of the sun, location to other structures, exterior light fixtures, etc. Interior lighting is effected by windows that let exterior light inside, interior lamps, lights and the wattages of their bulbs.

Several IRender nXt Tools offer an easy way to find the right lighting balance in withen a pre-render or post-render process.

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