It would be awesome if you could switch to a “2D editor” mode where you can drag pictures and posters around on the wall. It’s super frustrating to do this in SweetHome3D. I’m working on a picture gallery wall where I’m hanging a ton of pictures. Are there any better and more modern libraries that I should be using? I do end up downloading a lot of stuff from the sketchup 3D warehouse, but some of the models are huge and have tons of triangles, or they just end up crashing SweetHome3D. The built-in furniture library is quite limited and feels like it hasn’t had a lot of updates since the 90s. I especially need to get better at modeling and creating my own furniture and textures, because that’s an important skill no matter what software I use. But I can’t seem to find anything much better! So I think I just need to get better at using SweetHome3D. I don’t know if this is optimized properly, and I feel like it raytraces the entire house, even if I’m just rendering one room.ĭo y’all use a different program for high quality renders? Or has anyone switched to a more professional application? Is there a paid option that’s a lot better? I’m willing to pay a lot of money to get a license for something that the professionals use. One problem I run into is that renders slow to a crawl whenever I add too many lights. How do I get to PS5, like the beautiful renders you see on Pinterest or Instagram? Is that possible with SweetHome3D? To use some video game analogies: A basic render with no effort looks like a PS1 game, and if you put a lot of effort into it you might get up to PS2 or even a PS3. I feel like I can never get the lighting quite right, and nothing looks “professional”.

I’ve never been very happy with the image renders. I still struggle with a few things, and wanted to start a discussion and get some advice. For example, I used it to figure out the layout of our laundry and bought a cabinet and small bench that perfectly fit in our space. It’s been very helpful for practical calculations. I’ve created and edited some of my own furniture models in Blender.

I’ve been using SweetHome3D for a few years, and have created floor plans for 3 different houses.

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