BASICS · G04

materials that read as real.

Name the material and its finish, not just the colour.

Sample viewhocus render

Drag to compare. Sample view made by the Hocus team; the renders are untouched.

"Wood" gives you a guess. "Pale oak cabinets" gives you oak. Add the finish and it gets closer still: honed, brushed, limewashed, oiled. List the big surfaces first (cabinets, worktop, walls, floor), then anything outside the window.

Hocus applies materials to the surfaces already in your model. It doesn't add new ones.

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Materials "Pale oak cabinets, honed travertine worktop, lime-plaster walls; an olive tree outside"
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Light Soft daylight (interior)

Tip: three to five materials is plenty. Past that, the small ones start to fight.

Try it on your own model.

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