Instance your lights based on any kind of particle system. V-Ray Instancer lights distribution - More versatile ways of distributing lights in the scene.More artistic control in post - The V-Ray Frame Buffer now has a sharpen and blur effect to polish final renders.Chaos Cosmos materials - Chaos' collection of render-ready content now also contains materials, which users can use out-of-the-box and also customize their color, bump, gloss and more.Decals - Easily project unique materials onto objects of any shape to create effects like logos, cracks, stains and more.My objective is provide you with techniques that you can start replicating the results in your own images for your own clients.V-Ray 5.2 for 3ds Max is officially available for download now and now contains decals, Cosmos materials, new lighting possibilities and several other improvements to V-Ray. For example tips 1, 2 and 3.Īfter you're done reading and watching, you'll have new techniques to use when creating 3D renders. Notice that some of the tips here can be used in interior visualisation as well.

These are a few of the things I personally do to speed up my workflow and deliver high quality images to my clients. The tips I am going to show you are from the exterior visualisation course but don't worry about that just yet, check out the tips and see if you like them and can use them, because if you don't like them then the course definitely won't be for you. Ready to add grass and bushes, but don't fancy placing each blade of grass one by one :/ Here's how to 'paint grass and plants' using only 3ds Max.ĭo you want step-by-step instructions to implement all these tips?

So here I show you a real quick hack to create fog in Photoshop.ĥ. Fog is cool in any exterior image but can be a pain to set up in 3ds Max.

(this tip even made it into 3D Artist Magazine!)Ĥ. Once you have this light rig set up you can save it and use it to start all your scenes.ģ. Sweet so you have your light set up, but what angle should you have it? Here I explain a quick way to test out your HDRI angles. This is how I start lighting every scene I create. After all we are virtual architectural photographers.Ģ. Use HDRI Lights. Architectural photographers do it so we should do it too. (you can click on the number to jump to a specific tip, welcome to the future 😉 )ġ. These are the tips in no particular order. Here is a quick summary of my blog post so you can decide if this article is for you.

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