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Rendering Commercial Exterior (Night)


This course will walk through step-by-step the process of producing a photo-realistic exterior rendering at night of a commercial building with lighting inside. You will learn how to use the interfaces for 3DS Max and VRay plugin, create basic and intermediate materials and work with texture mapping. You will also work with exterior and interior lighting techniques, setting up a camera and adjusting render settings and render outputs.
Best for:

Designers looking to learn how to create amazing, photorealistic exterior renderings of a commercial building straight from Revit.

Difficulty:
Duration:
2.5 Hours

Learning Objectives


  1. Produce quick test renders
  2. Apply, Create & Edit Vray textures
  3. Adjust Camera Settings
  4. Set up Daylighting & Dome lighting
  5. Create and Edit Light Fixtures in Revit
  6. Create IES Lights
  7. Apply Lens Effects
  8. Create atmospheric depth

Course Modules


Begin outputting renders with basic settings to be able to test updates to the scene towards a final output.
  • 01 | Introduction
  • 02 | Basic Render Settings
  • 03 | Vray Sun Lighting
  • 04 | Dome lighting
  • 05 | Camera Settings
Introduction to how materials work with Vray in Revit and techniques to generate realistic materials and map them in the scene.
  • 01 | Intro to Material Browser
  • 02 | Create Basic Material
  • 03 | Edit Basic Material
  • 04 | Material Mapping
  • 05 | Create advanced material
  • 06 | Material Override
Quick overview of creating cameras and rendering from Revit.
  • 01 | 3D View
  • 02 | Camera View
  • 03 | View Settings
  • 04 | Artificial Lights Dialogue
Overview of lighting a scene using artificial lights from Revit families.
  • 01 | Intro to Lights in Revit
  • 02 | Emissive Materials
  • 03 | Basic Lighting
  • 04 | Editing Light Family
  • 05 | Creating IES Light
  • 06 | Family Types
  • 07 | Street Lights
Finishing touches to the render to add more atmosphere and reduce the load on post-processing.
  • 01 | Aerial Perspective
  • 02 | Environment Fog
  • 03 | Lens Effects
Add render elements and adjust settings for final render and save output files.
  • 01 | Render Channels
  • 02 | Adjust Render settings
  • 03 | Saving and Compiling

Skills and Careers



Produce Photo-realistic Renders


Rendering


Visual Effects


Visualisation


Design Experience

These are some great careers that this course will prepare you for:

3d Parametric Design And Visualisation Specialist, Architectural visualiser, Product visualiser, Visual effects artist

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Meet the Author

Oliver Hessian


Visualisation Specialist

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