tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85047828059560003972012-02-12T09:52:33.739+04:003dsmax, Mental ray, SketchupRian Rigorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00475902651257902540noreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504782805956000397.post-90866920211019239532011-11-30T02:43:00.000+04:002011-11-30T02:43:39.461+04:00

i was playing with 3dsmax's modifiers the other week and i came up with a generic "radio-flyer" trike. it's still a work in progress. a lot is yet to be re-modified but i was glad i ended up with this result with just 3 free hours of toying around with stacking modifiers on top of each other.

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Copyright of the owner. Click on link below for further information. Here it is. The inspiration for my recent render. After looking for a long time, I've finally found the link. I was browsing contemporist.com recently when I came upon it. Now to give credit for the design here is the link: Herzelia Pituah House

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an update to another update. i'm just playing with the POV. it could be better if it had furniture inside the house. i'll work on that but for now here's looking at it from the deck.

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i've added some lamps. it's a work-in-progress. there's something wrong with one of the lamps. if you can tell me which one i'll gladly share the model to the first two to email or comment. :)

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this scene has long been waiting for me to render it. i don't even know where i got the inspiration for this. it is an actual house. i hope i can remember where i got this. email me if you know the project's name or post a comment below. as always, it is modeled in sketchup and rendered in 3dsmax mental ray. unfinished but i posted anyway. i was just playing around-refreshing my rendering. :)

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the rendering part of my brain is collecting cobwebs and dust. here's a little scene to shake the dust off. i think i'm a little bit rusty though. grass-o-matic was used for the grass and with the proxy script of Master Zap for making things a lot "lighter" to handle. the main lighting is only a HDRi plugged into the sky slot. mental ray glow material for the orbs and for andy's eyes. Click

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here is something for the vacant time wasted in the office.it's just a practice render. mental ray 3.6. modeled in sketchup. empty room. click for higher resolution. empty hallway. click for higher resolution.

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Just as the title says. Night scene. Quick render. It is my first go at this kind of setup. I hope I did it right. Post processed. This one is adjusted to get the bluish tint that is usually found in photographed nocturnal scenes. Settings. Click for higher resolution. As promised last time out, here is the setup. This was lit by an LDR plugged into a skylight and instanced to the

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Finally finished this good old scene. The results are much much better that the first time it was rendered. Changed the POV, the lighting and added some new colors to make it feel livelier than the previous one. It took only 20 minutes to render this at the original render resolution of 1125x1800 pixels with default FG. Out-of-the-box render. This is the post-processed look. Same look and

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This scene is where I got my blog banner. It's the same from my last post Lomo. I got a bit crazy that's why I rendered it the way it is now. Well it's a personal challenge. I needed something to tinker. Anyway, a night render was something that was in my to-do list. Thought this was an interesting set for such and a photo from a magazine where two light bulbs are laid on a parquet floor just

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Been toying around the image processing software lately. Scouring the net for some sort of inspiration and one type of effect has caught my fancy - lomography. It's a photographic look that adds (imho) artistic flare to an image. A somewhat ordinary image like this, which is by the way rendered in 3dsmax mental ray, could be more interesting if given some post-processing magic.3dsmax(mental ray)

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Something to break the IBL stuff around here. I can't be stuck on just one thing so this scene breaks the monotony of irradiance particle and image-based lighting. Here I used the good old (but very useful) mental ray sun and sky. Raw render. Click for higher resolution. Post-processed or I'd like to call it "photographed". :) Click for higher resolution. Raw render. Click for higher

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My irradiance particle "study-mode" is back in action!  I have encountered a very cool site that provides high resolution hdr stuff long before I have gotten myself hooked on this Irradiance Particle thing and the whole image-based lighting gig. It's www.hdrlabs.com. It's where I get my hdri's but I never bothered with the Smart IBL GUI.  To make the long story short, I got bumped in the head and

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Something that's kept me out of the Irradiance Particle testing-learning-testing-learning-thingamajig. This is also posted at http://www.cgpinoy.org.   Click for higher resolution Click for higher resolution The background clouds were not post-processed but plugged into the mr skylight haze slot (like in zap's post).

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What happened to Jeff Patton's website? I can't access the old site with the informative forum and tutorials. I was hoping to look for his sky dome tutorial. Now I won't be able to finish my irradiance particle scene properly. I draw a lot of knowledge from that site. I really hope it would be up and running again with the same information as before and more.

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click to view imageWork has suddenly picked up again and this is the only update I have to offer for this particular scene since my last post. And one "extra-income" (some sketchup modeling stint) which I could never pass up also came along the past weeks. That's the reason why this got bogged down a little. It feels like forever to finish. I really hope to finish this like it should be. Here I

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Here is something new that I have been busy with. All this render-your-exterior-scene-in-unique-way thing has got me to look for alternative ways to make my exterior archiviz stand out. I am greatly pleased with the way ctrl ghost of mental ray renders image-based lighting. But while in the process of "learning" irradiance particle in 3dsmax mental ray rendering for exterior archiviz, I have

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I have gone to a totally different direction with my exterior archiviz test. From my regular lighting solution of using Daylight with mental ray sun and mr physical sky, I have taken a new path - Image Base Lighting using HDRI's through Irradiance Particles. Click for higher resolution A few more adjustments. Somehow, I would have to invest in some decent HDRI's. That would come if only I

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An update of my Irradiance particle study. As it is, I do not have access to hi resolution HDRI's so... any who, I just want to learn how to set-up Irradiance Particle along with Image Base Lighting.

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I feel like a kid on his first bike ride without the rear training wheels. Let me tell you why. While trying to figure out how to make my exterior archiviz render with mental ray better, I have stumbled upon Jeff Patton's entry on making interior renders "unique". Here he recommends IBL with Irradiance Particles. I'm hooked! After 4 hours of tweaking with it here is what I have. I'm still

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I've been around the net looking to challenge myself for something new to render. I've noticed that I haven't posted any exterior renders except for one that I never really got to finish. I have stumbled upon this very nice looking house at http://www.trendir.com. It's called Crockett Residence. Designed by Elemental Design. (Please do not sue me. I do not claim ownership of the design and of

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Hey, is this thing on? Man, it's been quite some time since my last post. Work got in the way. And a long overdue vacation was something I would never trade for. I stayed away from the computer while I was "away" as much as I can just to give myself some space to breathe from everything. I will be posting some stuff in a few days. Ciao!

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For weeks I have been playing around with a very nice sketchup model of a good friend. For such a small scene it is not suppose to take 3 to 4 weeks. But I only toyed with it in between my spare time. I know I would have a good time rendering this one out. And I did. I had a few issues with some of the models which came from the google sketchup 3d warehouse but nothing too serious. The chair,

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I remember this post at cgpinoy. I wanted to test mental ray's DOF and tried to come up with a pure out-of-the-box rendered image without using any post editing. The funny thing was I only had a core 2 duo machine. I cannot  recall how many hours it took but it finished without a problem. I came up with this: Click to enlarge Here is how dof works in mental ray. By the way I've already posted

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This is the first exterior rendering competition that I will be joining. It's quite interesting because I've been a big fan of Stephen King's The Dark Tower novel and the main subject is a tower. I have read all the seven books in the series and I have so many ideas running in my head of how to approach (should I say) the problem just thinking of The Dark Tower. Artwork from the original

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Just keep in mind while watching all of this (in FULL screen) - it is CG. I had to slap myself a few times midway in the (short)film just to keep from drooling. The musical score just lulls you into this dreamy state that convinces you into thinking that the scenes "are" real; the lights, the textures, the ambiance... (are they not?). This is something I can only dream of achieving. I'll just

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I'd like to greet everyone Happy Holidays! I haven't touched my (upgraded) pc at home for a while so I've got no renders to post. Been busy moving flat and work just keeps getting in the way of learning 3dsmax and mental ray. Almost forgot, I happily traded (with some cash) my core 2 duo processor for a core 2 quad. yipee! Again, have a safe holidays everyone!

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I have finally in my possession a reflective ball. It's something that I have been looking for here in the UAE for months now. I have almost given up hope of trying out mental ray's production shader with my own background and reflection images. A good friend (Hey, Glyndon I hope you can read this) told me to wait for Christmas and true enough Carrefour is now selling decors for Christmas and I

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This is my first go at an exterior architectural rendering. It's a work-in-progress. This was started months back when work was not "getting in the way" of learning 3dsmax and mental ray. And then work at the office started to pick up. So I had to finish as much as I can before work really gets in the way. I can't seem to get a good POV at first but I decided to render it anyway. This was modeled

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For those of who would want to see how I worked out the train scene, below is the link to download the 3ds max 2009 file. It's rendered with Mental Ray. I left out the HDRI and some of the materials from the file because they are proprietary stuff. You can easily substitute them with what you have. Anyway, they are properly named so you won't get lost. Forgive my modeling skills, it's something

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I've been scouring the net lately for tutorials on Image Based Lighting. There were several that I've found to be very helpful. Of course I have to try it out for myself. So I exported a model I did in Sketchup to 3ds format as a test subject. It's a simple wooden toy train. If you would take a closer look, the train's wheel are not smooth. I did not use turbosmooth modifier on it thinking it

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Here's my shot at mental ray's production shaders. Modeled in 3dsmax.

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Here are my first few successful(?) attempts at rendering in 3dsmax 2009 using my favorite render engine mental ray.  A bit of disclaimer: I didn't study in any school to do these. I learned it through video tutorials and reading a lot of forums and blogs, most of which are linked here on my site.

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Hello world.I just want to test this with a simple "hello world" text to start my blog.I was thinking of putting up a 3D / CG blog but I thought otherwise. Maybe a few thoughts here and there but I won't be concentrating on it.Until next.

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