3ds Max and V-Ray – Interior Lighting and Rendering
Release date:2019, March 18
Duration:02 h 06 m
Author:George Maestri
Skill level:Beginner
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
Explore the lighting, shading, rendering, and compositing features of using 3ds Max and V-Ray. This course covers how to generate high-quality project renderings. Find out how to create daytime or nighttime lighting. Examine the benefits and limitations of different lighting methods by leveraging built-in camera lighting and adjusting the lighting settings in a modeled environment. Next, see how to render a scene and then take your render layers into Photoshop, where you can use painting and compositing tools to add light and shadows. Finally, learn how to finalize your image for output.
Topics include:
Types of exposure compensation
Whether to use photometric lighting
Adding sunlight
Adjusting auxiliary lights
Balancing lights
Rendering passes using State Sets
Adding an ambient occlusion pass
Adding reflection and selection pass
Creating and adjusting flames
Simulating firelight
Illuminating a floor lamp
Rendering for mattes
00. Introduction
01 – Critical techniques for lighting interior spaces
02 – How to use the example files
01. Setting Up the Scene
03 – Set up V-Ray
04 – Use exposure compensation
05 – Whether to use photometric lighting
02. Lighting for Daytime
06 – Preliminary camera placement
07 – Add an environment.en.srt
07 – Add an environment
08 – Set up environmental lighting
09 – Add sunlight
10 – Auxiliary lights
11 – Fill lighting
12 – Balancing lights
03. Daytime Rendering and Compositing
13 – Render passes using state sets
14 – Add an ambient occlusion pass
15 – Set up reflection pass
16 – Add a selection pass
17 – Final render
18 – Layering the composite in Photoshop
19 – Adjust reflections in Photoshop
20 – Add light and shadow in Photoshop
21 – Final touches
04. Lighting for Night
22 – Set up an environment
23 – Add environmental light
24 – Create flames
25 – Simulate firelight
26 – Illuminate a floor lamp
27 – Add auxiliary lighting
28 – Finalize with fill light
05. Night Rendering and Compositing
29 – Set up render passes
30 – Add an ambient occlusion pass
31 – Set up reflection pass
32 – Add a selection pass
33 – Render for mattes
34 – Final render
35 – Adjust layers in Photoshop
36 – Adjust reflections in Photoshop
37 – Adjust flames
38 – Final touches
06. Conclusion
39 – Next steps
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