3ds Max: Making of Small Restaurant Interior - Tip of the Week

This is a second scene from Archinteriors vol. 52 collection consisting of ten scenes.It is small, cosy restaurant. 

Final render. We have a lightsource from outside and many smaller lights below the ceiling.

Wireframe view.

Final render - camera 2. 

Wireframe view.

3ds Max viewport-  view from camera.

We placed a plane with city view outside.

Plane - emissive material.

We placed light portals in windows that let external light source to lit the interior.

Light portal

Building torn apart.

Most prominent wall is a industrial style brick wall.

Brick wall mesh

Brick wall detail

Brick wall - backface. We removed polygons not seen by camera, to get more space for our textures

Brick wall mesh unwrapped in uv editor

Brick wall was textured in Substance Painter, although in this particular case it was rather importing brick textures to Substance layers and tweaking their intensity a bit. Diffuse layer.

Displacement layer

Bump layer

Normal layer.

Brick wall material was exported from Substance Painter as textures and then plugged into V-Ray material.

Ceiling mesh

Ceiling material

Top view and camera settings

Top view

Angled view

Vray Light Lister - we placed many small lights in the ceiling.

Decoration planks

Decoration planks material

Decoration planks in uv editor

Floor - diffuse layer

Floor - normal layer

Floor - height layer

Floor - bump layer

Floor - small dirt layer

Floor - blurred dirt layer

Render settings