Making of Abandoned building

Aziz 2008-02-08 00:00 tutorial > 3ds MAX > rendering

This work is one of most interesting images I ever did. The idea was a vision from my mind for abandoned building. I felt that I live inside the design and I worked with every single details as if it was the design itself. It was very nice journey with the world of textures and lighting.

LIGHTING

I've used three light's:
1 - target direct light to act the sun light.
2 - Vray light (plane) behind the room window.
3 - Vray light (plane) outside the room in the left side.

LIGHTING

1 - target direct light to act the sun light.

2 - Vray light (plane) behind the room window.

3 - Vray light (plane) outside the room in the left side.

TEXTURING

I've depended 90% on texturing to show the desired look of the abandoned building, So I've worked very deeply with the details of the textures:

1 - Room wall texture:

Wooden part of the wall:

TEXTURING

2 - Table texture:

3 - Floor texture:

4 - Window material:

TEXTURING

5 - Door handle texture:

6 - Bottle material:

7 - Candle stick material:

RENDER SETTINGS

VOLUME LIGHT

Because the volume light is not working with vray shadow in dierct light, so I made two renders passes.
The first pass is normal render with vray shadow but without the volume light.
The second pass rendered with shadow maps and I give all models a black materials by override mtl in the vray general settings to show volume light only in this pass and I've composed the two images in Photoshop.

The final result:

AUTHORS INFO

Author: Aziz - Mind Vision

Author: Aziz

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noor_arch 23:11:38 | 21-08-2009

real nice and realsric thanx . but can u help me to fin out how can i make a glass material for window (exterior) and look like reall??? i'll be thankfull

Making of Abandoned building

This work is one of most interesting images I ever did. The idea was a vision from my mind for abandoned building. I felt that I live inside the design and I worked with every single details as if it was the design itself. It was very nice journey with the world of textures and lighting.

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