Making of My Green Villa

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To make terrain I used paint deformation in editable poly. I used push/pull and controlled the value and size.

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To make railings I used Railclone plugin. I created the line with snaps.

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Trees and plants in this scene are from Evermotion Archmodel VOL 58 and Trees Russia bushes 29_01_09.

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Next, I made proxy for my work. I used very powerful plugin for it (itoo Forest Lite 3) and converted my tree to proxy. To create a proxy You can use the V-ray proxy or some other plugin, there are many of them.

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For grass I used the advanced painter script. You can see first I made the vray proxy (grass) and then opened advanced painter script and selected it. I wanted to paint with it so I selected the paint and scattered the grass. It's important to pay attention and to make 3d max orientation higher, like 90.

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Materials

Concrete is VrayblendMtl. I used Vraydirt for it.

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Wood and glass:

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Ground and rocks

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Lighting

In this scene I used a vray sun only.

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For interior lights I put 3 photometric lights and changed the color mode to halogen warm.

Remember to activate the area shadow in vrayshodows params.

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The shot was rendered with the use of Vray camera.

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I used an irradiance map and the light cache. My PC is based on core i7 930 and rendering time was about 1 hour.

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I recommend to use color correction in the frame buffer window. This way You can control all curves, shadows and exposure.

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Post work

I added volumetric light for my scene in PhotoShop. This is how I created it.
1. Create a new layer, fill it with dark color
2. Change opacity and create long rectangles
3. Go to filter > blur > motion blur and change the angle of them
4. Change the layer mode to screen and set the opacity to 25 %
5. Use eraser tool to remove parts that are not necesarry

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Final render: