Making of small office interior - Tip of The Week

Michał Franczak 2015-02-27 11:44 tutorial > 3ds MAX > rendering

Making of scene 1 from Archinteriors vol. 36.

It's rather small office. In such little space lighting is crucial - it's easy to end with claustrophobic look that is not attractive at all. In this case we need many sources that come from different directions. So we used Vray Lights (planes) from variety of directions. This scene was made by Evermotion and comes from Archinteriors vol. 36 collection that is available in Evermotion Shop.

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Final image after post-production in Photoshop

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Wireframe

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This is how interior looks in 3ds Max Viewport. Notice many possibilites of lighting - opening on far left, glass plane on the close left, window on the right, three lamps over the table.

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Props were put even behind glass plane on the left. they are not visible, but cast realistic shadows on the plane.

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Floor plane.

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Floor has quite interesting material. It's vrayBlend material made of base and one coat material, blended with fallof map for greater photorealism.

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Floor base material settings. Composite of color map and Vraydirt is in the diffuse slot, reflection map is controlled by falloff, another subtle map is put in glossines slot.

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Base material is blended with coat material that has slightly higher glossines value.

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Close to the camera, on the left side you can see glass wall. It has square bump pattern. For greater reality glossines is controlled by bitmap with stains

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Gradient ramp settings

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There is a blueprint on a table.

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Blueprint material

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Background plane, visible through the window.

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Background material settings

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Background material map settings

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Lights placement. As you can see - there is one vray plane light on the left (behind glass plane), one behind the camera, one behind terrace window on far left and one behind terrace door. Another plane is put on the right. There are also three lamps over the table. So there is total 8 light sources in this scene.

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Lights - external view.

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Vray Light lister

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Camera settings

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Raw render output

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Passes

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Post production - we added some light glow, corrected levels and shifted saturation of table area to yellow, so there is more warm lighting over the table.

GIF animation of post-production layers

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Render settings

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Final image

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LEAVE A COMMENT

ilmattiapascal 00:54:03 | 02-03-2015

hi there, great work. There is one thing that i cannot understand for the most of your making of tutorials. The floor textures are just perfect, but i can't understand how you can reach the wood variation for each floor element without using multi-texture plugin. It seems too strange to me that only a vrayblend material is able to make the variation between the boards so cool. I asked myself the same question for a lot of other scenes that you put in tutorial, but it's never explained (except when you use the cg source items, like in the winter pavillon tutorial). Can you explain that thing ? thanks!

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dr_After 22:21:32 | 06-03-2015

At holiday at the moment, will respond when I get to desktop! :)

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karthikeyancg3d 12:31:13 | 07-03-2015

HOW MUCH TIME TOOK FOR RENDER WITH THAT SUBDIVISION IN LIGHTING.MAN GREAT WORK WITH LESS NOISE GREAT

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dr_After 14:08:58 | 11-03-2015

Floor tezturing: there is one floor texture, but every board is moved by hand in UV editor, so we don't end with continuous look, but with more variations. this technique is quite common and very effective.

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march 09:14:16 | 19-03-2015

Congrats for the aniversary! Very instructive tutorial, as always Mr Francz. Could you explain a bit more about "every board is moved by hand in UV editor..." and, I would like to know what are your Composite maps usual settings? Thanks in advance.

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jpmartin 13:54:31 | 19-03-2015

Where is the VRay Sky portal pulling the light from? I don't see a VRay sun or anything.

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