Architectural Rendering with 3ds Max and V-Ray: Photorealistic Visualization |
 | Authors: Markus Kuhlo, Enrico Eggert
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 258,692
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Cdr
Pages: 224
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0240814770
Dewey Decimal Number: 720
EAN: 9780240814773
ASIN: 0240814770
Publication Date: August 3, 2010
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Product Description
Create high-quality photorealistic renders of architectural visualizations using 3ds Max and Vray with the project-based tutorials in this book. Learn how to combine lighting and rendering options to end-up with the most realistic final renders possible at a professional level. The tutorials in this book are filled with beautiful full-color images and they teach you how to light both interiors and exteriors and daytime and nighttime scenes. Learn how to save time without sacrificing the quality of your final renders with tips and tricks on rendering with Vray - the most accurate rendering application for 3ds Max. The companion CD includes all the project files that you need to recreate each of the projects presented within the book.
Topics include:
* AutoCAD to 3ds Max workflow
* Vray light sources and materials
* IES light sources
*Indirect Illumination
*Artificial and natural light sources
*The Vray overhead system
* HDRI lighting
* Studio Setup for Product Visualization
* Creating a loft in daylight
* Interior visualization of a bathroom scene
*The Vray Camera
*Interior and exterior shots
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Customer Reviews:
 good for beginners August 15, 2010
cao
I bought this book and learned a lot about the most common settings in VRay. The book is very easy to use and gives you a good overview about Vray. If you want to go more into detail than you should buy the Vray complete guide which explaines everything in detail. But to learn VRay this book is very usefull and for me as an student it helped me to create good renderings.
 Quite poor August 3, 2010
Macker
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Working in the field of architectural visualisation myself, and an avid user of VRay I was looking to extend my knowledge with this book.
The book is more of a walkthrough/step by step guide of the accompanied CD than anything else, it will show you how to create the images that are in the book but only a very few times does it explain *WHY* you are doing the things that it's telling you to do.
It constantly uses outdated methods/materials when there is no need to; such as the shellac material, thus ruining VRays own energy conserving material and potentially producing unrealistic results - something that this very book is aiming to teach you.
I strongly suggest taking a look at "Mastering Mental Ray" by Jennifer O'Connor instead. Yes, I am aware that it is specifically tailored towards Mental Ray and not VRay, but a suprising amount of the information can be ported over to VRay and will certainly give you a far better understanding of the ins & outs of photorealistic rendering than this book.
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