Modelling & Rendering an Interior Scene using 3Ds Max and Vray – Day 1

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Modelling & Rendering an Interior Scene using 3Ds Max and Vray – Day 1 Flavius Cristea on Jul 27th 2010 with 24 comments

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Software: Autodesk 3Ds Max

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Difficulty: Beginner/Intermediate

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Completion time:3-4 hours

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Scene Files: SceneFiles.zip

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What You'll Be Creating

Our recent Stunning Interiors roundup got a lot of people talking about interior rendering rendering tutorials, and today we’re happy to bring in Flavius Cristea to discuss his process when creating stunning interior renders using 3Ds Max. From the modelling, through material creation creation to the final rendering process, this 2-day tutorial is a great insight into the art of Arch-Vis Interiors.

Step 1 Since we’re aiming to make a realistic interior scene, the scale of the objects is very important. To keep things accurate, go to Customize > Units Setup and select the Metric system, and then choose Centimetersfrom the drop-down. dropdown. Throughout this tutorial I’ll be giving you the values that I used in the scene, however don;t feel you have to match these exactly!















Step 2 – The walls Go into the Top View and create a rectangle ( Length:540 cm , Width:450 cm) . Right click on the rectangle and go to Convert to > Convert to Editable Spline. While you still have the rectangle ( which is now editable as a spline ) selected, go to your Modifier tab

, go into sub-object mode ( click the small plus sign) and

select all 4 splines. Scroll down until you see the Outline button ( it’s in the geometry tab from the Editable Spline option). Type -20 and hit enter to add width to the walls. Tip: this is a very common technique when creating the 2d layout of the walls. Whilst this is a very s imple example, if you have a more complex floor plan simply use the line to trace them and then set an Outline equal to the walls’ width. The value of -20 and not +20 was used in order to ensure that the outline will be made outwards and not inwards from the initial shape.















Step 3 Right click on the rectangle, and go to Convert to > Convert to Editable Poly. Now go to polygon sub-object mode by hitting 4 on your keyboard, select all of the polygons and extrude them with a value of 250 cm.















Create a box ( L:370 cm , W: 50 cm, H:225 cm ) and move it so that it intersects one of the walls, as seen in the pic below. Now select the walls, and go to Compound objects > Pro Boolean. In the settings rollout, Pick Operand B and click the box object we just created. click Pick















Step 5 – The Floor & Ceiling Make another box as large as the room (I made mine a bit larger so that I’m sure it intersects the walls – – L: L: 541 cm W:451 cm H:12 cm). This is your floor object. Now make a copy of the box and move it up. You know have a ceiling too!

















Step 6 – The Window Now make another box as large as the one we used in the boolean operation to create the window, but make sure this one has a width of around 5 cm – cm – slightly slightly thinner than the wall itself. Now convert it to an Editable Poly as before.. Select the two large polygons (be careful to select the backside one as well), right click

and Inset them with a value of 4 cm. Now delete the two selected polys. Go into border sub-object mode by pressing 3 on your keyboard, select the two open borders, and click the bridge button to connect them with a loop of polys. Make two chamfered boxes and place them as seen in the















Step 7 – Wall Detail Select the all of the wall polys. Now go into vertex mode and click on the Splice Plane button. Adjust the slice plane and make the cuts as seen in the picture below. To exit the slice plane mode, click on the Slice















Step 8 -The Bed The bed is a fairly simple object, with the exception of the blanket – – it’s it’s really only a set of chamfered boxes. L:3.5 cm; W:270 cm; H:55 cm. I then set the Fillet to 0.15 cm and the Fillet Segs:3 to Box1 has these values – values – L:3.5

give us some rounded edges. L:220 cm; W:170 cm; H:9 cm; Fillet:0.15 cm and Fillet Segs:3. Finally, Box3 had Box2 had these values – values – L:220

these values : L:5cm; W:5cm; H:13cm, Fillet:0.15cm and Fillet Segs:3. Place the boxes as seen in the picture















Step 9 Now make a chamfered box ( L:205 cm, W:145 cm, H:8.5 cm Fillet:2.4 cm). This is going to be the mattress. You won’t add any further details to it as it will be completely covered covered by the blanket.















Step 10 – The Blanket Prep Use the line tool to create some random lines as shown. Attach them all together using the Attach Mult. button, and then click on Enable in Renderer and Enable in Viewport. Set the Thickness to 3cm and then move the lines up so that they sit just on top of the mattress. Info: In the next few steps you are going to use us e the Cloth Modifier to quickly and easily create a nice looking blanket. The lines we just created (which are now actually 3d objects) will be used as geometry onto which the cloth will fold.

















Step 12 Select the blanket object we just created and add a new Cloth modifier on top. Click on Object Properties in





























Step 14 – The Bedside





























Step 16 Now change the Turbosmooth Iterations to 3 (or even 4 if you want some fine details). Then add a Wavemodifer on top, and set the Amplitude 1 to 0.125 cm, Amplitude 2 to 0 cm, and the Wave Length to 8





















































































































































































































































Modelling & Rendering an Interior Scene using 3Ds Max and Vray – Day 1

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