I would like to show you how to lighting your interiors using HDRI, Vray sun and Vray Physical Camera, also i show you some material setups, and modeling videos, so you will have a nice base or improve your skills to create nice interiors.
This Scene is NOW READY TO DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE
My concept for this scene was thinking in high ceilings and big windows, and i want to show a brute render of the room without the furniture so you can have an idea of the place.
note: this is a draft render with lower quality settings
1.- The modeling stage was easy for almost all the object in the scenes, i did two videos showing how to model some objects of the scene, you can see it here:
here is a wire frame image:
2.- Materials and Textures, i use diffuse, bump and specular map for each material, i like to use blend map or mix map for to composite various textures in a shader, sometimes if the materials is more complex i use composite material, but this not the case, i resolved with the mix map, here are some of the shaders setups used in the scene:
And the wood flooring map for some people that was asking for the settings
3.- The lighting, like i said at the beginning of the tutorial i used vray sun and a vray dome light to use the hdri like environment, and to have more control of the lighting i used the vray physical camera:
- Vray sun settings:
-This is the HDRI that i used to lighting the scene:
- Vray dome light with the hdri settings (you can download the hdri file from the OPENFOOTAGE page, here is the link to download)
- Vray physical camera settings:
- If you see the Sun coming in from the windows you can notice there is a tree shadow, i did this to have a more interesting lighting/shadow effect over the render, this make the render a little be more nice and not just a plain sun lighting over the scene.
- in this image you can see the position of the tree in relation to the sun:
- The two lamps in the scene, i used two photometric lights with the same settings, this is the setting of the photometric light:
4.-The render setup in this time was more lower because some people was asking why i use high render settings, so in this time you can have the same quality with lower render settings, here is the setup for the render:
5.- Post production: i rendered a ambient occlusion map, you can see this tutorial to learn how to create your ambient occlusion map, click here for to see the tutorial
- To add this map to your scene go to Adobe Photoshop, add the map over the layer of your final render and in the blending mode options select multiply and play with the opacity.
- I made some color correction with the Curve Editor in Adobe Photoshop, you can do this playing with the RGB Channel
- To bring some details more alive i played with the Smart Sharpen filter.
- The Glow effect was done duplicating the render layer and added a Gaussian Blur filter, i changed the blending mode to Color Dodge and changed the opacity to 30% (do not use this with higher values of opacity because this can burn your images)
-And to finish with post-pro i added a Lens Correction filter to play with the Chromatic Aberration.
Also you can check this other tutorial with vray sun, with this other tut you can improve more your renderings click here to see it
This Scene is NOW READY TO DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE
Thanks for watch this tutorial, i hope that you like it and please let me know what do you think about it.…. .
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July 12, 2011 at 2:53 am
OMG… I can’t wait to practice this!! I got a lot to learn… but Is going to be better with your tutorials!! Thanks
July 12, 2011 at 3:29 am
nice that you liked,
July 12, 2011 at 3:19 pm
great tutorial thanks for sharing
July 12, 2011 at 3:21 pm
thanks for your comment
July 12, 2011 at 3:20 pm
nice tutorial and outcome thank you
July 12, 2011 at 3:21 pm
your welcome
July 12, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Why would anybody use a HDR as environment if you allready have a sunlight in your scene. This totally doesn´t make sence. The only part of a Sky HDr that is true HDR is part where the sun is located. But that you allready have you covered by your Sun. Just take a gradient ramp instead and you have full control of colors. And If you need this with a higher dynamic range you just turn up the multiplier and every gradient turns into a HDR. sure it´s possible to do it this way, but it doesn´t really make sense at all !
July 12, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Benefits from working with hdri: 1) bright things can be really bright, 2) dark things can be really dark, and 3) details can be seen in both.
thanks for your input
July 12, 2011 at 7:26 pm
Reflections? Subtle differences in the colour of the light being cast into the room.
I challenge you to light something solely with a HDRi then get the same colour variation with a gradient ramp.
The need to use a sunlight with a HDRI is that you get much stronger shadows than that of just the lone HDR.
It makes every bit of sense to me. Depends if your going for photorealism in which case you will need the HDR to get the small subtleties that we see but dont recognize everyday, i.e. variations in reflection, glossy highlights, colour. Or if you just want the run of the mill render that gives unrealistic renders (because the sky doesn’t behave like a gradient ramp) then use a gradient ramp
July 13, 2011 at 8:31 am
That´s absolutely no problem. Let´s say you have a sunlight and a gradient. A basic gradient out of the box of course doesn´t give the desired effect. But if you turn up the RGB Multiplier to something like 10 depending on the intensity of the sun, the gradient turns into HDR and will give the same nice reflections as a HDR with the difference that you can precisely control the colors. A HDR is pretty much fixed, you´d have to color correct it in advance if you want to change it´s appereance. Give it a try, you´ll see it works pretty well. A guy posted a method a while ago on the vray forums. He used a direct light with a high multiplier of something like 20 and a environment with a high mulitplier, too. It´s no difference to the lighting of a Sunlight or HDR with the difference that you have control about any parameters like color, enviroment versus sun intensity and so on. Basically as soon as you have high mulitplied environments, sunlight or any lights, your scene automatically turns into HDR you don´t explicitly need a HDR image in the background.
July 12, 2011 at 7:28 pm
I should also add that HDR’s aren’t the be all and ell of CG these days though, still need to know how to balance lights/colours properly for times when HDR simply isn’t needed/warranted/accessible or practical
July 12, 2011 at 7:45 pm
about stronger shadows you can get that with the hdri but you have to use a lower value in the hdri gamma so you will have a more contrasted lighting, thanks Dave Buckley for your input
July 12, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Not great for LWF workflows though but yes your correct
July 12, 2011 at 4:13 pm
aleso thanks for this tutorial, some people wants to be heroes when commenting
July 12, 2011 at 4:15 pm
thanks for your comment, everyone can give me their opinion, my blog is open
July 12, 2011 at 4:14 pm
amazing outcome and superb tut tnks
July 12, 2011 at 4:15 pm
i am glad you liked
July 13, 2011 at 5:52 am
sorry for my English. I’m from Ukraine. I want to say that the use of a high polygon scene of the tree a little too much. To obtain a light-shadow pattern on the wall you could use an ordinary plane placed behind the window and to apply the texture with an alpha mask. This immediately reduces the number of polygons, and speed up the rendering time. This is my personal opinion.
July 13, 2011 at 4:45 pm
yeah you are right about that but this tree is not heavy, it is very optimized, but you are correct, but for me was more simple to add this tree
, thanks for your input
July 13, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Muchas gracias por el tutorial, realmente muy interesante, voy a ponerlo en práctica, dime la gama que utilizas es por la de defecto del max ¡?, y como es el tiempo del render aumenta en usar un hdri ¡? y la combinación de ella, saludos y mil gracias nuevamente maestro.
July 13, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Que bueno que te haya gustado el tutorial, utilizo gamma 2.2 in this link puedes ver la configuracion que utilizo para el gamma http://www.aleso3d.com/blog/?p=164, al usar hdri desde mi punto de vista no aumenta el render, iluminar con hdri es uno de los metodos mas simples y con mejor resultados que existe, saludos
July 13, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Congrats on this fantastic render. I am seeing a small detail which immediately tells me this is a render… you have light coming through underneath the window sill. Some photoshop work should fix that!
Thanks for the tutorial!
July 13, 2011 at 5:08 pm
yeah that light leak looks bad, thanks for your comment
July 13, 2011 at 7:48 pm
All your tutorials are really helpful but I think this is your best tutorial so far
Could you please share some information about the wood floor material? It looks very realistic and I would love to see how you set it up. A screen shot of the materials settings would be very helpful.
Thanks for all the help so far!
July 13, 2011 at 8:07 pm
yeah i agree with you, this is my more detailed tutorial, i decided to start making more detailed tutorials, about wood floor of course i can upload the material setup, come back later today and you will see it
July 14, 2011 at 10:41 pm
Really great tutorial:) you should make one from scratch so also the modelling of the building
and is that material shader from the 2012? im still on the old one so this is new for me:)
Keep them coming
July 14, 2011 at 10:45 pm
well i am planing to create tutorial from scratch, from concept and gathering references to the post-production, but will be video trainings, stay tuned you guys will love it.
I use 3ds max 2011
July 14, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Great:) or you should make your model for download <3 but keep it coming:D checking the site everyday for updates:D
July 14, 2011 at 10:57 pm
yeah i am including that too, i will publish that in two weeks
July 15, 2011 at 1:28 am
Great!!Wonder if i can do the practice with this scene! Nice tutorial!!
July 15, 2011 at 1:57 am
i am glad that you liked, i will upload soon a free downloadable scene!
July 15, 2011 at 10:32 am
“this is a draft render with lower quality settings” can you post this settiungs for image 02
thanks …..it is coming one of the best resource in internet
July 15, 2011 at 12:50 pm
hey max3dvi thanks for your kind words, for the render settings for the draft render a the top, just change fixed sample for adaptive dmc, min subdvs: 2 max subdvs: 4
use irradiance map with very low settings 50/20 for the subdvs, lighting cache 500, go to settings tab and change the global subdvs multiplier to 0.7 and that’s it.
July 15, 2011 at 11:05 am
Great tutorial aleso!
Your v-ray setup seams really optimized for a fast render. But what’s the reason for using Fixed image sampling instead of DMC or Adaptive?
July 15, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Thanks for your comment mike, fixed works better with blurry reflections (glossy reflections) than adaptive dmc, but using fixed will increase a little more the render time.
July 15, 2011 at 10:26 pm
Please post setting/screenshots for the wood floor material as per earlier request
July 15, 2011 at 10:46 pm
oh man sorry for the delay
, i have posted the screenshot of the configuration, anything else please let me know.
July 15, 2011 at 11:30 pm
the scene haha:) no this is perfect. you are already sharing alot of tips and info:)
Greetz
July 16, 2011 at 12:28 am
hehehe coming soon
July 23, 2011 at 8:34 am
can you maybe post your settings for the white wall? because when i try to do its comes out different:)
Greetz
July 23, 2011 at 9:47 am
there is no setting for the white wall, i use a light grey concrete texture for the diffuse and the bump, no more
July 23, 2011 at 10:29 am
hmmm:) didnt see that one coming^^ gonna try that then:) thanks!
July 26, 2011 at 8:18 pm
It is the small adjustments that make the most dramatic shift.
July 28, 2011 at 7:48 pm
please post 3dscenes model…Thanks 4 port..
August 1, 2011 at 6:29 pm
i’m fighting modelling scenes & render
but it’s not effect as you
Can you post print screen tutorial in photoshop.
Thanks…
August 8, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Great and inspiring tutorial!
I would love to see the image before the post-production, just so one can tell what has been achieved.
August 15, 2011 at 7:42 pm
aleso3d
This is a fantastic tutorial, but I had some problems with the ambient occlusion map. I rendered a vray camera view and it doesn’t line up with the mental ray occlusion map, even though it’s the same camera view… what is the problem?
August 15, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Or I should say it does line up (if you position it correctly), but it’s a clipped view…
August 26, 2011 at 3:44 pm
anyway you can use a vray dirt shader and aplyy it on override material, it has the same effect. Remember to set up the color mapping to linear 1.0-1.0-1.0
August 15, 2011 at 8:32 pm
well this is weird, you need to check well because maybe you are missing something, try to merge the scene into a new file in 3ds max and render the ambient occlusion without changing nothing. regards
August 16, 2011 at 8:17 am
Muchas gracias por el post!! es un tutorial muy interesante. A la hora de crear los shaders qué utilizas?? Shader FX o algo similar??
August 16, 2011 at 4:39 pm
gracias por tu comentario, utilizo los slate material editor de 3ds max que viene desde la version 2011.
August 16, 2011 at 9:31 am
¿Podrias indicar qué versión de VRay utilizas? con la v.2.0 me salen las imágenes con muchisimo ruido usando tu setup (lo mismo me ocurre con los setups de Peter Guthrie para hdri’s)
August 16, 2011 at 4:36 pm
yo utilizo vray 2.0, tienes que verificar las subdivisiones de tus luces, y de tus materiales, a lo mejor por eso es que te sale con mucho ruido, saludos.
August 16, 2011 at 11:49 am
Thank u very much sir for ur valuable tutorial..realy thank u..hope u will continue ur posting…
http://www.brahma3d.blogspot.com this my blog plz coment on my work ,if u gt time..
thankfully
nitheesh.
August 16, 2011 at 4:35 pm
thanks for your comment, i will check your site, thanks for the link
August 17, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Gracias por responder, seguiré comprobando pero creo que se trata de algún bug de mi version de VRay. Congrats de nuevo por el material de la web, muy interesante, así como los dialogos que se establecen en los comentarios.
August 17, 2011 at 7:12 pm
siempre a tus ordenes, espero que sigas comentando en el blog, saludos!
August 19, 2011 at 8:25 am
Otra cuestion (sorry!!), renderizas en VRay VFB, no? al salvar la imagen estableces el gamma 1.0 (ya que previamente lo hemos aplicado tanto en el setup como en el rollout de vray) o salvas como 2.2 y ajustas en el post-procesado??
August 19, 2011 at 12:42 pm
no uso vfb, lo salvo en 2.2 como dices, saludos y no hay problema puedes comentar/preguntar las veces que quieras, saludos
September 5, 2011 at 5:46 pm
You are my legend man.I learn a lot of things from you.
September 5, 2011 at 6:00 pm
thanks for your kind words
September 10, 2011 at 5:25 am
hi
I’m new on this so I’ll make it quick . I just wanna ask you about the materials pictures you have divided the the sub materials on the left how .is it a blug-in or what?. thanks .
September 10, 2011 at 5:28 am
hey basem2b2 this is the slate material editor in 3ds max 2011+, you can use the standard material editor or this one, anything else please let me know, cheers
November 12, 2011 at 2:13 am
This was so useful for me, many thanks.
September 11, 2011 at 11:57 pm
Thank you for taking time to write down this post. It is been very useful. It could not have come at a far better time for me!
October 18, 2011 at 6:33 pm
Esos libros son de arch models????? por que siempre que veo renders…. los veo igualitos a todos esos libros hehehe sera?? gracias aleso por los tips de cada post !
saludos desde lo mas recondito del universo Tinbojtu (fuera mosquitos!!) perdon es que hay demasiados aqui.
October 18, 2011 at 7:01 pm
la verdad no sabria decirte, normalmente el 95% de los modelos en mis escenas son hechos por mi, algunas veces uso algunos de la libreria de mi trabajo no se si ellos lo compraron de archmodels
October 28, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Sweeet, keep working
November 11, 2011 at 9:45 am
Aleso, para un studio render es útil usar imágenes hdri? y si es así, que tipo de imagen? de tipo interior o exterior?
November 19, 2011 at 8:10 am
I appreciate, cause I found exactly what I was looking for. You’ve ended my 4 day long hunt! God Bless you man. Have a great day. Bye
December 11, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Awesome tut ! Thanks so much !
December 12, 2011 at 7:41 am
thanks
December 29, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Great tutorial! It is so straightforward that I can follow it even though I don’t use 3Ds Max but actually Maya!
However the problem is that in Maya Vray Physical Camera and HDRI won’t work together!?
HDRI just won’t show up, its just empty black space, and as soon as I turn off “Treat as a Vray Physical Camera” option on the camera the HDRI shows up!
Weird!
Any help would be much appreciated!!
December 29, 2011 at 10:25 pm
nice you like it
but i would like to tell you something about it, but i have never use vray in maya 
December 30, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Oh it’s ok!
Thank you anyway for being kind and willing to help!
I will figure it out somehow I hope
Keep up the great job!
December 30, 2011 at 1:02 pm
your welcome and thanks to you for taking time to comment
February 6, 2012 at 2:34 am
this put up is insane easy
March 5, 2012 at 8:17 pm
Amazing tutorial!
I did not realised that hdri can be used in interiors
March 6, 2012 at 12:16 am
yes hdri lighting working very nice for interiors
March 5, 2012 at 9:22 pm
Thank you very much for the great tutorial,
i did this, but after the render completes the image gets darken, but the render preview in 3D max is very clean,
March 6, 2012 at 12:16 am
decrease the shutter speed or f-number if you want to have a more brighter render
March 21, 2012 at 1:29 pm
Keep it up with the good working
April 25, 2012 at 7:21 am
that was nice tutorial,but i could not find the hdri setting,of course in my scene i can not have the same result as yours.:(
May 5, 2012 at 4:37 pm
awesome interior rendering… GJ…
thanks for sharing ur tutor..
and i have little question about using Vray ligth dome with HDRI…
can you explain more about using vray light dome with HDRI…
thanks for sharing ur knowled…
May 6, 2012 at 12:50 am
thanks loveren i will try to explain more about the vray dome light in the next tut
August 23, 2012 at 5:25 am
thank u so much
August 24, 2012 at 8:13 am
your welcome Anh Le
September 6, 2012 at 3:58 am
vray sun + sky test 3: http://play.kendincos.com/188982/Wpthldhvzrvhlptlp-vray-sun-sky-test-3.html
September 6, 2012 at 7:54 am
hey looking good man, I love the clouds!