Are there any building interior space tutorials?

syburn

Eventually I might find one but I just thought i could ask you all if there is something that will help me build interiors.

At my current level I'm not so sure of things like best procedures in building interiors, ceilings, how to arrange cameras and lighting effect, glass effects mirrors - would be great to see how the experts do it and set me in the correct direction.

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syburn

Oh thankd for the list.

Actually I really like the built in sketchy render, thats one of the things that initialy attracted me to SU. The hand drawn of sketchy look.

But I was hoping for something that would still help to make glass and mirrors look good and lights (or mock lights) shine on the wall as they often do in interiors.

To be honest at this time I think I will let our 3d department focus on the wizban renders with max etc.

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Krisidious

I'll see if I can make you a tutorial this weekend on adding some detail to interiors...

syburn

yeah that would be brilliant!

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Krisidious

alright, so what would you like to know?

about placing furniture?

trimming or doing wood work?

setting doors and openings?

ceilings?

syburn

Well I am a newbee, so I'm still learning the ropes day by day. Maybe I will post a seperate post on those general stuff.

What I was very curious about was :

How do you work on the interior of the model if its encased inside wall/floors and ceilings.
Is it possible to render mirrors and glass in the SU built in render styles ( cos i love that sketchy look).
If there are no spot lights and strip lights in SU then how does one make the interior illumination look convincing in the sketchy render styles.

Thanks for all the help from all members of this forum so far BTW.

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Gaieus

Syburn,

Let's go inyour order of questions then:

You can always hide or delete (temporarily) those faces (ceilings, walls etcÍ). But also there is the section cut possibility that enables you to "hide" these things inn SU and work inside the model (to read more about this, click here)

2-3 No. SU only knows of light (sun) on or off. no reflections, no additional lights - nothing.
In a "sketchy style" you would not even need it, I guess...
But there are external rendering programs that can do it for you - have a look at this link!

And first of all: have fun!

Krisidious

ok... mirrors...

this is what I do...

1 find the the view reflection in su and take a rendering picture of it.

2then save that as a jpg and make it the material of the glass in the mirror, remember it has to be the angle of the view reversed in the mirror.

pmiller

Even though SU has no provisions for lighting it's possible to achieve some lighting effects that are quite suitable and in keeping with the sketchy style rendering:

For interiors it is better to adjust your light dark settings (in the shadow dialogue) -- increase the dark setting, slide it to the right to increase the ambient light. Try a setting of 50 for light, 80 or 90 for dark. You can set the sun position high and get fairly even lighting (if you turn shadows off make sure use sun for shading is checked).
Make your ceilings a separate group then turn off cast shadows in entity info. Or another way - paint the topside of the ceiling material with a transparent color -- desaturate the color and turn transparency all the way down to zero. This way (in conjunction with the light/dark settings) your ceilings won't go dark and you will not get shadows from the ceiling.
Use Photoshop to simulate pools of light or downlights by making an adjustment layer, then turning down the brightness. Next paint the adjusment layer mask with a black brush to restore the light values in areas where light would fall.

Gaieus

i think u could use this... i got it from the old SU forum (sigh!!)
basic PNG texture... pretty neat.. u can also change the colour!

Fake Rays.skp

syburn

Thanks for all those tips!
I will probably leave looking at rendering software till later. Just try to use photoshop at first.

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