Week 11 - Finalizing Renders Arch 100a 2012 Fall
Course	Arch 100a
Date	2012/11/09
Learning Objectives	Further discussion of VRay settings and controls, with special emphasis on interior renderings and finalizing renders in Photoshop. Quick intro to texture mapping – transparency, glossiness, etc. Discussion about being strategic when working between rendering + Photoshop, understanding how to layering different renderings and photographs together for final composition. Overview of render channels and how to use them, along with Photoshop selection tools.
Agenda	Recap from Last week Post-Processing Presentation Interior Render Birds Eye Render Street View Render
Uses Tool(s)	Rhinoceros , VRay

Recap from Last Week

• Remember to clearly represent the ground cut condition. Leaving it blank or placing your cut model on a plane that does not have a cut where the section cut occurs can be confusing.
• Add a sky and entourage to finalize.
• Some good examples:

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  Good lighting + color. Ambiguous ground condition

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  Nice shadows to highlight the bookshelves / louvers

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  Situated nicely in the site with additional linework and context.

NEXT WEEK

This is our last presentation of workflows with associated exercises for the semester. After this, the focus will be on helping you all prepare for the final review and troubleshooting problems you may be having. We will have a SHORT lecture reviewing common problems, and then break out to studio where you can work on your studio project while the GSIs walk around to answer questions.

FOR NEXT WEEK: Submit a question to "100aDigital@gmail.com" regarding issues you may be having with rendering, Illustrator, building in rhino, etc. Please send in your questions before Thursday Nov. 15th AM!

General Rendering Composition

• What makes a successful render (With good/bad examples).
• Different styles of renders.
• Overview of different work paths (Mention other programs/ tools).

Further Vray Discussion

Material Editing

Emissive materials

Lighting

• In general - using the GI lighting can be adequate lighting for your model with some modification (removing unseen walls, etc.)
• For exterior (st. view) renders, re-visit the lighting settings from week 7. Remember that a good final render requires a good base - that means the lighting has to be adequate in your render. Use a variety of lighting to achieve your desired results.

Week 7 Vray settings

• For interior renders consider adding various artificial lights. Select "render" from the rhino tool bar and select from various light options. Many of these will require moving and rotating the lights you create. Generally the closer the light to the model the stronger the light.

• Use these resources for comprehensive light options:

V-ray lights overview

V-ray lights settings

Post-Processing

Resources

Related Workflows

Workflow - Best practices in Vray rendering

Workflow - Combining Photos in Photoshop with Photomerge

Workflow - Creating a Composite Image with the Selection Tool in Photoshop

Workflow - Creating Composite Materials Using Image-Maps in Vray

Workflow - Layer Management and Image Merge in Photoshop

Workflow - Lighting Adjustments & Select Pixel Editing in Photoshop

Related tools

Tool - V-Ray - Sun and Sky

Tool - V-Ray - Global Illumination

Tool - V-Ray - Lights

Tool - V-Ray - Interior Lights

Tool - Photoshop - Adjustments

Tool - Photoshop - Selection and Masks

Tool - Photoshop - Blending Modes

Tool - Photoshop - Refine Edge

Tool - Rhino - Texture Mapping

Online Resources

VRay for Rhino Manual

This guide is INCREDIBLY helpful and detailed for students wishing to learn more about VRay. Numerous image swatches help explain how different settings can affect your final image.

Immediate Entourage

Large, free collection of cropped images including people, trees, cars, and other random objects you may want to place into composed renders.

Vyonx - Free resources

Collection of free cutout trees, people, and textures.

Flying Architecture

Free rhino blocks for furniture with pre-set render materials. Warning - these can make your file very large, very quickly!

Gallery of Vray Renderings

Collection of renderings created with Vray

Interior Render

Workflow - Creating an interior view render

Using your studio project, create an intior render and then compile photographs into windows or other openings. Insert entourage and other necessary objects with post-processing.

Simple interior scene aided by context and lighting. Render by Studio Ö.

Birds Eye Render

Birds eye renders typically focus on the entirety of the design in relationship to the site. Rather than relying on aerial photographs (not always available), these renders typically use a digital model of the site that is render with the building design. Often the surrounding buildings will be simplified or whitewashed to draw attention to the proposed design.

Street View Render

Workflow - Creating a Street View Render

Using existing photographs, create a matching render to place into the photographs themselves. This workflow shows how to use the Wallpaper in Rhino to match perspectives and various tools in Photoshop to work with existing images for various effects.

Exercise

Exercise: Interior and St. View Render