Stockholm Library Interior. The UV's are simple, just an 'unwrap' for the concrete.
In fact, the concrete is the scene's main material. I made a custom diffuse map, started from pictures in Photoshop, and after, from the diffuse, the reflection map, and the normal bump with some handmade joint (a grayscale image converted in normal bump with the NVIDIA Plug). I used the mrarchi&design material, for easy control of the glossy reflections. I like this material because it's really complete. Moka-studio. TUTORIALS - alex hogrefe architecture blog. A lot of people have been asking me how I create my renderings.
Since I am finished with grad school, I decided to develop some tutorials that explain techniques I used throughout architecture school. Many of the techniques only require Sketchup and Photoshop. Others later on will be a little more advanced and involve rendering programs that can be downloaded for free. . MIR.