Quickscape Tutorials
Project Overview This tutorial describes the process of creating a 3D infrastructure and landscape scene from an AutoCAD design drawing using MAX/VIZ and Quickscape application software. Popularity: 9.1 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 20,052 Stage 1: AutoCAD Drawing In stage 1 on this project, surfaces are created from an accurate landform mesh made from 2D and 3D polylines using Quickscape surfacing routines. Popularity: 25.02 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 55,118 Stage 2: Create Landform Mesh This tutorial takes AutoCAD groundmodel data and uses it to create a landform mesh in 3ds Max with Quickscape. Popularity: 6.08 visits per day | Last visit: Today | Total visits: 13,392 Stage 3: Create Surfaces Production of seamless surfaces for roads, pavements, grassed areas and planting beds is probably the most important stage in the creation of a 3D landscape scene. Popularity: 6.34 visits per day | Last visit: Yesterday | Total visits: 13,967
Introduction to Vray Part 1 – Lighting « macdesignstudio
As it’s getting close to finals in architecture schools across the USA, I felt it was a good idea to create a small tutorial to help all those students pulling their hair out because of rendering issues. In this tutorial, I hope to shed some light (literally) on some of the nuances to my favorite render engine. This tutorial is based on the course that I taught while I was a student at Washington University from 2008-2010. I have modeled this scene in Rhino and will be using VRay for Rhino, but rest assured that these are basics that translate across programs, so if you’re using VRay for Sketchup or 3ds Max, the fundamentals are the same, I simply used an existing model I created in Rhino. I will start with an interior model, with furniture and windows. The initial model from Rhino The next major step is to place lights in the scene. The next step is to add rectangular lights at the openings to supplement the sunlight system. Light Multiplier settings: Visible Light vs. One sided vs.
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3ds Max Tutorial | Preparing an AutoCAD drawing for 3D
by Ian Ibbotson Introduction It is extremely important to prepare an AutoCAD drawing taking into consideration two main issues The drawing should be organised and drawn so as not to compromise the production drawing. This means that it should be drawn in a manner that benefits both the AutoCAD outputs and the 3D outputs. This tutorial explains the main issues to consider when drawing in AutoCAD and preparing a drawing for use in 3D work Download Sample Data kf301_files.zip (583kb) Top of page Layers and Drawing Methods Organisation of all elements that are to be used in 3D using layers is vital as well as a good knowledge of clean, accurate drawing methods for 3D work. The correct drawing method (which is easier) produces a good looking and accurate result in 3D Clean and Simplify Drawing Before using an AutoCAD drawing for importing into MAX/VIZ only those elements that are going to be used for 3D work need keeping in the drawing. Layers Open kf301_01.dwg in AutoCAD. Drawing Methods Building
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Deyan Sudjic on the Ground Zero memorial | Art and design | The Observer
When Maya Lin won the competition to design America's national memorial to its Vietnam war dead 20 years ago, nobody could have foreseen that this painfully young architecture student from Yale was, for better or worse, going to usher us all into a whole new era of monument-making. Even now with New York struggling to decide how best to honour the memory of the victims of the World Trade Centre attacks, she is proving to be a decisive voice. The black granite walls, free of eagles or insignia, that she proposed to cut into the grass of Washington's Mall were a decisive break with the way things used to be done. They seemed to many at the time to be shockingly abstract. Indeed, long before that folksy populist Ross Perot ran for President, he led a bitter campaign against her plan, arguing for something, as he saw it, more impressive and more martial. Everywhere, abstraction and minimalism became the unavoidable language of the monument. This kind of thing is usually called public art.
mental ray & VRay tutorials: Correcting the Viewport colour display of imported AutoCAD drawings, when added into a Layer in 3Ds Max
Often, imported AutoCad drawings lose their original colour once added into a new layer (using “Manage Layers” toolbar) in 3Ds Max. This “glitch” usually frustrates numerous users for a number of reasons, as colour coded drawings help to quickly understand the design and to easily “select by colour” any given layer/s of the relevant drawing in the 3Ds Max scene. After countless requests to post an article/tutorial on how to correct this problem, I have finally managed to put something together with help of a prolific script writer/ senior Visualiser/Photographer called David Venables.David created a simple script to override the above mentioned problem! I have had the pleasure to meet and continue to work with David while at AVR London. Without further ado let us start by importing an AutoCAD file format (i.e. With the DWG file imported into Max, the next step is to quickly create a simple script and apply it. Fn ColourFromLayer = Local SelectionArr = (selection as array) Local myarr = #() Ta
The Ultimate Collection Of Free Photoshop Patterns - Smashing Magazine
Advertisement Photoshop users can save themselves a great deal of time and end up with better results by taking advantage of readily available freebies, such as brushes, patterns and shapes. With the wide variety and (often) high quality of resources available, whatever you need or are looking for is in most cases already available somewhere. The resources featured here are all available as downloads in PAT format, which can be placed in Photoshop. Skull Patterns Two skull patterns from Go Media using an image from one of its vector packs. Carbon Fiber A carbon fiber pattern. Patterns from PunkSafetyPin This set of 15 patterns from a deviantART user offers more than 30 other packs of patterns. Grunge Pattern Set Nine large and high-quality grunge patterns. Dots Pattern Set Eight dot patterns of various colors and styles. Hexagonal Patterns Seventy-two black-and-white horizontal and vertical patterns. Skulls and Hearts Three different gray, white and pink patterns. Brick Texture Patterns
studio a+i wins AIDS Memorial Park Design Competition
Organizers of New York City’s proposed AIDS Memorial Park today announced the winners of their design competition. First place was awarded to Brooklyn, NY’s studio a+i: Mateo Paiva, Lily Lim, John Thurtle, Insook Kim, and Esteban Erlich, with a rendering by Guillaume Paturel, for their design “Infinite Forest.” The design was selected from 475 entries submitted between November 29, 2011 and January 21, 2012, representing more than 26 U.S. states and 32 countries on six continents. “The proposed AIDS Memorial Park commemorates the past while embracing the present and the future,” said Jury Chair Michael Arad, Partner, Handel Architects and Designer of The National September 11 Memorial. Christopher Tepper and Paul Kelterborn, co-founders of the AIDS Memorial Park Coalition, envisioned the design competition as inspiration for an AIDS Memorial Park that seamlessly integrates park and memorial features. IMAGES Courtesy of AIDS Memorial Park / AIDS Memorial Park Coalition
