Pierre-Felix Breton » Autodesk http://www.pfbreton.com Lighting & Daylight Simulation, Energy Modeling, Rendering Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 mental ray in 3ds Max at a glance http://www.pfbreton.com/2009/11/mental-ray-in-3ds-max-at-a-glance/ http://www.pfbreton.com/2009/11/mental-ray-in-3ds-max-at-a-glance/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:53:42 +0000 Pierre-Felix Breton http://www.pfbreton.com/?p=457 I recently wrote a document for Autodesk about the typical steps around the usage of mental ray in 3ds Max for architectural visualization workflows. I thought I would share it here since it may benefit many 3ds Max users, especially beginners.

My goal was to create a document where the main features of 3ds Max are grouped togheter to create daytime / night time renderings of buildings without overloading it with cumbersome step-by-step “click here/ click there” instructions.  It gives some tips and tricks around NPR (Non-PhotoRealistic) rendering as well.

Here it is:

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mentalray.for.aec.renderings

]]> http://www.pfbreton.com/2009/11/mental-ray-in-3ds-max-at-a-glance/feed/ 0 Validation of 3ds Max Design’s Daylighting tools http://www.pfbreton.com/2009/07/validation-of-3ds-max-designs-daylighting-tools/ http://www.pfbreton.com/2009/07/validation-of-3ds-max-designs-daylighting-tools/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:51:27 +0000 Pierre-Felix Breton http://www.pfbreton.com/?p=252 I am proud to say that the daylight simulation tools in 3ds Max Design 2009 (and beyond) has been validated by the National Research Council of Canada.

I have participated in the process and contributed to the authoring of the following paper: 3ds Max Design Exposure Validation (pdf – 5835Kb) – which describes the process and results.

Daylight Simulation

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