Markvl Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Wondering if anybody has experience with doing 3D Floor plans for presentation purposes. If so what kind of setup do you use? Lighting and rendering especially. Quote Link to comment
Bas Vellekoop Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 (edited) This is what I ones made. Did some PS work to it, but I cant upload a psd-file to this site so hereby a link to onedrive: http://1drv.ms/1JhrGVk Edited August 25, 2015 by Bas Vellekoop Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Bas- thanks for sharing your work & render settings. That's a very effective presentation style. Quote Link to comment
Markvl Posted August 25, 2015 Author Share Posted August 25, 2015 Thanks for sharing Bas. I'll have to try this out. Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Nice look, what did you add in PS? I used to do most in PS but with things changing all the time I started to push VW as far as i could. Looking at it all could be done in VW. Quote Link to comment
Bas Vellekoop Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 (edited) Mostly extra contrast, some fake ambient occlusion, the line drawing on top of the rendering, and some effect to give it a little bit of a sketchy feel. The line drawing: You can do this in VW, but if you want to use the Artistic style of VW the lines can become a sort of pixelated if you lay them on top of a rendered viewport. Everything done in VW is always better. Maybe we can ask Jim to combine VW en PS ;-) Edited August 26, 2015 by Bas Vellekoop Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Here are a couple, the commercial one has the camera directly overhead and uses perspective, the residential one is just an iso view with the roof turned off and I agree, it gives more of an idea of the spaces (needs to be finished as there still a lot of rooms showing just sub-floor). The third elevation one I just like... Quote Link to comment
Markvl Posted August 26, 2015 Author Share Posted August 26, 2015 Hey Altivec, Thanks for sharing. I like to soft, light shadows your projects are showing. I'm finding mine are too dark and I'm not sure how to effectively change that. Would love to know your light settings. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 This is all great stuff, you can spend a lot of time trying to figure out these rendering setups. Wes, the "Hillside EL White" Has a nice quality about it, can show Client the form without necessarily getting into materials. Is there 2 Viewports to get the exterior lights to render in colour, or how was that achieved. Regards Quote Link to comment
Markvl Posted August 27, 2015 Author Share Posted August 27, 2015 Thanks for those tips Altivec. I know what you mean about functions set as a percentage. I found the walls in the pic attached were far to grey even though they are plain white. I knew that other functions allowed for numbers greater than 100% so I typed in 150 and voila. So ya a little deceiving. Your interior shots look great. So I've attached a pic of my current efforts. In this case I actually used the Renderworks Style-Realistic Exterior Fast with a couple on tweaks with a slight edge to the objects and a couple of point lights for a bit of shadow for depth. Let me know what you think. Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 (edited) @ Alan - the Hillside rendering was done with a Custom Renderworks setting - turn Colors OFF but leave Textures ON...you can set the quality to be whatever depending on how much time/quality you have. If you use "All Low" it renders in about 30 seconds. In Lighting Options, choose an HDRI background like "HDRI White" (this ships with the program) but create and use a black background, just choose "Create New Background" and choose a single color set it to black. I believe that's all I did, haven't done it for a while so if it doesn't work. let me know and I'll go back to my file. Edited August 27, 2015 by Wes Gardner Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Great, Thanks for the response. Quote Link to comment
bohlr Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 Good afternoon Wes, I am having trouble replicating the Hillside EL White First problem seems to be creating HDRI Black background. I attempted to edit HDRI White to black, but when asked to select a different image no image are selectable (grayed out - JPEG file type) What is VW looking for in an image? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted August 31, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted August 31, 2015 You should be able to pick "Solid Color" instead of Image and then just select black from the color pick list. Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 (edited) @ Rick - you don't need to modify the HDRI background...USE the HDRI White background as is... CREATE a soild color background (non-HDRI) Then under VIEW, choose to use the background you created BUT in the Lighting options, choose the set-up in my post above such that you get the environmental lighting from the HDRI.. So you USE a single color black background just so you get a matt black background but you use the lighting effects from the HDRI... Edited August 31, 2015 by Wes Gardner Quote Link to comment
Markvl Posted September 1, 2015 Author Share Posted September 1, 2015 Hi Altivec, Sorry I don't have a means to share the file at this time. I've got pics of my setting though. Quote Link to comment
VincentCuclair Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 The third elevation one I just like... Ooh I like the trees in this one Wes, where did you get those, are they part of the Default, VSS libraries or 3rd party? Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 @ Vincent - those are by VB Visual...we do ship with a few. Be careful as they are a bit "heavy", also a bit spendy :-) Quote Link to comment
D Wood Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Wes Thanks for posting your terrific images! Since everyone else seems to be picking off your ideas one by one - can I ask you where you sourced the up & down lights? Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 (edited) @ David...can't recall exactly, but here's one in 2015... @ Vincent - As an update to the VB Visual plants...there are 41 additional plants in the VSS libary - I believe they are plug-ins such that you can change time-of-year (fall foliage as opposed to spring, etc.) as well as height...pretty cool, check 'em out! Wes Edited September 2, 2015 by Wes Gardner Quote Link to comment
VincentCuclair Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Thanks Wes much obliged! Quote Link to comment
D Wood Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Wes Thank you for the file - it worked perfectly (once I remembered to turn on the class in the viewport ............) The Occhio range of light fittings are pretty cool. One other thing tho' - I seem to have acquired a class called Geen, does anyone have any idea what it is or what it does? Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 (edited) Hi All, Explained below, and yes, you can delete it assuming a non-Dutch version. Wes Edited September 3, 2015 by Wes Gardner Quote Link to comment
Art V Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 The "Geen" class is Dutch for the "None" class. When opening it in a non-Dutch version of VW you should be able to delete it, and vice versa for the "None" class. Quote Link to comment
D Wood Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Done, thanks team. Quote Link to comment
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