Hi Everybody,

 

The image came straight from 3ds max and mental ray.

Photoshop was then employed for the sole purpose of fitting the 3d render onto the Photographs.

 

The image is part of a number of views produced with a purpose of aiding the architects with their planning application.

 

The view is verified, which means it was chosen by the local authorities. Furthermore we (GMJ Design Ltd) had employed surveyors to accurately pick the camera points; we then mathematically translated & matched them accurately into 3D.

 

When rendering with the Max9/Mental Ray for photomontages, it becomes a bit more of a challenge as it is quite fiddly to load photographs of environments which have buildings on, in the background when using the Daylight system for mental ray.

 

Since we were keen to have the mr Suns highlights reflected onto the materials, the following was done:

 

For the reflections, photographs of the environment were loaded onto the refraction section of all reflective objects.  

 

Next, the colour of the sky from mr daylight system was matched with the sky of the photograph.

 

Note that this process will enable us to have both the daylight systems sky colour/suns disk intensity and the photograph reflecting onto the scene.

 

      

 

 

The render took about an hour and thirty minutes.

 

Thanks

 

Jamie

 

 

This is a visual of the main entrance of the ICT Building.My software of choice was 3dsmax and Mental ray.
Any comments are welcome.
Thank you

Hi All,

This is a project I have finished recently whilst at GMJ design ltd.

The image is one of the 30 renders that came straight from 3Ds Max using mental ray. No post effects were required.

After the 30 views had been chosen and agreed upon by the planning authorities, developers, and architects, I had begun the process of organizing surveyors and photographers to go to the numerous sites.

The survey data and photography was gather and used in compliance with the planning authorities.
This meant that certain standard techniques with environment/background switcher shader etc couldn’t be used, as this shader is not yet fully integrated with the mental ray daylight system.
Daylight system is very crucial, as it is highly recognised and approved by the planning authorities.
Moreover, due to the fact that we (at the GMJ) only had 30 plus days to submit 30 images (i.e. 30 drastically different verified views), it wasn’t practical to take the chrome/and grey balls to all sites. Therefore I had to manually match seamlessly the sun light’s intensity, colour and the physical properties of all 3d objects in the scene.

The verified views methodology is covered in detail in the 2nd edition of my 1st book.

I would like to think that, the end result was a success.

I hope you share the same opinion.
Any comments would be welcomed

Kind Regards,

Jamie

http://jamiecardoso-mentalray.blogspot.com/

Hello There

This is a concept design of the client's lounge.
My software of choice was 3ds max/mental ray
Any comments would be welcome
Thanx

Jamie

This image is a result of an extensive research on ordinary camera flash behaviours in today