3ds Max and V-Ray: Residential Exterior Materials

Course Overview

Create custom materials for your architectural renderings and visualizations with 3ds Max, Substance Designer, V-Ray, and Bitmap2Material.

Course Circullum

Introduction

Create realistic materials for 3D models
Get the most out of the exercise files
Set up the software

1. Import Assets

Clean up the SketchUp model
Import from SketchUp
Layer the scene
Fix geometry issues

2. UV Mapping

Organize geometry for UV mapping
Use Unwrap UVW
Adjust UV layouts
Finalize UVs
Use MapScaler

3. Create Materials in V-Ray

Setting up V-Ray
Create physical materials for V-Ray
Understanding V-Ray materials
Displacement mapping in V-Ray

4. Substance Materials in 3ds Max

Install the Substance plugins
Use the 3ds Max Asset Library
Import Substance materials to 3ds Max
Modify Substance materials in 3ds Max

5. Create Substance Materials

Create a basic stucco material
Control relief and gloss
Expose Substance parameters
Add the material to 3ds Max
Adjust the stucco material

6. Use Bitmap2Material To Create Materials

The Bitmap2Material application
Using Bitmap2Material inside 3dS Max
Export Bitmap2Material maps to bitmaps
Rescale maps with MapScaler
Build V-Ray materials with Bitmap2Material maps

Conclusion

Next steps

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