Interior Design and Exterior Presentation

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To create renderings for visualizing interior designs, you might want to add furniture and fixtures to the model. Often in architectural models, these are represented by 2D AutoCAD blocks. This tutorial shows two ways to add furniture to a scene:

Using the Asset Browser to drag and drop geometry into the scene.
Using the Substitute modifier to replace 2D blocks with 3D geometry.

The example in this tutorial is a model of a school library. Once you have populated the library with furniture, the tutorial goes on to show how you can use a radiosity solution as a preliminary to rendering, to obtain more accurate and realistic images.

Radiosity solution creates a realistic visualization.

As a bonus step, the tutorial also shows how to use the Camera Correction modifier, which changes 1-point perspective to 2-point perspective. This modifier can correct perspective when the camera viewing a building is tilted up or down.

You will also learn how to generate a radiosity solution, and how to add 3D trees to a scene.

Skill Level: Beginner

Time to Complete: 30 minutes

Features Covered in This Tutorial

After completing this tutorial, you should be able to:

Use the Asset Browser to bring a model into your design from local directories or the Web.
Use the Camera Correction modifier to correct camera perspective.
Use the Substitute modifier.
Generate a radiosity solution and render it.
Add foliage to an exterior scene.

Tutorial Files

All the files necessaryto do the tutorials can be found on the program disc in the \tutorials\interior_design folder, unless otherwise specified. Before doing the tutorials, copy the \tutorials directory from the disc to your local program installation.

Lessons In This Tutorial

Using the Asset Browser for Furniture

Using the Substitute Modifier

Solving and Rendering the Scene

Adding Foliage to an Outdoor Scene