Archive for May, 2009
Chaos Software announced the official release of V-Ray RT for 3dsMax. “The first interactive renderer of this kind for 3dsMax will be available for immediate purchase on June 1st, 2009. Created with the busy and rigorous 3D artist in mind, this topnotch raytracing technology allows immediate interaction between the user and the virtual environment. V-Ray [...]
“Vauban is a suburb of Freiburg in Germany near the French border. It is car free. People give up their cars to move there. It is a very useful antidote to the sort of thinking that insists that the only way to absorb another million people is to widen the freeway and add more low [...]
The City has developed and approved two passive design toolkits detailing ways to reduce energy use in new buildings, which are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions in Vancouver. The tookits provide best practices for homes and larger buildings for passive design elements such as layout, orientation, insulation, landscaping and ventilation. They are targeted [...]
RhinoTerrain introduces RhinoTerrain 1.5 Faster, better productivity, and more features which include: · Ultra fast terrain creation with Constrained Delaunay triangulation (>2 million triangles per second ) · Ultra fast contour curve generation that works on large terrain meshes · Gridded terrain with user STEP definition ideal for NURBS surface terrain generation · Ultra fast [...]
Here are some interesting V-Ray Tutorials: Rendering an exterior at night in 5 simple steps, using vray Night Interior Rendering Tutorial (using vray and 3d max) Check out the other categories on www.cgdigest.com for more …
Urban Spaces is a beta service from Holistic City Software that allows urban designers, architects, developers and planners to search for examples of public spaces of a specific size or shape. For now there seems to be only a limited number of countries and spaces in the database, it could develop to a valuable tool. [...]
You were looking forward to the new sleek user interface of the new Revit 2010 as well? Then you were disappointed because you could not memorize under which tab the function is you were looking for right now. You were just missing the visual cues on your screen with all the basic functions always visible? [...]
Click the link below for a step by step tutorial on “How to import an analysis model from Revit Architecture 2010 into Ecotect via gbXML”. Green Templates Part II: Revit Architecture to Ecotect [Via revitology]
