Archive for the 'Visualisation' Category

Tyson Ibele’s amazing free script will model and create complete cities, and even creates V-Ray Proxies and materials automatically.
Main Features:

Wide variety of structural controls.
Automated detail creation for things like windows, ledges, railings, balconies, etc.
Ability to generate a series of randomized buildings along a spline path.
Combined meshes can be turned into Vray Proxies during the generation [...]

As of On October 26th the newest build, V-Ray® 1.50 Service Pack 4, is available from the download section of the Chaos Group site.

The upgrade is free of charge for all current V-Ray customers of Chaos Group.
The V-Ray® 1.50 Service Pack 4 is compatible with Autodesk® 3ds Max® 8, Autodesk® 3ds Max® 9, Autodesk® 3ds [...]

The Connection Extension for Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2010 design visualization software offers a range of new and enhanced connectivity features exclusively to Autodesk Subscription program customers.
Enhanced Interoperability with CAD Packages
Bring solid models from many of your favorite CAD packages into 3ds Max Design 2010 for visual enhancement and export them back when you’re done. [...]

SketchBook Mobile — a new iPhone App available for download on the iTunes App Store as of today — is a professional-grade paint and drawing application designed for artists, designers, and anyone…

These are some feature highlights:

Full Screen work space with UI-on-demand
Multi-touch navigation with a 2500% zoom
Canvas size: 3GS 1024 x 682 [...]

This is a neat study tool that I came accross lately: “LeedVisual synthesizes difficult information about LEED NC credit into easy to understand and memorizable pictoral format.”

See www.leedvisual.com for more ..

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 RT follows [...]

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 …

Squint/Opera’s architectural visualisation work combines humour and narration with cutting-edge design and imaginative illustrative techniques. Using a visual language, the company channels and translates the creative investigations of the architectural team into a medium that everyone, from the schoolchild to the Mayor, can understand. Here is the latest showreel showing the more Architecturally focused projects [...]

This tool from Microsoft called Image Composite Editor lately caught my attention. It is a free panorama sticher that does not need any information about the camera specs and the order of the images. Just drag your photographs taken from a single camera location to create a high-resolution panorama incorporating all the source images at [...]

The .vismat Material Collection contains 140 high quality .vismat materials for use with VRay for SketchUp and VRay for Rhino, most of which are new and not included in the standard ‘Sample Materials’ distribution.
A wide range of material types are included such as the following:
Architecture, Car Paint, Cloth, Emissive, Glass, Leather, Liquid, Marble, Metal, Misc, [...]