Other 3d tools
Posted by Allan Brito on June 25th, 2009 ~
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What could be better than downloading furniture models for your projects? Well, I could say a lot of things and among them a good set of texture maps of plans, trees and shrubs. If you want to download a set like this to use in your projects, an artist called…
Posted by Allan Brito on May 27th, 2009 ~
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One of the big news about the rendering market last week was the announcement of new releases from two major commercial render engines. In a few weeks we will see a new version of V-Ray and FryRender, both dedicated to work with real-time rendering. They are called V-Ray RT and…
Posted by Allan Brito on May 4th, 2009 ~
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In Blender 3d we have several external renderers to choose today and almost all of them add great tools and possibilities to any artist producing architectural visualization, and with the need to create photo real images. A quick look at the Blender Gallery will show that today, we have most…
Posted by Allan Brito on April 7th, 2009 ~
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The correct and efficient use of solar energy to warm and illuminate environments is even important for architectural projects. Last week I was talking with a friend of mine, who asks me about a way to project the sun position in Blender 3D, to show a client the position of…
Posted by Allan Brito on March 19th, 2009 ~
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An architectural visualization project has the same challenges and problems as any kind of computer graphics job. In some case we will have to deal with the lack of information from the client, which will lead some decisions from the artist to get the project finished. For instance, if we…
Posted by Allan Brito on February 25th, 2009 ~
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This article is not directly related to Blender, but since most artists involved in architectural visualization projects need CAD software like AutoCAD, and for most of us AutoCAD is not an option because of the high cost of the license, I believe that every tip or software that can replace…
Posted by Allan Brito on January 12th, 2009 ~
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Well, this article is not about Blender 3D like the other ones, but I do believe that the resource that I`m going to talk about is very valuable for anyone interested on developing even more, in architectural modeling. Last week I was browsing a few sites when I found a…