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Glossy reflections for laminate wood floors in YafaRay for interior design

One of the parts of the creation of any project related with interior design that demands some considerabel amount of time to setup is the materials settings. A very common type of material used to represent the floor, is the laminate wood floor. This is a material that generates a…

Creating realistic grass with Blender 3D and YafaRay for architecture

The most experienced users may remember that a few years ago, when we only had YafRay to work with advanced Global Illumination in Blender 3D, the simulation of grass for external views in architectural visualization projects require a lot of workarounds to be created. The old YafRay didn`t support the…

Table with mesh organization tips for 3D polygon modeling

What is required to learn and develop even more your modeling skills? One of the things that I always say in my modeling classes is that we have to balance the technical side of 3d modeling with the artistic side. Even with the advice to balance the focus of the…

Interactive architectural visualization with the Blender 3D Dome Projection

One of the advantages that Blender 3D offers to architectural visualization artists, is the possibility to create interactive 3d applications, to show visualization projects with no need of coding. The Blender 3D game engine is a great help in this area, because we can create two products with the same…

Getting started with YafaRay and Blender 3D for interior design

I still believe that we may use both YafaRay and LuxRender in our architectural visualization projects, because LuxRender can`t beat YafaRay in one tiny detail: render speed. The quality and realism of the images created with LuxRender are amazing, but they demand long render times to become clear enough to…

Free download of texture maps of trees and shrubs

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…

Modeling a Panton Chair in Blender 3D

One of the new features that are currently in development for Blender 3D and will be a great help for anyone working with architectural visualization, is the rewrite of the NURBS system. If you ever tried to work with the actual NURBS system in Blender you will notice that it…

Controlling lights with LuxRender Light groups

There are a lot of great features and tools in LuxRender that can really help any architectural visualization artist, which uses Blender to model his works to create photo realistic renders. I was testing some of the features introduced lately in LuxRender and one of the features that really caught…