If you want to setup a standard material in architecture such as bricks, it would be great to have some seamless textures to play around. With seamless textures, you can repeat those images on a large surface and have no apparent “connection” between each one of them. Even for artists, that choose to paint their […]
The most common scene we encounter on almost all architectural visualization is the living room and sometimes a dining room. It is not easy to find projects that show private spaces of the house as the bathroom. And speaking of bathrooms, we can quickly state that along with the kitchen those may be the hardest […]
What is the best way to add trees to an architectural visualization scenes? In my opinion, the best option would be using high-resolution textures with an alpha map correctly configured on 2d planes. Textures will do the job most of the time. But, at some projects they might not be enough, and you may have […]
In the past few weeks, I found an incredible collection of materials and textures created for Unreal Engine, and besides the fact that this is a fantastic resource for game development it could also be useful for architectural visualization. Wait, how a collection of materials designed for the Unreal Engine could help architectural visualization artists […]
The feedback about the online courses I’m offering here at Blender 3D Architect have been great so far, and I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone that enrolled on my first course. Later today I will be posting the last videos and images for the first version of the course about architectural modeling with […]
The use of normal maps is a smart and efficient way to create 3d geometry with no need of extra polygons on your project. A problem that many architectural visualization artists encounter is that usually we have a lot of textures for color but very few to use as normal maps. There are lots of […]
At this moment, you are probably getting ready for Christmas and doesn’t want anything related to work on your way to the holidays. But, what about some free furniture files? There is always time to get some extra furniture files and especially if they have a high polygon count as the ones offered by Redome […]
One of the best ways to get started with any external render in Blender is to get scene examples to study and see how it works. And following this principle you can download a few sample scenes with a complete setup in LuxRender! At the Show-off pack, you will find a lot of scenes rendered […]
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