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3ds Max 2019: Advanced Lighting

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Overview

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3ds Max features advanced tools for photometric lighting. Learn to light and render photorealistic exteriors and interiors in 3ds Max 2019.

Syllabus

Introduction

Advanced lighting overview
Using the exercise files

1. Concepts

Photometric lighting
Gamma correction and linear workflows
High dynamic range imaging
Exposure and tone mapping
Global illumination
Color temperature

2. Exterior Daylight

Understanding 3ds Max gamma correction
Creating a sun positioner
Setting viewport display options
Exposure control and tone mapping
Adjusting Sun & Sky
Exterior daylight rendering with Arnold
Arnold render settings and materials

3. Image-Based Lighting

Image-based lighting with an environment map
Environment settings in Arnold
Apply a custom map to the backplate
Image-based lighting with an Arnold skydome light
Aligning a sun with an environment
Exterior sunlight with an Arnold distant light
White balancing a map
Constructing a geometric backdrop
Self-illuminating a backdrop with Emission

4. Interiors

Interior daylight with Physical Sun & Sky
Physical material emission for environments
Approximating sunlight with a photometric disc
Filling shadows with area soft lights
Interior artificial light in ART
Importing photometric data from an IES file
Interior sunlight with an Arnold distant light
Ambient sky light with an Arnold quad light
Collimating an Arnold light beam with Spread
Focusing an Arnold light beam with Lens Radius

5. Studio Lighting and Effects

Photometric far attenuation decay
Attenuation with the Arnold Decay filter modifier
Projection with a photometric projector map
Projection with an Arnold Gobo filter
Art directing an Arnold Gobo filter
Scene-wide Arnold environment fog
Setting Arnold properties for volume rendering
Light fog with Arnold Standard Volume

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Aaron F. Ross

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