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Jun

Completed project – kitchen

Posted by: Oana | Comments (4)

Here it is, rendered with Blender Internal, mostly modelled by me. Apples are from Blogoscopia, books from Archibase.

Kitchen interior – practice render from photograph. Source: Dwell magazine & remodelista.

Categories : Blender internal render engine, Blender stuff, Finished projects, Lights, Materials, Modeling

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May

Currently blending… (BI interior light setup)

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I reluctantly gave up the fun Cycles testing and went back to the official release. However, my spirits went up again soon as I started to put together the main elements of my interior scene and the first lighting setup gave a promising result:

Categories : Blender internal render engine, Interior scenes, Lights

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May

Easy outdoor lighting for an architectural render

Posted by: Oana | Comments (1)

I love the Internal Blender renderer more each day.

For the architectural exterior rendering I’m working on (see previous post) I am trying to keep it as simple as possible but hoping it will look like global illumination. In my first tests I used just a Sun lamp with raytraced shadows and the trick is done with the world panel settings, AO set on multiply and Environment lighting with sky texture which casts into the scene the colors from my background photo (that’s an actual photograph of the project building site). Last time I fiddled with the settingsI reached this conclusion:

Categories : Blender internal render engine, Lights, Rendering

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May

Currently blending…

Posted by: Oana | Comments (2)

On and off I have been working on a friend’s project. Luckily he wasn’t in much of a hurry…

It’s a small family house to be built near Bucharest.

I’d rather model any project myself but this model was already built in cad and transferred to max, so I used a 3ds max export – just to see how can I use an imported model. It opened wery well in Blender, keeping object names. If correct settings are set when importing in max from autocad, you can have objects derived from layers, using the layer’s names. No errors appeared on the meshes, so I was set to go with a blank canvas.

This project was really useful to me. Not bothered with modelling, I could directly test various light setups and this is the one that seemed to work best: