advice: what course to follow?

[serioires]

Good morning.
I have to learn how to produce photographs, extracted from 3d building programs, which are very photo-realistic.
to learn I thought I would sign up for a course (price 500-100 euros...), and on the web I saw that every software has its own course (3ds max, v-ray, rhinoceros, etc.) but I don't know which of these fits my needs. . .
Since there is a lot of money at stake, and since I am at the beginning and I cannot despair, I am addressing you to ask for help.. .

as a 3d building rendering program I know at the average level allplan, revit and archicad. I would like to understand which program allows me to make the photos (extracted from the above-mentioned programs) more realistic, and maybe (if there is) correct some detail (e.g.: insert a sky, a landscape or a "background" different from the default program type archicad).

I understand that it is a bit strange topic: (I hope in your understanding. . .

 

[Tristan]

if you work mainly with allplan or with archicad I recommend cinema4d, if you start instead from revit go direct on 3ds max. do not hope to become operational immediately after the course. average to produce good renderings takes several hundred hours of study and field practice.

 

[serioires]

Hi, I'm gonna take a look at everything I understand.

I like cad use a low-cost program that produces dwg files... but in 2d.
I do not think there is a program that, starting from a dwg 2d, can allow me to realize directly a "realistic" effect. Right?

to achieve this "realistic" effect, I must first create a 3d with allplan, revit or archicad (which provide me with little "realistic" elaborates) and then process the files produced by these with the programs you recommend to get some more real photos.

Is everything right?

 

[Tristan]

almost everything...it is not true that archicad & co. produce unrealistic renderings. e.g. revit uses the same rendering engine of 3ds max (mental ray); It would be enough to use well to achieve good results. if you want to do something with an extra gear (especially at animation level) you will have to go for dedicated software.

 

[Tristan]

This is for example it is obtained by revit + showcase with a very limited commitment (of course it is necessary to use well revit)

p.s. not to look after the texture of the grass...it would have been better to change the scale at least but I noticed it to rendering finished and I had no time to remake everything by daccapo

 

[serioires]

I get it. revit is the program that I can use less in fact.. .

But if I understood correctly, if you used it yourself, you wouldn't be able to achieve that graphic effect. You had to lean on showcase.
showcase is a software comparable to 3ds max or sketchup, right?

 

[Tristan]

If you used it yourself, you wouldn't be able to achieve that graphic effect.

No, I could have. But I needed to present the project in a certain way, with animations and alternatives so I preferred to support myself from immediately to showcase also for the photorealistic rendering.

showcase is a software comparable to 3ds max or sketchup, right?

absolutely no. showcase is a simple presentation software. does not have, like 3ds max, modeling tools. the model must be made elsewhere.

 

[serioires]

I'm asking you to be patient with me again...

What do you mean by:

with animations and alternatives

a simple presentation software

modeling tools

 

[Tristan]

a simple presentation software ... with animations and alternatives ...
http://ctrl-alt-cad.blogspot.it/2011/06/e-ora-di-showcase.html
http://ctrl-alt-cad.blogspot.it/2011/07/cross-sections-behaviors.htmlmodeling tools are those tools that, in coins, allow you to "build" the 3d model. among the most used there are (beyond the primitive standards like cube, cone etc...) extrude, loft, sweep, revolve (or lathe in 3ds).

 

[serioires]

in practice:
presentation software > program that only changes the textures, shades and textures.
modeling tool > in practice if I want an aquarium in the middle of a room, and my revit does not have it, I create it with a modeling tool (which can also be used by presentation software).


Is everything right? :biggrin:

 

[Tristan]

I would say that we are here.

 

[serioires]

So if you think I'm specializing with revit, what kind of program would you like to join us? I think I'm self-taught. the course I will make it photoshop. that perhaps is more complex:biggrin:

blender
sketchup
3ds max
...?

 

[Tristan]

3ds max all life!
More complex photoshop? than 3ds is a toy. . .

 

[serioires]

very useful but very useful, thank you for patience and precision.

we say that with revit + 3d max I should be able to learn how to make of worthy level. :smile:

mal che go, if 3d max will cost me too much, which between blender and sketchup could be "muply compatible" with revit?

 

[Tristan]

mal che go, if 3d max will cost me too much, which between blender and sketchup could be "muply compatible" with revit?

sketchup doesn't have a rendering engine, let it go. blender is a great software also because open source (and therefore free!) but not a great one compatible with revit. also has a particularly osticated interface. anyway download it and try it, so much is free. Then you see...

 

[serioires]

do they exist for free? :biggrin:

 

[Tristan]

compatible with revit? I don't know. .

 

[serioires]

How can I thank you for everything you've done for me? :biggrin:

 

[Tristan]

I didn't do anything. .

 

[radiosity980]

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