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The software package Allplan provides a single tool design, which will be an invaluable asset to your project office or construction firm. The spectrum of its functionality is extremely large and diverse and covers all stages of the design work, from preliminary design to detailed design of project plans.

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Lumion is a real-time 3D visualization tool for architects, urban planners and designers. ItТs perfectly suited for creating videos, still renderings and live demonstrations with a quick turnaround.

Renditioner Pro enables you to easily produce stunning photorealistic renderings of your Google SketchUp models. Renditioner Pro is the advanced version of Renditioner with more powerful capabilities, and print quality results. Launch directly from SketchUp and your model is automatically loaded. Then simply setup the model for rendering with intuitive drag and drop, lighting, material, camera and environment controls. Professional rendering controls such as Progressive and Sub-Image rendering allow you to quickly test and visualize many different rendering scene variations of your design. Multi-threaded rendering will speed the regeneration time as fast as your system can go.

Continuing from his first DVD, Global Illumination: Exteriors, Christopher Nichols explains how interior global illumination differs from exterior GI. Christopher focuses on the concept of digital sets and explores issues of interior lighting for GI, including the variety of light sources that can be used, as well as how space plays an important role in lighting. Christopher demonstrates the differences between regular light sources, environment light, IES lighting, area lights, and even how geometry and shaders can affect the lighting of a scene. Additionally, since bouncing light plays an important role in interior GI, this lecture looks at some special techniques such as using V-Ray’s photon mapping and light cache. Christopher also explores the idea of baking lighting into textures, which is a useful technique for some situations. With Global Illumination: Interiors, you will see the rendering of an interior space in a whole new light.

In this lecture on the subject of Global Illumination lighting techniques, Christopher Nichols discusses the subject of exterior lighting. This DVD covers a general introduction to the principles of Global Illumination, which are essential to the understanding of this specialized form of lighting. While the series primarily uses V-Ray as the render engine in a 3ds Max environment, those using other GI renderers will also benefit from the conceptual techniques described. From the general concepts of reflected specular and diffuse light, to sky lights and image based lighting with HDRIs, Christopher shows how to light scenes using real world lighting in a fully reflective environment. He also demonstrates how to tackle the issues of animation by finding the most optimal way to bake lighting for exterior sets. This series is geared toward the CG artist that already has an intermediate understanding of direct lighting and is making the transition to GI lighting.

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This is a collection of 3d models from CGAXIS.

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