3D architectual lighting (uni project)

[philio16]

Hey

I'm modelling our building at university in Max (from autoCAD blueprints provided by the maintenance peoples). I'm fine with the modelling, not quite finished yet, but I was looking for some help with lighting. Never done architectural lighting before! In the image I've attatched I have a skylight and a spot light, rendered with the default renderer in max with light tracer activated. I think it looks ok for a first attempt but how can I improve it?

Cheers!

 

[philio16]

Ha, Is that the centenary building?

Yes it is! Do you know it?

Kahn - I've dabbled around with some of those in the past, but never on an important project. Had a look at finalRender which looks pretty snazzy but I can't afford it really Thanks for the info tho, I'm going to do some reading up!

 

[philio16]

Well I finally finished it.....

Animation

if you would like to view the final animation, its ~8mb, 35 secs long!

Can put my feet up and relax now....just need to burn the CD for midday tomorrow!