After working with 3DS Max for a week now, I am still no closer to understanding it - I press a button on one occasion, and it does something completely different to when I did it the time before. And for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to render the darn thing - I even pleaded for help in the tutorial from a 3DS Max veteran, and even she couldn't figure out what I'd done wrong to make the program hate me (I have managed to destroy 4 hard drives in my lifetime, never doing anything wrong, so I have come to the conclusion that technology hates me).
Last semester I bravely ventured into the world of Sketch Up for the first time (I know, I'm a late bloomer, I just love drawing by hand so much!), but quickly became frustrated and gave up. But I'm back with new vigour to try again - and this time with success!
I thought I'd try and start modelling my interiors (which would be too finicky to try in 3DS Max anyway) and the street front facades of my building. I also downloaded Vray, which has made me so much happier with how my designs are turning out!
I did some quick renders of my building so far - the below shot is of the front facade on Queen Street. The curved glass wall is made of the same OLED panels as the curved surface on the upper levels of the building, but I still need to work with materials to make that apparent.
The below shot is of the Voting Room, where holographic or touch screen panels are scattered for people to interact with and vote on the proposals for Brisbane's development. They also move up and down, like bar graphs, to physically represent the proposal's popularity (eg. the taller the screen the more popular it is).
Fiddling round with interior shots has been difficult. The below images are of the Queen Street entrance, which leads to the Child Care Centre on the left, Voting Room to the right, and central staircase and lightwell. As you can see, the space is far too dark, and my attempts at introducing rectangular lights has failed.
Same goes for the Lecture Room and Bar, but again some tweaking got me towards a much better lighting result.
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