Blender 3D Architect

How to create a glow effect for lights in architecture

Allan Brito — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:46:02 +0000

The work of an architectural visualization artist is not constrained to deal with commercial projects for architecture. From time to time we have to work on the design of a scene for a game or even special effects for a small studio. Besides the modeling of large scenarios and buildings, it seems like architectural visualization [...] Related posts:

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Tutorial HeeksCAD: Another free AutoCAD alternative

Allan Brito — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:18:41 +0000

Among all free alternatives to AutoCAD we have FreeCAD and HeeksCAD on top of the list as the best options for open source CAD solutions. Last week I already posted a small tutorial I found about how to use FreeCAD and today we keep going with the free CAD series and the tutorials shows how [...] Related posts:

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SU2YafaRay: Export from SketchUp to YafaRay

Allan Brito — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:31:41 +0000

The workflow of an architectural visualization project for a Blender artist usually has a final stage when we may use external render engines, like YafaRay and LuxRender. From both renderers the one with the largest number of scripts and plugins that make it compatible with lots of 3d softwares is LuxRender. We have options to [...] Related posts:

Free external renderer for SketchUp: LuxRender with SU2LUX! One of the most used tools to create rough studies...
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Tutorial FreeCAD: Creating 2d views for technical drawing

Allan Brito — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:52:37 +0000

The process of migrating from a CAD application to another software application could demand a lot of work from a professional already used to the commands and solutions. If you have any plans to change your CAD software to one of the open source alternatives to AutoCAD I posted last week, I manage to find [...] Related posts:

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YafaRay 0.1.2 beta available to download

Allan Brito — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:11:56 +0000

Since the end of 2009 an experimental version of YafaRay showing some of the features we can expect to be on YafaRay 0.1.2 is available to download. Now, the same version has moved from an experimental build to a beta state, which means that in a short time the stable release will be available. How [...] Related posts:

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Free download of high resolution textures for architecture

Allan Brito — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:15:17 +0000

As a way to create realistic 3d models for architectural visualization projects, we have to work hard on the 3d models and give them a lot of detail, especially if the camera is placed near surfaces or objects. If you choose to create simpler models and not dedicate too much time on details, I recommend [...] Related posts:

Free ebook on how to model high quality furniture models for architectural visualization Even with lots of free assets available on the internet,...
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List of open source and free alternatives to AutoCAD

Allan Brito — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:22:20 +0000

I got a lot of messages and questions about how to use open source tools to work with architectural visualization, or even technical drawing on Linux. Besides the questions about Blender that I got on my classes and presentations, the most often question is about an open source alternative for AutoCAD. People always ask that [...] Related posts:

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Interactive real-time render for architecture in Blender 2.50

Allan Brito — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:46:46 +0000

The SmallLuxGPU is an experiment to use GPU power to render in real-time using OpenCL and LuxRender. This is an amazing option to work with advanced rendering techniques in Blender, using GPU power to reduce the time to have a clean and noise free image in LuxRender. This week David Bucciarelli author of the project, [...] Related posts:

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External rendering with Blender 2.50

Allan Brito — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:58:37 +0000

One of my concerns about making using Blender 2.50 in my architectural visualization workflow is the lack of support for external renders like LuxRender, YafaRay, Indigo and others. I use those render engines a lot to create scenes and realistic images for my clients and classes. How about the development of those exporter scripts? How [...] Related posts:

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YafaRay Annual Contest 2010: Abandoned Classics

Allan Brito — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:56:28 +0000

In most architectural visualization projects we have a single objective, which is to show a project will look like by the time it is actually build. For computer graphics is quite easy to show and represent perfect surfaces and brand new objects. If you have to work on objects and places that doesn`t look new, [...] Related posts:

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