3ds Max 2019: Advanced Lighting

3ds Max features advanced tools for photometric lighting. Learn to light and render photorealistic exteriors and interiors in 3ds Max 2019.

Introduction

• Advanced lighting overview
• Using the exercise files

1. Concepts

• Photometric lighting
• Gamma correction and linear workflows
• High dynamic range imaging
• Exposure and tone mapping
• Global illumination
• Color temperature

2. Exterior Daylight

• Understanding 3ds Max gamma correction
• Creating a sun positioner
• Setting viewport display options
• Exposure control and tone mapping
• Adjusting Sun & Sky
• Exterior daylight rendering with Arnold
• Arnold render settings and materials

3. Image-Based Lighting

• Image-based lighting with an environment map
• Environment settings in Arnold
• Apply a custom map to the backplate
• Image-based lighting with an Arnold skydome light
• Aligning a sun with an environment
• Exterior sunlight with an Arnold distant light
• White balancing a map
• Constructing a geometric backdrop
• Self-illuminating a backdrop with Emission

4. Interiors

• Interior daylight with Physical Sun & Sky
• Physical material emission for environments
• Approximating sunlight with a photometric disc
• Filling shadows with area soft lights
• Interior artificial light in ART
• Importing photometric data from an IES file
• Interior sunlight with an Arnold distant light
• Ambient sky light with an Arnold quad light
• Collimating an Arnold light beam with Spread
• Focusing an Arnold light beam with Lens Radius

5. Studio Lighting and Effects

• Photometric far attenuation decay
• Attenuation with the Arnold Decay filter modifier
• Projection with a photometric projector map
• Projection with an Arnold Gobo filter
• Art directing an Arnold Gobo filter
• Scene-wide Arnold environment fog
• Setting Arnold properties for volume rendering
• Light fog with Arnold Standard Volume

Conclusion

• Next steps