3ds Max and V-Ray: Residential Exterior Materials

Create custom materials for your architectural renderings and visualizations with 3ds Max, Substance Designer, V-Ray, and Bitmap2Material.

Introduction

• Create realistic materials for 3D models
• Get the most out of the exercise files
• Set up the software

1. Import Assets

• Clean up the SketchUp model
• Import from SketchUp
• Layer the scene
• Fix geometry issues

2. UV Mapping

• Organize geometry for UV mapping
• Use Unwrap UVW
• Adjust UV layouts
• Finalize UVs
• Use MapScaler

3. Create Materials in V-Ray

• Setting up V-Ray
• Create physical materials for V-Ray
• Understanding V-Ray materials
• Displacement mapping in V-Ray

4. Substance Materials in 3ds Max

• Install the Substance plugins
• Use the 3ds Max Asset Library
• Import Substance materials to 3ds Max
• Modify Substance materials in 3ds Max

5. Create Substance Materials

• Create a basic stucco material
• Control relief and gloss
• Expose Substance parameters
• Add the material to 3ds Max
• Adjust the stucco material

6. Use Bitmap2Material To Create Materials

• The Bitmap2Material application
• Using Bitmap2Material inside 3dS Max
• Export Bitmap2Material maps to bitmaps
• Rescale maps with MapScaler
• Build V-Ray materials with Bitmap2Material maps

Conclusion

• Next steps