3ds Max and V-Ray: Residential Interior Materials

Learn how to create beautiful residential interiors with custom materials built in 3ds Max, Substance Designer, and V-Ray.

Introduction

• Create beautiful residential interior materials
• Residential project overview

1. Furnish the Interior

• Third-party model libraries
• Model your own objects
• UV mapping objects
• Preview rendered materials
• Add furniture to the structure

2. Basic Materials

• Create basic V-Ray materials
• Use physical materials
• Create metallic surfaces
• Create stainless steel
• Work with palette textures
• Create rough wood

3. Create Materials in Substance

• Set up Substance
• Using the 3ds Max Asset Library
• Import Substance library materials into 3ds Max

4. Substance Workflow

• Set up the Substance material
• Define the cloth pattern
• Tile the pattern
• Add color to the material
• Add relief to the material
• Expose Substance parameters
• Import custom Substance materials into 3ds Max
• Adjust the V-Ray material

5. Use Substance to Create Bitmaps

• Set up the Substance material
• Define the carpet pattern
• Create normals
• Define surface roughness
• Add color
• Export bitmaps to 3ds Max
• Create the V-Ray material from bitmaps
• Adjust the V-Ray material

Conclusion

• Next steps