Architectural Rendering Using 3ds Max

In this lesson, 3D designer Yuval Dorfman walks through setting up the render of a home basement in 3ds Max, using the architectural drawings of a home.

Follow along with Yuval Dorfman as he continues demonstrating how to accurately draw a basement from architectural drawings in 3ds Max.

This lesson finishes up the basement in 3ds Max, with its walls, doors and windows, finally adding on the interior ceiling as shown in the architect's drawing.

In this lesson, 3D designer Yuval Dorfman demonstrates how to use an architectural drawing to set up the exterior render of the first floor of a home in 3ds Max

Learn how to shorten the drawing time of the ground floor plan as well as how to stack the completed floor exactly on top of the basement level in 3ds Max.

3D designer Yuval Dorfman continues these lessons for rendering an architectural drawing in 3ds Max, reviewing the basic steps to get an accurate layout.

This lesson demonstrates how to draw the layout of the second floor plan of the architectural drawing, accurately creating all the walls and windows in 3ds Max.

3D designer Yuval Dorfman shows how to move the second floor of your home model accurately and how to make modifications to the exterior walls in 3ds Max.

This lesson from walks through drawing the external elements and roof of the house and modifying them in 3ds Max according to the architectural drawing.

Learn how to add the roof covering and its openings, as well as how to make the balcony overhang on a drawing of a house in this lesson about 3ds Max.

Sometimes, an architectural drawing can present incomplete or inconsistent information. Learn how to deal with these issues in this 3ds Max lesson.

In this lesson, 3D designer Yuval Dorfman demonstrates in 3ds Max how to accurately adjust external elements for windows and other architectural details.

This 3ds Max lesson covers how to draw parts of the house that are underground or built on specific topography, like stairs and window wells.

This lesson reviews how to construct the external stairs for this 3D drawing in 3ds Max and demonstrates how to make the necessary adjustments for accuracy.

This 3ds Max lesson demonstrates how to create a round balcony railing, as well as external stair wells for the basement steps for a 3D house drawing.

Discover how to approach a lack of information when drawing in 3ds Max, as well as how to import files for use on your project from another file.

This lesson goes over how to add windows to a drawing easily and accurately in 3ds Max, as well as how to scale them and place a group of windows together.

This lesson continues demonstrating how to edit window sizes in 3ds Max, and also provides tips for making quick and easy group edits for the windows.

In this 3ds Max lesson, learn how to edit sliding glass doors for size and placement, but also how to add a third panel to the larger ground-floor doors.

Follow along with 3D designer Yuval Dorfman as he demonstrates how to modify windows in 3ds Max by deleting panes, adjusting frames, and adding crossbars.

This lesson covers more options for editing different types of windows, cloning them, and positioning them on a 3ds Max model quickly and accurately.

This lesson begins the process of assigning materials to objects in the house model made in 3ds Max, starting with the chrome balcony railing and its glass.

In this lesson, 3D designer Yuval Dorfman demonstrates how to blur reflections on a chrome surface, and how to add a texture to walls in 3ds Max.

This lesson from 3D designer Yuval Dorfman covers how to select objects for easier edits, as well as how to create natural looking V-Ray textures for interiors.

In this 3ds Max lesson, learn how to make the textures for the tiles stand out, as well as how to apply them uniformly to each floor in the model.

In this lesson, learn how to make a large selection of individual elements in 3ds Max, batch edit their textures, and also start to add in the back deck.

This 3ds Max lesson covers how to divide the basic deck shape into planks and how to add and edit a warm, natural wood texture onto the object.

This lesson demonstrates how to add a backyard polygon with a grass texture in 3ds Max, and also covers how to remove unwanted texture seams in Photoshop.

In this lesson, learn how to set up the displacement map for the grass, and then dive into setting up the camera for the final render of the house in 3ds Max!

This lesson covers how to add in a sun for realistic lighting in 3ds Max, and which V-Ray settings to have to make your rendering look as natural as possible.

Follow along with 3D designer Yuval Dorfman as he demonstrates setting up a light in V-Ray, choosing an HDRi image for the sky, and setting it up in 3ds Max.

This lesson covers adjusting the HDRi background as well as setting up a plane in V-Ray that will help reflect light to naturally light the scene.

In this lesson, learn how to set up another lighting dome in 3ds Max to control reflections, as well as how to add the fence so it fits in the scene.

This 3ds Max lesson covers finding the necessary textures and models online for the exterior, as well as making sure they are placed correctly within the scene.

Learn how to reduce the impact of adding multi-million polygon geometries to your computer in this 3ds Max lesson by using V-Ray Proxies and cloning instances.

Learn how to set up each of the settings necessary for the 3ds Max plugin V-Ray to work its best in this lesson from 3D designer Yuval Dorfman.

In this lesson from 3D designer Yuval Dorfman, learn a clever way to use the built-in trees in 3ds Max and convert them into bushes using Ivy Generator.

Learn how to place bushes and foliage in 3ds Max to frame your image, as well as how to extend the yard to the front of the house to fill in the background.

In this lesson, follow along for some more tips on editing foliage and picking the right textures to add even more details to the final rendering in 3ds Max.

This 3ds Max lesson demonstrates concealing the V-Ray plane with background trees, as well as downloading and adding deck furniture to the scene.

In this lesson before the last step, review the importance of keeping files for 3ds Max accessible, as well as the settings needed for rendering.

Learn how to take the global illumination images, reflection images, and others into layers and that can be used to create one complete image of your 3D model.

Learn how to set up an alpha channel to create a mask in 3ds Max that you can then use in Photoshop to edit and adjust the look of the sky in your scene.