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- A clever trick to make outdoor lighting more realistic
- Ensure lighting passes through glass
- An easy glowing lighting setup
G’day and welcome to Week 2 of the architectural tutorial series!
Last week I showed you how to model a high rise building and this week we will be applying materials, lighting and compositing to produce a final image that we can send to the (imaginary) client.
That concludes the two part tutorial series! Now go forth and create cities 
As always I’m keen to see whatever you guys produce from this tutorial, so don’t be shy to drop a link in the comment section below!
[update] Featured Community Pics
Here are the best renders from the Blender Guru community after following this tutorial:
- Weird Architecture by Manu
- Destruction by Matt
- Late Afternoon by Bryan Vivas
- Epic city by Kewl Luser
- Apartment Complex by Scotchtapeworm
Drop a link in the comments below to submit your own!
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Hey! I just put my hands on blender after a couple of years of surface-modeling (for industrial design) so I decided to follow your tutorial and this is what I came up with:
http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/8528/blockrain.jpg
The rain is shopped, I checked your tutorial on that topic but when I saw the node editor my mind blowed so I decided to fake it.
thanks for helping all the people like me out there!
hi andrew!
good rendering. especially if you take into account you did not use ao and could not use gi.
just one advice: put the camera straight next time and use camera shift. thats at least the way architects would do it. (straight buildings should be represented by straight lines).
Hey
Sweet tutorial!!!! I noticed in the final render that the lights on the backside of the building actually show through after you apply the glare effect, why is that and how do you stop it?
Hi out there
I need help with some steel-material settings!
Andrew, this video is great but unfortunately I didn’t find an answer for myself
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=205936
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for this tutorial and all the others you’ve been putting up for free. I appreciate the immense benefit you’ve given many people and again, thanks.
I have a problem with the node editor. Following the High Rise Rendering tutorial, when I reach the part at about 18:50 or 19:00 minutes, you show opening the node editor, adding a new node, then from the Render Layer drop down, you select “Lights”. When I select the Render Layer drop down, the only option available is “Render Layer”. I’m using 2.5 Beta, I have next to no Node Editing or Compositing experience, so there are many basics that could be interfering. If you can help, thanks and if not, that’s ok too. You’ve been an amazingly generous benefactor to the Blender community anyway.
Mike
Hi
Thank you very much for this tutorial – here is my creation:
http://skywalger.deviantart.com/#/d3a6g62
Awesome tutorial, I liked it very much.
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I made this with it:
a 15 floor highraise with every single room different from each other (obviously low graphics inside, I don’t have enough power on my pc to fill it with good looking stuff
So yeah, this is it… hope you will enjoy it!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrickblender/5479469265/
Anyone else having problems keeping Blender from crashing? I haven’t had much trouble with it in the past but this project pushed it over the edge.
I’m running 2.5.7 r36189
Thanks
I think it has something to do with the arrays.
If you want info on the building for inspiration here is a link to the website
http://www.suterbrook.ca/aria-2-400-capilano-road-port-moody-condos-townhouses-for-sale
Wow $282,900 for 1 apartment.
The view is nice but that’s high. And tiny rooms.
Thanks for sharing Joe.
BTW, I updated Blender to the newest version and no more crashes.
And here is my creation:
http://www.parkin-fx.com/models/HighRise_completed.jpg
hallo. that´s it> http://imageshack.us/f/717/prediofinal.png/
good tuto, bad student, hahah
this was an awesome tutorial, now im using it in a short animation me and a friend are creating…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62769349@N06/5711175574/
Hellow, everyone, I am glad to meet you.
I appreciate this tutorial program.
but, so speedy to me because my skill is insufficient.
Above all, I can’t know a know-how that reveal new small screen of blend file list at 15:26..etc .what is this shot-cut for that small screen or other method. please give me a advise.
Hellow, everyone, I am glad to meet you.
In my renderlayer, I can,t find lights ia dropdown at 18:30.
why can not I it? what,s wrong ?
please guide me.
When i try and put the background texture onto the plane at the end, it doesnt show on the plane in the 3D view, and only a small part of it shows up in the render..