“Traditionally, the way we export out of 3ds Max is through renderings, still image renderings, or animations and real-time rendering game engines,” Cortez says. Minority Report Is Here: 3ds Max and Augmented Reality The Civil View feature set in 3ds Max allows you to take 3D road alignment data from Autodesk Civil 3D or Bentley’s Inroads and link it to 3ds Max. “There’s also a project that we’re working on, a new New York bridge, where we’re taking photography from various vantage points around the Hudson Valley area and camera-matching the new bridge design to the survey and photographs and create photorealistic visual impact studies, to show what designs look like so that they can move on to the next stage in the approval process.”Ĭortez uses visualization techniques to identify potential safety concerns on proposed highway alignments. These days, it’s really hard to tell the difference between a photo and a rendering. We use 3ds Max to visualize how light physically behaves in real life. We have lighting engineers here in the office they study how light hits surfaces and reflects off of and is absorbed by materials. “Here at Arup we use all of that stuff that Hollywood and the game designers use, but we apply it to engineering applications.
(Read more on design, architecture, and gaming.) Rendering of a masterplanning study combining architectural, geotechnical, sustainability, and GIS data to visualize a 34-acre site in South Wales. There are game designers that use it to create game cinematics and environments the visual effects industry uses it to create explosions and crowd simulations. Architects use it to visualize models of buildings. From film, visual effects, video games, and commercials to arch vis, people use Max for modeling, texture mapping, lighting, animation, and rendering. “The strength of 3ds Max is its versatility,” Cortez says. For this article excerpt, Arup Connect interviewed Arup visualization specialist Anthony Cortez about how he uses 3ds Max, the skills visualization artists need during design and construction phases, and how augmented reality in construction is changing the face of visualization. These 3ds Max tips for project visualization are courtesy of Arup Connect via Redshift partner ArchDaily, “the world’s most visited architecture website.” ArchDaily is dedicated to informing and inspiring architects worldwide to improve the quality of life for an estimated three billion people who will move into cities over the next 40 years.Īrup Connect is the online magazine of Arup, an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants, and technical specialists.
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