Vray Next for Rhino | Therme Vals Vray Study

Vray Next for Rhino | Therme Vals Vray Study

Therme Vals Vray Study is a 2-day event – the workshop consists of two consecutive sections, an 8-hour familiarization with the work environment, an 8-hour training course for rendering the interior scene of the house.

Therme Vals Vray Study – Vray for Rhino Master class is a 2 day rendering course of an interior architectural visualisation. This 16-hour course is designed for everyone who is interested in gaining visualization skills, resulting in a professional level photorealistic exterior scene. Students follow a linear process from understanding image composition and color theory, to creating and controlling lighting set-ups and reproducing physical accurate materials. Workshop will conclude with post-production techniques and tricks in Photoshop. Information will flow in an accelerated pace.

The overall process will be close enough to the beginner level so that even people who have not work with related programs so far will be easily able to follow. It is strongly recommended to attend the whole course to get a complete understanding of the workflow until the result. Any experience with Rhinoceros interface helpful but not required.

Prominent Features of the Workshop/ Skills developed

At decode™ effective training is achieved via an intriguing goal by contrast of generic exercises.

In this class, you will systematically move through the user interface, V-ray physical camera settings, the concepts of global and indirect illumination, frame buffer channels, material creation and raw image results.

Structure

In this training course you will learn to create photorealistic interior visualizations, using the V-ray for Rhino render engine. This fast moving class covers most of V-ray’s functionality, regarding interior scene setup. You will systematically move through, the Rhino/V-ray interface, understand different V-ray light types, create an array of physical accurate materials in V-ray, get familiar with image quality parameters, thus acquiring concrete knowledge for coping with any interior visualization, regardless complexity of the scene. The duration of the course is 16 hours. The course in intensive and spans 2 consecutive days.

Curriculum

At decode™  effective training is achieved through a real-life project setting instead of generic exercises. All V-ray material will be taught by getting the Peter Zumthor Therme Vals scene ready for final render. In this way each student will be guided through the experience of completing a challenging and interesting visualization project, building up knowledge and confidence for dealing with various scene setups, just like a professional would. Through the Therme Vals rendering steps the following concepts will be covered:

• Get acquainted with the Rhino viewports.
• Navigate around model space.
• Rhino layering system for rendering purposes.
• V-ray camera set-up.
• Global Illumination(GI) lighting.
• Lighting the scene with V-ray lights.
• Material editor
• Image sampling techniques- DMC Sampler
• Indirect illumination-Primary/Secondary bounces calculation algorithms
• V-ray frame buffer (VFB) channels
• Photoshop layers composition and basic post production techniques.

V-ray Option Editor

• V-ray sunlight system
• Portal Lighting method
• Rectangular lights
• Dome lights

V-ray Lights

• V-ray sunlight system
• HDRI based lighting
• Rectangular lights
• Dome lights
• IES lights

Material Creation & Texture mapping

• Create standard material
• Create your very own custom materials from scratch
• Diffuse color/map slot
• Transparency
• Reflection: Color/TexFresnel, Glossiness
• Refraction: IOR, Glossiness
• Emmisive materials
• Apply materials to geometry
• Texture mapping: box mapping, surface mapping, cylindrical mapping, spherical mapping
• Match mapping
• Assigning coordinates

Expected Outcomes

After this course the student is expected to be able to:

• Move comfortably around the V-ray for Rhino menus.
• Understand different V-ray light types and scene-lighting techniques.
• Create your very own custom materials from scratch.
• Understand sampling quality concepts and efficiently alternate between different setups.
• Produce raw image files and utilize VFB channels.
• Bring “to life” your images through basic post-production steps in Photoshop.

Pre-requisites

Target Audience

This course is for architects, interior and industrial designers and of course design enthusiasts who want to efficiently learn the concepts and features of the Rhinoceros modelling software and V-ray for Rhino render engine at an accelerated pace in an instructor-led environment.

Pre-requisites

Requires Windows skills and desire to produce stunning visuals. Previous experience with Rhinoceros interface helpful but not required. If trainees have attempted to work through tutorials on either evaluation, student or commercial version of V-ray for Rhino, this will help.) If you would like an evaluation version, please contact us at info@formdecode.com.

All participants should consider the following:

• decode™ provides workstation PCs on demand for students who request so, but you can still bring your own laptop should you prefer to do so.
• In case you decide to work via your personal laptop then you need to have:
  • Rhinoceros3d V6.0 installed. You can download an evaluation version fromhttp://www.rhino3d.com/
  • Vray Next for Rhino 6.0 installed. You can download a demo version fromhttp://www.chaosgroup.com
• Be at decode™ at least 15min before the workshop start hour.

Have lots of patience and positive thinking, learning is fun after all!