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3ds Max: Rendering with Arnold

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LinkedIn Learning
Pricing

Free Trial Available
Languages

English
Certificate

Certificate Available
Duration & workload

3 hours 24 minutes
Sessions

On-Demand
Level

Intermediate

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Learn how to use the core features of Arnold, the high-quality rendering engine in 3ds Max, for lighting, texturing, and rendering 3D scenes.

Syllabus

Introduction

Welcome
Using the exercise files
Updating the MAXtoA plugin

1. Concepts

Course prerequisites
Introducing Arnold
Arnold rendering concepts

2. Processing and Interactivity

Setting 3ds Max preferences
Creating a default template scene
ActiveShade rendering
Tuning sampling quality
Controlling global illumination Ray Depth
Preview materials with GPU rendering

3. Environment Lighting

Image-based lighting with scene environment
Image-based lighting with a skydome
Daylighting with Arnold Physical Sky
Using multiple Skydome lights
Setting color temperature of an environment
Improving light samples
Using Environment Advanced mode

4. Studio Lighting

Creating an Arnold Quad Light
Setting Arnold Quad Light parameters
Rendering self-illuminated surfaces
Setting Arnold Properties for an object
Improving skydome interiors with Portal mode
Control distance intensity with a Light Decay filter
Emulating sunlight with an Arnold distant light
Creating an Arnold spot light
Focusing Lens Radius for a collimated beam

5. Materials and Maps

Creating an Arnold Standard Surface
Base color and specular roughness
Mapping material parameters
Surface relief with bump mapping
Rendering metallic surfaces with metalness
Mapping opacity
Refracting light with transmission
Shading with ambient occlusion
Building an Arnold shading network

6. Rendering

Test rendering with the utility map
Mesh subdivision with Arnold Properties
Render adaptive displacement
Optimize subdivision with frustum culling
Control displacement with Arnold Properties
Panorama rendering with a spherical camera

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Aaron F. Ross

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