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Lighting for 3D Models

Sunday, April 19th, 2009 – running time 15:11
Architects and engineers will love this episode about 3D lighting. Bert demonstrates how to add lighting to a 3D model car.

Obtain a 3D model car and add lighting
Download a 3d model from the web. You can often find these for free. In the 3d control panel, scale, rotate and position the car to your desired working size. Open the 3d (Lights) panel and you can adjust the Infinite lights to brighten or darken the color of the car. Changing the color of the light source can also make the paint of the car appear as a different color.

Illuminate the inside of your 3D model car
A Point Light can be applied to car inside the cabin. This will illuminate the interior of the car like a light bulb.

Add texture and reflection to a 3D model
In the 3d (Materials) panel, you can load a texture through the Environment tool. You can load a photo and it will be reflected on the 3d model, much like a moving vehicle through a neighborhood like San Francisco. As you rotate your model, the reflection changes accordingly.

Check out the inside of your 3d Model
The Cross Section functionality in the 3d (Scene) panel can create a plane that splits your 3d model in half, allowing you to see the insides of your 3d model. Adjust the intersection, offset, and tilts upon the X, Y, or Z axis to change your view.

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Highlights
new book ( 14:08, 14:08 ) 3-D ( 3:10, 3:26, 8:59, 12:00, 3:10, 3:26, 8:59, 12:00 ) Blu-ray ( 1:53, 1:53 ) PS3 ( 2:27, 2:27 ) new book ( 14:08, 14:08 ) 3-D ( 3:10, 3:26, 8:59, 12:00, 3:10, 3:26, 8:59, 12:00 ) Blu-ray ( 1:53, 1:53 ) PS3 ( 2:27, 2:27 )

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" War."

" This episode pixel perfect you've brought do you buy and Netflix and godaddy.com. I'm just hanging around the dungeon here for a little while. And on today's show. We did last week didn't look a little further look at it lights and community that background by the way. This was sent to us by David Rogers to look at this thing. Pretty cool stuff up on the dungeon. So anyway it. Before we start I want to thank our sponsors. A stubborn thing thank you godaddy.com. Who makes it easy to customize your own virtual dedicated server -- is one of three popular plans or selector on an X. What windows server with all the plan options you need. Plus and to cope recuperated CNN screamed and when you check out you can register your domain name for seven dollars and 49 cents that is really a bargain. Some restrictions do apply see site for details get your piece of the Internet at godaddy.com. Also want to -- Netflix for sponsoring pixel perfect. Would Netflix you can rent over 90000. Titles online including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to your home. They now have over forty shipping centers so almost all deliveries happen in just one business day. The Netflix plans start from four dollars and 99 cents an as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out at www. Netflix.com. -- slash. Pixel perfect and remember you do have that type in net WWW. When using this code. Now on to the show. That's really we talk about the PS3 we're talking about the lighting so today we're gonna take an object then we're going to light it and to a few other things to. -- you one other little cool feature that if you're an architect. You're gonna really like this -- an engineer. Trying out new products and so on. I'm gonna show you the work an actual model. Now I got an airplane mode screen tackle the -- that's gonna -- thrilled that really. Analysts say new layer from -- B file now what I'm going to bring up is a job and actual file that I you have."

" Downloaded from the web I did put -- from the web it's as the guy here it's a -- sun and earth X that is and here it comes and I just -- suicide -- free 3-D models into Google and came up with these sites and -- one here that cars. All kinds of cars and they're free. So you can download and some you have to pay but. Most cases their food and even if you have paid it to listen to for client and -- pay a few bucks 3-D model. I he's gonna going out and -- if you software to build these elaborate models to download from the web -- my little my little cough. -- comes into its own media player. Look at easy to add that to be there has all these different features to it. Some going to Canada so the modified as a guy a little bit. Backdoor but this little control appear that I think you'll remember you can go in there and make a little bigger if you want to you can move it around too heavy want to put it. Position where you wanna -- down -- keep it up there has got our images got bigger than -- right here this little box and to start. Pulling it up I'm making my car bigger they're -- also do from here. It might do and garden tool. Which is a whole load so I just go in there and -- like that mortgages but this little box here and do it I don't little rotation on it. I don't here and say how little data on this sex is right here. And it's just turn it out like that that looks good and that's is moving into position right where I wanted which is gonna be right there centers. NRC. All right so now. Right now it's very dark. His cards very dark of going to get -- three panel. We see that the in the lighting it has some of -- lights but right now they're very dark. So I could go in there and the increase. Some of the the view on these guys. It's going it is the third one then -- increased intensity a little bit. It's gonna just bring it up on the bit just a little at a time until I got exactly the I was on the pick up the card. Tarzan is that we know that light is right in there. -- that in light to I'm going there."

" And increased in strength -- it really brighten up the card it's been going on just a tad. Like that that looks good and consider like me which is. Gun control -- that that's controlling the top of a car that we -- these light sources. A pretty dark to begin with in my want to go under and lighten that up a little bit this -- will keep into the blues and which is lightened up some of those areas there now. You know two sports car like blue but in this particular case. I like to do with something else on live over here tonight materials and I see that right -- I got this body color May Day which is blue from -- click on that. And the change is to rid one red sports car the right off the bat equity that changed got a red sports car. Now want to give it some additional lights would go to my lights over here and we get a new spotlight. A spotlight. Now want to see my lights. I would assume highlights it was -- there are some return on so my spotlight right now is underneath there so and also bring that spotlight up. Great there. And that's twelve and Iran has been towards us a little more but K and it's twirled it around so that it's pointing at our car. Like so. Let's bring it down and there you see there's store and go right on top of the car. Just like that that looks good I am I want to give a little more fall so this just going to say this in the 75 on that. And we got this nice bright light. We might want to make a little -- now that's that's pretty good so now I'm going to do them and add one more light and another -- and at. Point -- That you remember last week we told about the point like being -- a lightbulb. Not inside the Cardoza. Glass windows but I don't really see the inside in his car someone picked my -- like that I just created. There's my point night. Yeah it is time to get my controls and find out where at a point that is their it is as at a point like. There it is right there so now I'm gonna take it and move it inside the car seat there it is inside is going through the windshield right to there. And it's inside the car now. Right inside and it's inside the car we don't need to see you guys anymore. Sudan's there we're gonna take that light inside antenna increased its strength to see this lighting up parts of the inside a car. Right inside there -- hollow and it's a kind of loaded up everything but now we can kind of see the lights the horrendous -- there there's out of the seats. -- we've got all the stuff going on this course don't look nice and bright. Now bits kind of Mac its doesn't really have much of on life to it so to -- going to do. We're gonna go over here to our our materials. And yeah we have all this stuff down here and nobody caller I select that down here if you environment. -- can go in here on this day low texture. Now in this folder made here for episode six I got this little scene right here which is to painted ladies and San Francisco right -- open that. And it's indeed environment. So it's gonna gonna it's gonna open that up any second now. And there it is going to bring up to reflect activity on this car CEO announced on the CD scene I just put up the respectively. At that much just a little lower so now I'm seeing a reflection. Of my seen. The environment the rounded on CNET and reflection and know what just because. Going to be a little more dramatic that's going here back to. Background layer between ourselves stark it's going to give them the -- and we have some nice colors chosen down there so this go in there and give them little. Foreground background. And just to when -- them jobs this and now we can really see our car better. That you so much nicer. I'm back to your car and I we have this little reflection in there. And does go back to a 3-D panel. Anything that I do do this car supposed to go in there and it's just say I want to rotate it. -- even rotated on this little -- right here he knows that the reflection is moving with it. Through that reflection reflection stays put but I'm seeing that reflection moving around in the car. It. I'm getting all these nice little shiny things going on there so and I have a reflection I also lit up the inside of the car. Now I mentioned something pretty architects and engineers. We can do a cross section of this car. Now does car inside is pretty much hollows and there's no engine and not mister -- model -- a lot more intricate and -- had engine or maybe it is. A model engine he once you cross section of what it looks like inside you've seen a lot of illustrations of these these cross sections -- where you see into the -- object where it's been cut -- you can see the workings inside and so -- A house -- kind of way certain Woolsey the C how to rooms a broken up and so on. Well we had that ability here as well you'll notice that if I come back to those shape over here. These are basic shapes like the scenes selected so it's got all the parts selected right down here. I have an -- call cross section -- that cross section I'm gonna turn that on. And read off the bat so they can see that. Half the car disappeared to get this big. Thing here I'm gonna move that. So that the other side phenom seen the inside a car I don't like that that claimed that this big. -- that came up that's actually do claim that -- it I picked up change -- manage capacity or the show and at all I don't need to see it. There it is now -- Indian side of the car. So. I can have on there and play neurologists I compare how the offset a distinct take of bringing and so that. More of the front car -- more of the card showing they would back. Cutting back more could've cut right into the piece of that -- they couldn't read into the causes of the chair -- second. He -- parts of the cardinal cutting away I got a little intersection. -- intersection which is showing me and it's changed color for that has changed at two aides say green. Nice bright green -- tonight it is the Green Line has shown me exactly where I'm cutting. How long cutting this and I haven't told the axis -- Mr. on the plane back on soon concede this to of the axis thing and has been -- passage just a little bit. Market today is it that so right there's my plane I can go there and felt that they that the that this way. So I can see how it's changing how these cards being cut of the back that way. Put it this way. And I'm -- across this way you can see how cutting into his car cutting away shapes and if I can see the interior. All the parts inside so it does is a very intricate model. Of."

" Of -- an engine or something that you designed you can not be immediately had any kind of way Ford. But it doesn't require a lot of special. Cutting in the 3-D program or lot of special illustration skills not -- just model that you create all these individual pieces. Whether it was in here or in the three program. You -- here and then you can do a quick cut away right to shearing off part of that model. See what's inside and even -- a little outlines -- you know exactly that this is being sheared right here. So as soon to be a bright reds and make it look like member -- terminated. Three or two when a bad guy appeared to be around it was just the the burned quite good and like bright red that the to singed the edge of my car where something just lays it just cut in half and so burning. And that imagination or crazy. But hate to see that the power of the three tool is getting better and better and more you understand how it works. The more your imagination start to wake up and say hey I could do that I would do this. Question a plane going there see what things do and then it -- from there and see how far your imagination of take you. I'm gonna sit there and play with the stuff the best -- is deceptive play. This something you like to see on the show email me your request separate at revision3.com. And -- to check out the phones at revision3.com. But it's that's forms. They can join discussions about the show. And maybe you."

" And influence a future show -- I think once again. David Rogers for this incredible little piece that you take another look at it."

" That's gonna just hang around for awhile here. And."

" I'm hoping that you put your -- we're back here because what I'm really seeing is as big green will be that big green -- Not nice. I keep looking over there because as a monitor over this I concede though there is -- law think I can see it over there. You can see it. I don't escape. You want to see your -- there send me your designs to -- at revision3.com. And your background should be 1280 by 720 pixels and JPEG. No the sizes but the formats because that way to fit it really should. And right so now. Popular something from this. Check out my new book. That's so new anymore but it is a book where it covers. All the stuff how I do what I do and acting go to my web site but on red dot com as -- a list of all the things that I'm gonna be doing the future -- become into the city near you. And so on. So check it out. For right now I'm gonna go back and hang on the dungeon and I hope to see you next week."

" Three."

" War."

" This episode pixel perfect you've brought do you buy and Netflix and godaddy.com. I'm just hanging around the dungeon here for a little while. And on today's show. We did last week didn't look a little further look at it lights and community that background by the way. This was sent to us by David Rogers to look at this thing. Pretty cool stuff up on the dungeon. So anyway it. Before we start I want to thank our sponsors. A stubborn thing thank you godaddy.com. Who makes it easy to customize your own virtual dedicated server -- is one of three popular plans or selector on an X. What windows server with all the plan options you need. Plus and to cope recuperated CNN screamed and when you check out you can register your domain name for seven dollars and 49 cents that is really a bargain. Some restrictions do apply see site for details get your piece of the Internet at godaddy.com. Also want to -- Netflix for sponsoring pixel perfect. Would Netflix you can rent over 90000. Titles online including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to your home. They now have over forty shipping centers so almost all deliveries happen in just one business day. The Netflix plans start from four dollars and 99 cents an as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership. Check it out at www. Netflix.com. -- slash. Pixel perfect and remember you do have that type in net WWW. When using this code. Now on to the show. That's really we talk about the PS3 we're talking about the lighting so today we're gonna take an object then we're going to light it and to a few other things to. -- you one other little cool feature that if you're an architect. You're gonna really like this -- an engineer. Trying out new products and so on. I'm gonna show you the work an actual model. Now I got an airplane mode screen tackle the -- that's gonna -- thrilled that really. Analysts say new layer from -- B file now what I'm going to bring up is a job and actual file that I you have."

" Downloaded from the web I did put -- from the web it's as the guy here it's a -- sun and earth X that is and here it comes and I just -- suicide -- free 3-D models into Google and came up with these sites and -- one here that cars. All kinds of cars and they're free. So you can download and some you have to pay but. Most cases their food and even if you have paid it to listen to for client and -- pay a few bucks 3-D model. I he's gonna going out and -- if you software to build these elaborate models to download from the web -- my little my little cough. -- comes into its own media player. Look at easy to add that to be there has all these different features to it. Some going to Canada so the modified as a guy a little bit. Backdoor but this little control appear that I think you'll remember you can go in there and make a little bigger if you want to you can move it around too heavy want to put it. Position where you wanna -- down -- keep it up there has got our images got bigger than -- right here this little box and to start. Pulling it up I'm making my car bigger they're -- also do from here. It might do and garden tool. Which is a whole load so I just go in there and -- like that mortgages but this little box here and do it I don't little rotation on it. I don't here and say how little data on this sex is right here. And it's just turn it out like that that looks good and that's is moving into position right where I wanted which is gonna be right there centers. NRC. All right so now. Right now it's very dark. His cards very dark of going to get -- three panel. We see that the in the lighting it has some of -- lights but right now they're very dark. So I could go in there and the increase. Some of the the view on these guys. It's going it is the third one then -- increased intensity a little bit. It's gonna just bring it up on the bit just a little at a time until I got exactly the I was on the pick up the card. Tarzan is that we know that light is right in there. -- that in light to I'm going there."

" And increased in strength -- it really brighten up the card it's been going on just a tad. Like that that looks good and consider like me which is. Gun control -- that that's controlling the top of a car that we -- these light sources. A pretty dark to begin with in my want to go under and lighten that up a little bit this -- will keep into the blues and which is lightened up some of those areas there now. You know two sports car like blue but in this particular case. I like to do with something else on live over here tonight materials and I see that right -- I got this body color May Day which is blue from -- click on that. And the change is to rid one red sports car the right off the bat equity that changed got a red sports car. Now want to give it some additional lights would go to my lights over here and we get a new spotlight. A spotlight. Now want to see my lights. I would assume highlights it was -- there are some return on so my spotlight right now is underneath there so and also bring that spotlight up. Great there. And that's twelve and Iran has been towards us a little more but K and it's twirled it around so that it's pointing at our car. Like so. Let's bring it down and there you see there's store and go right on top of the car. Just like that that looks good I am I want to give a little more fall so this just going to say this in the 75 on that. And we got this nice bright light. We might want to make a little -- now that's that's pretty good so now I'm going to do them and add one more light and another -- and at. Point -- That you remember last week we told about the point like being -- a lightbulb. Not inside the Cardoza. Glass windows but I don't really see the inside in his car someone picked my -- like that I just created. There's my point night. Yeah it is time to get my controls and find out where at a point that is their it is as at a point like. There it is right there so now I'm gonna take it and move it inside the car seat there it is inside is going through the windshield right to there. And it's inside the car now. Right inside and it's inside the car we don't need to see you guys anymore. Sudan's there we're gonna take that light inside antenna increased its strength to see this lighting up parts of the inside a car. Right inside there -- hollow and it's a kind of loaded up everything but now we can kind of see the lights the horrendous -- there there's out of the seats. -- we've got all the stuff going on this course don't look nice and bright. Now bits kind of Mac its doesn't really have much of on life to it so to -- going to do. We're gonna go over here to our our materials. And yeah we have all this stuff down here and nobody caller I select that down here if you environment. -- can go in here on this day low texture. Now in this folder made here for episode six I got this little scene right here which is to painted ladies and San Francisco right -- open that. And it's indeed environment. So it's gonna gonna it's gonna open that up any second now. And there it is going to bring up to reflect activity on this car CEO announced on the CD scene I just put up the respectively. At that much just a little lower so now I'm seeing a reflection. Of my seen. The environment the rounded on CNET and reflection and know what just because. Going to be a little more dramatic that's going here back to. Background layer between ourselves stark it's going to give them the -- and we have some nice colors chosen down there so this go in there and give them little. Foreground background. And just to when -- them jobs this and now we can really see our car better. That you so much nicer. I'm back to your car and I we have this little reflection in there. And does go back to a 3-D panel. Anything that I do do this car supposed to go in there and it's just say I want to rotate it. -- even rotated on this little -- right here he knows that the reflection is moving with it. Through that reflection reflection stays put but I'm seeing that reflection moving around in the car. It. I'm getting all these nice little shiny things going on there so and I have a reflection I also lit up the inside of the car. Now I mentioned something pretty architects and engineers. We can do a cross section of this car. Now does car inside is pretty much hollows and there's no engine and not mister -- model -- a lot more intricate and -- had engine or maybe it is. A model engine he once you cross section of what it looks like inside you've seen a lot of illustrations of these these cross sections -- where you see into the -- object where it's been cut -- you can see the workings inside and so -- A house -- kind of way certain Woolsey the C how to rooms a broken up and so on. Well we had that ability here as well you'll notice that if I come back to those shape over here. These are basic shapes like the scenes selected so it's got all the parts selected right down here. I have an -- call cross section -- that cross section I'm gonna turn that on. And read off the bat so they can see that. Half the car disappeared to get this big. Thing here I'm gonna move that. So that the other side phenom seen the inside a car I don't like that that claimed that this big. -- that came up that's actually do claim that -- it I picked up change -- manage capacity or the show and at all I don't need to see it. There it is now -- Indian side of the car. So. I can have on there and play neurologists I compare how the offset a distinct take of bringing and so that. More of the front car -- more of the card showing they would back. Cutting back more could've cut right into the piece of that -- they couldn't read into the causes of the chair -- second. He -- parts of the cardinal cutting away I got a little intersection. -- intersection which is showing me and it's changed color for that has changed at two aides say green. Nice bright green -- tonight it is the Green Line has shown me exactly where I'm cutting. How long cutting this and I haven't told the axis -- Mr. on the plane back on soon concede this to of the axis thing and has been -- passage just a little bit. Market today is it that so right there's my plane I can go there and felt that they that the that this way. So I can see how it's changing how these cards being cut of the back that way. Put it this way. And I'm -- across this way you can see how cutting into his car cutting away shapes and if I can see the interior. All the parts inside so it does is a very intricate model. Of."

" Of -- an engine or something that you designed you can not be immediately had any kind of way Ford. But it doesn't require a lot of special. Cutting in the 3-D program or lot of special illustration skills not -- just model that you create all these individual pieces. Whether it was in here or in the three program. You -- here and then you can do a quick cut away right to shearing off part of that model. See what's inside and even -- a little outlines -- you know exactly that this is being sheared right here. So as soon to be a bright reds and make it look like member -- terminated. Three or two when a bad guy appeared to be around it was just the the burned quite good and like bright red that the to singed the edge of my car where something just lays it just cut in half and so burning. And that imagination or crazy. But hate to see that the power of the three tool is getting better and better and more you understand how it works. The more your imagination start to wake up and say hey I could do that I would do this. Question a plane going there see what things do and then it -- from there and see how far your imagination of take you. I'm gonna sit there and play with the stuff the best -- is deceptive play. This something you like to see on the show email me your request separate at revision3.com. And -- to check out the phones at revision3.com. But it's that's forms. They can join discussions about the show. And maybe you."

" And influence a future show -- I think once again. David Rogers for this incredible little piece that you take another look at it."

" That's gonna just hang around for awhile here. And."

" I'm hoping that you put your -- we're back here because what I'm really seeing is as big green will be that big green -- Not nice. I keep looking over there because as a monitor over this I concede though there is -- law think I can see it over there. You can see it. I don't escape. You want to see your -- there send me your designs to -- at revision3.com. And your background should be 1280 by 720 pixels and JPEG. No the sizes but the formats because that way to fit it really should. And right so now. Popular something from this. Check out my new book. That's so new anymore but it is a book where it covers. All the stuff how I do what I do and acting go to my web site but on red dot com as -- a list of all the things that I'm gonna be doing the future -- become into the city near you. And so on. So check it out. For right now I'm gonna go back and hang on the dungeon and I hope to see you next week."

" Three."

chuckles

Started discussion: April 20, 2009 @ 9:15am GMT

Episode 122 - Lighting for 3D Models

Architects and engineers will love this episode about 3D lighting. Bert demonstrates how to add lighting to a 3D model car.


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Smeerkaas
7 months ago
Great episode. And great show. Even if it is starting to look more and more like a Photoshop promo. I especially liked the cross section demo. That was pretty cool.

Also great car. But there is no such thing as a Nissan NSX. It's a Honda. Or Acura. :D
Yvesken
7 months ago
I agree on the "Photoshop Promo" by Smeerkaas (smearcheese??) Good show though, great addition to previous episodes
whoisscott
7 months ago
promo? I'm not crazy about the 3d aspect just yet. Mostly because i'm on CS3, but also i don't really see a need for it. I liked the lighting example and cross section though. There is always something worth watching for.
BostonMarc
2 months ago

Very helpful video!

Did you get the model from 3DVIA.com?
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