BBSC 303 Digital Craft

Tutorials to be completed for introductory exercise

CAD Introductory Tutorials

• AutoCAD 2008 (Architectural Desktop)
• NB: insertion of some extra steps for AutoCAD (steps 49-):link here
• Revit 2008 (Parts 4-6 and 8-10 and don't set accurender materials)
• Archicad 11 (complete only to end of Page 33 - to end of round stair on page 35 if you have time)

Global Illumination Introductory Tutorials

• Lightstudio - basic tutorial
• Lightstudio - advanced tutorial
• 3DS Max tutorial - using mentalray for lighting
• Supplementary assistance:
• Using Viz to render Revit models
• Rendering with Revit models in LightStudio (a Google Groups note from March! Expand txt at end by Nick Smith)
• Using Rayfront to render ArchiCAD models
• Photorealistic and physically based rendering - NOTES
• Justin's The Light Flow Meter presentation (in Internet Explorer format) --ALSO: right click HERE and <save as> to download .3ds light flow meter file for import to Viz

Web Page Introductory Tutorial

• Your first web page introductory tutorial
• Inserting 3D files into a web page
• Charlotte's Dreamweaver Templates Tutorial

 

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New Mental Ray Guides

• Interior Scenes - Materials
  
• Interior Scenes - Using Daylight
  
• Interior Scenes - Using Artifical Lights
  
  
• Exterior Scenes - Materials
  
• Exterior Scenes - Using Daylight

Other useful tutorials / information

• An Internet Viz 4 'How To' site at CADDigest
• Another collection of links to free and commercial tutorial sites
• A daylit interior scene (including excellent water reflections!)
• Alex Casanova's tutorials include some interesting tips and tricks for radiosity

• RealViz - Stitcher tutorial (Stitcher would allow you to bring in a set of images generated by Rayfront and export a QTVR panorama)
• Eon Raptor tutorial (Export a Viz or Max file in full rendered mode to a web page format where the web page viewer can walk around inside your building...)

For the curious:

• Revit (Tutorial from 2002 when we first encountered Revit - The same curved form Gehry object as for the AutoCAD tutorial - Not in 2003/4)

For the curious:

• Lightscape (2002) (the original architectural radiosity renderer and still an elegant tool)
• Finding material files: Use Internet Explorer to load CADimagesindex.htm from the P:\ drive.
• Comparing Rendering techniques

CAD Extras

• ZOOM GDL - ArchiCAD solid modeller
• Comparing CAD program commands
• Microstation Modeler tutorial (from past years)
• Converting files to render format
• Import AutoCAD Solids into Archicad
• 3D modelling Competition

Global Illumination (with Light Studio/Radiance) Tutorials

• Adding Lights in Rayfront (one of the many interfaces to Radiance - Like Light Studio)
• Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Standard Format for Luminaire (Light Fittings) Description
• Common Lamp Values for Physical modelling of light fittings / luminaires
• Dave Jarvis' Computer Monitor for Lighting Glare Studies (Zip File)
• Jake's guide to using Radiance with Light Studio files
• The Rayfront (GUI for Radiance) Help Files
• List of the basic RADIANCE (PC) Programs
• Setting Radiance Rendering Options - an insight into the Rayfront / Light Studio 'settings'
• Radiance Error Message "addobject" - a problem with v. complex files in the past
• Radiance Default settings
• Sample Radiance materials and their Reasonable Values (insight into Light Studio materials)
• Radiance CAL files and their function in defining materials (more about LS materials/textures)
• Running Radiance Batch files
• Background to Radiance
• Greg Ward-Larson's SIGGRAPH '94 paper The Radiance Lighting Simulation and Rendering System
• Making Radiance's Global Illumination User-Friendly - an explanation of the settings 'Low', 'Medium' and 'High'
• Contents list for book Rendering with Radiance
• Determining your monitor gamma
• Setting your monitor gamma
• Radiance Scene Description Language

• Rendering with Radiance (extract from the Radiance book)
• List of Radiance Objects in Library 1
• List of Radiance Objects in Library 2
• Using Conrad to map materials in Radiance (Another GUI that looked promising in the late 1990's)
• Raphael Compagnon's Radiance and Architecture tutorial (best explanation of the theory)

Global Illumination General Info

• What is Radiosity (the photon mapping technique used by Lightscape)
• IES - Luminaire Files in Viz
• Global illumination examples
• Still the best Lightscape troubleshooting page
• The Cornell Box
• Photon Tracing
• John Mardaljevic's Radiance Validation
• Discreet's why Viz not Lightscape blurb
• SIGGRAPH '98 Tutorial on Daylight and Radiance - R Shakespeare (see tutorial discussion of materials)

• Computer Graphics Rendering - Bump/Displacement/Ambient Maps - Transparency Maps
• Light and Colour (notes from Lightscape Help Files)

Web Page Tutorials/ideas

• Simple guide from the past to creating DWF files: e-drawings

Web Page Resources

• AutoDESK tutorial on inserting e-drawings into web pages
• Demo collaboration web page
• HTML Primer
• Structure
• Doing Frames
• One of many interesting virtual house web sites
• Archimages in Wellington - graduates from the VUW programme
• Expanding the Approaches to User Experience
• An alternate view on usability The persistence of Usability Myths
• And ... a good example of programming in Flash
  

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Structure of HTML - Web Design Group	Sharing CAD drawings using the web
Style guide for the web - Web Design Group
Using frames in web pages
Beginner's guide to HTML- language of the web	American Institute of Architects CAD Layering
	CAD standards - the nitty gritty details
	Organising an office manual for CAD

And these links are to places on the web which maintain excellent information on web page design and animation. These links are to places outside the school. It would be wise to navigate to them with graphics off and then to turn graphics on when you find the text you want, if you are concerned about low cost and efficient web navigation.

Web Monkey maintained by Wired Magazine	Javascript

 

Some tutorials from Jeremy Birn's book: Digital Lighting and rendering :

• - Fixing Lighting Irregulaties in Self-Tiling Maps
• - Photoshop Luminance-Equalization Tutorial
• - Three-point lighting for 3D renderings
• - Render passes, layers and 3D compositing
• - Lighting in layers
• - A Look At Caustics - reflection, refraction etc

Online CAD Resources

• School Online Tutorials
• AutoCAD www.autodesk.com
• ArchiCAD www.graphisoft.hu
• Microstation www.bentley.com
• Lightscape www.lightscape.com
• Radiance radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/
• 3DStudio Max www.ktx.com
• Render City www.rendercity.com/rendering/render.html
• Best book I have read on theme of "digital lighting and rendering" www.3drender.com
• Theatre Lighting the key light
• Visual Simulation Publications
• Renderman
• Internet Ray Tracing Competition
• ArchiCAD Contest
• Design Workshop Pro CAD program with pictures from integrated Radiance Exporter
• Interview with Arnold Gallardo, Visual COntent Creator CGarchitect.com
• Lighting simulation for architectural design - (SoA, Turin) Anna Pellegrino, Luce Caneparo

Other Web Page Resources

• Improved VUW simple guide to creating e-drawings
• AutoDESK tutorial on inserting e-drawings into web pages
• Demo collaboration web page
• Javascript page animation
• Web Page Style Guide
• Image maps
• General javascript tutorial
• Javascript ideas
• Javascript demo