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Building 3D Models with modo 701

By : Juan Jiménez García
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Building 3D Models with modo 701

By: Juan Jiménez García

Overview of this book

<p>Computer generated graphics (CGI) are part of the design market. CGI helps digital designers from many industries to have a clear representation of their products before they are produced. To name a few, interior designers, architectural studios, and furniture designers can implement CGI images into their workflow, saving them time and money.</p> <p>"Building 3D Models with modo 701" will introduce you to the world of next generation 3D content creation in a practical manner. This will not be a software manual, but a real-world guide that will skip the unnecessary details and focus on what's needed to complete a commission from a client. It will get you the best results in minimum time.</p> <p>In this book you will learn the entire process, from a preliminary design to the final art. All the stages are covered. You will be guided through modeling, creating materials, placing lights, optimizing your render, and showing it to your customer in an efficient way.</p> <p>You will learn how to quickly generate shapes and recreate real-world materials present in most of scenes: wood, metals, glass; along with working with textures and learning how to apply them convincingly. Create the mood of your scene by using lights, place the camera like a photographer would do to get that nice shot, and make a good quality realistic render and show it to your client with that extra punch of production that every pro should know.</p> <p>"Building 3D Models with modo 701" is not a user manual, but a step-by-step walkthrough of the real world of a 3D artist.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Building 3D Models with modo 701
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Types of light


Now that you know the basic operations you can do with the lights and how to handle them, let's take a look at the different kinds of lights you can work with. This will not be an in-depth guide of each type, but a recommended list of what types of lights will be more useful to you in order to work in a real scene, along with some recommendations about when and how to use each of them.

Spot Light

A Spot Light works as a torch, meaning the light coming from it travels in the shape of a cone. This kind of light will light everything that comes inside the cone, leaving the rest unlit.

It's got its own properties panel—as with every item in modo—where you can tweak various aspects. The panel for Spot Light looks like the following screenshot:

There are plenty of options, but for a beginner, you should look at the following basic settings:

  • Radiant Intensity: This is the power of the light source. The greater the intensity, the more powerful will be the light.

  • Cone Angle: This controls...