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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

Working with the render window


If, instead of using a progressive render with the previewer, you want a direct render, you can use the regular render window, accessible by pressing F9 on your keyboard or navigating to Render | Render in the top menu.

The render window is a more complete tool for rendering due to its internal methods of post-processing and statistics. The following screenshot gives a general overview of what this window looks like:

Basically, the render window is divided into many sections. First is the Final Image panel, where you can see the process of rendering, and where the final image will be displayed for you to save. The right part is full of information about the image and is divided into three tabs.

The first tab is Image Processing. Under this area, there will be many options available to process the image once it is completed. There are a lot of advanced options too, but we will focus only on the following discussed ones.

Input white level and tone mapping

Under the...