Vray Essentials

Corona Renderer for Interior Architects - Training Course

Learn Corona Renderer at ETC Lebanon. Master realistic rendering techniques for interior and exterior scenes using 3D Studio Max and the Corona plugin with expert hands-on training.

Duration: 16 hours

Teaching Methodology: Hands on

Course Schedule: Schedule

Fees $350

Course Mode: Blended (Face-to-face or online via Zoom)



DESCRIPTION

This Corona course teaches you how to render interior and exterior scenes. You will be quickly producing high-quality rendered images.

OBJECTIVES

In this course, students learn how to use 3D Studio Max and the Corona plug-in to create realistic high-quality interior scenes.

Topics Covered:
Setup
The Workflow
Render Settings
Camera
Lighting
The Corona Frame Buffer
Materials
UV Mapping
Volume Material
Corona Proxy
Rendering Interior Scenes

AUDIENCE

Architects, interior designers, decorators, graphic designers, artists, animators, TV graphic designers, art directors, and anyone interested in creating 3D presentations.

PREREQUISITES

3DS Max 1 for Architects and Interior Designers and Adobe Photoshop

Corona Renderer Essentials 01
Corona Renderer Essentials 02
Corona Renderer Essentials 03
Corona Renderer Essentials 04

COURSE CONTENTS

01 - Introduction to Corona

  • About the Corona Renderer
  • Chaos Corona Feature List
  • Making Corona the render engine,
  • Environment
  • Scene Tab
  • Corona Interactive
  • The Corona VFB
  • Saving as PNG Vs. TIFF
  • Corona Light: Sphere, Light Options
  • The Corona Tool Bar
  • The Corona Camera
  • Tone Mapping, Photographic Exposure
  • The Corona Lister
  • The Corona Material Library
  • UVW Map, Planar Length and Width 1x1
  • Usefull sites: textures.com
  • Download Lesson 01
Introduction to V-Ray

02 - The Basics

  • Enable Gamma 2.2
  • Making Corona the Render Engine
  • Gradient Ramp for Environment
  • Render Setup: Area to Render
  • Output Size
  • File Output, TIFF 16bits
  • Unhide All, Render
  • Corona Light
  • Corona Help
  • The System Tab
  • Render Stamp
  • Denoising mode: High Quality, Render, Enable in VFB
  • Material: CoronaPhysicalMtl
  • Presets
  • Roughness, Color, IOR, Metalness
  • Mirror Material: Metal Material, Level 1, Roughness 0, Color White
  • Corona Help - Physical Material
  • Using 3DS Max Material with Corona Renderer
  • Converting the 3DS Max Material to Corona Physical Material
  • The Performance Tab, See Help
  • Download Lesson 02
The Basics

03 - Rendering an Interior Scene

Rendering an Airport Scene and Introduction to HDRI

05 - Rendering an Exterior Scene - Bridge

  • Environment
  • Sky
  • Corona Sun
  • Help on the Corona Sun
  • Using the Cosmos Browser
  • Using the Material Library
  • Replacing the HDRI with the Corona Sky
  • Bridge Material
  • Scene Environment Overrides
  • Download Lesson 05
Rendering an Exterior Scene:  Villa

06 - Using Various Lights with Corona

Rendering an Interior Scene

07 - Working with Corona Materials and Maps

Rendering an Exterior Scene:  Villa

08 - Render Elements

  • Why Render Elements
  • Render Elements One By One
  • Beauty and Alpha
  • Reflact and Refract
  • LightSelect, Zdepth, Shadows
  • Zdepth Image to Adobe Photoshop Alpha Channel
  • Photoshop Filter: Blur: Lens Blur
  • LightMix
  • Download Lesson 08
Rendering an Interior Scene

09 - Corona Proxies

  • Why Using Proxies
  • Saving Objects as Proxies
  • Loading Proxies
Using Various Lights with V-Ray

10 - Rendering a Living Room

  • Materials
  • Lighting
  • Camera
  • Render Elements
  • Rendering
Using Files from Libraries

11 - Rendering a Dining Room

  • Materials
  • Lighting
  • Camera
  • Render Elements
  • Rendering
Learning by Examples

12 - Rendering a Master Bedroom

  • Materials
  • Lighting
  • Camera
  • Render Elements
  • Rendering
V-Ray Material

13 - Rendering a Conference Room

  • Materials
  • Lighting
  • Camera
  • Render Elements
  • Rendering
VRay Physical Camera, VRay Objects, Batch Rendering

14 - Rendering a Lobby

  • Materials
  • Lighting
  • Camera
  • Render Elements
  • Rendering
Revit to 3DS Max to VRay