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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
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Setting up lighting for a simple interior scene

Christopher Tyler Jul, 16th 2012 6 Comments
This materials and lighting tutorial shows how to approach the lighting setup for an interior type of scene. It uses a single spot light and a white lightdome for lighting and shows how to evaluate the contribution of each to the final diffuse lighting. It also sets up a couple of materials which are important to the scene.
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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
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Modeling an architectural staircase element

Christopher Tyler Jul, 13th 2012 1 Comment
This modeling tutorial demonstrates how to use named custom grids to model symmetrical elements. It also shows how to work with instances that have pesky nested nodes. The use of the Replace selected function is also covered.
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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
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Modeling an architectural lighting element

Christopher Tyler Jul, 11th 2012 3 Comments
This modeling tutorial shows how to model an architectural lighting element. It's a deceptively simple looking object. This tutorials shows various ways of dealing with angled geometry in addition to focusing on various geometry problems that can arise
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