Faking interior renderings...

[VCRUPI]

Hi all... I have seen this techinque done for exterior renderings of residential homes

where you can see the inside of some rooms, as though they are modeled and lit from inside the house.

As I looked more closely to these details, I found that they are simply an image/rendering of a room interior

placed behind the windows to create the illusion of depth.

I must say it really works and clients seems to love it. How would I go upon doing this technique.

I understand the setup of how to do this technique... i guess my real question is "Is there anywhere I can find/purchase interior renderings/scenes so that I can create this effect in my renderings?"

Any help in to this topic is greatly appreciated.

[Hazdaz]

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Any examples you can show us?

[NOOXY]

i've never thougth about doing that...that's not a bad technique..anyway i guessing it's simple mapping or using allpha tags to place images in in post effects using photoshop...

 

i think it all comes down to your artistic skills..

 

and besides u can get tons and tons of interior views from the internet..which i assume is safe to use or maybe not???

[Tim Saunders]

I'm not a fan of the technique, but I have heard of people placing a plane behind the window and making a material with the image of an interior and asigning that material to the plane. As far as where to fing good images, just google living room interior images or whatever your looking for.

[Koper]

Michiel Quist showed a technique at Imagina on how to create interiors for exterior animations. He used half of a panoramic image and placed it onto half a torus, wich is 'normaled', for the plane just inside the window. I made quick illustrations of that. Hope it helps. And thax to M.Quist

[quizzy]

Yep the panoramic backdrop (as I like to call it) will do the trick much nicer than ordinary planes with textures.. (Koper, nice to see that you paid attention )

 

Another good way is to put a box with flipped faces behind the window, and put a cubic map onto that...or shrink wrap whatever is your favorite

 

If you would like to use planes for this, be sure to get images that are taken with a larger angle camera...

 

You dont really need to look for those panoramic images or cube map images, just render them yourself.. if your renderer supports all this..

 

Koper, remember to curve your "torus" the way the lens of the camera "curves"