ottoatom Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Hello all, I have to do a commercial presentation of some floor plans of the office building I am working with, and I would like to know if someone here has some experience with that kind of work.. Is there some specific application to do that, or do you do it on photoshop? Some tutorials would also be nice... Thank you all for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Smith Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 here's an example...no special software though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFK_Matrix Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Well do you want just 2D floor plans or do they have to have the 3D look? I used to do loads of 2D colored floor plans for the housing company I worked for. I used both AutoCAD and Adobe Illustrator. Basically we had the plans in 2d in AutoCAD and then went round them with polylines to fill in/highlight what we wanted and then put these into Illustrator as it understand AutoCAD layers. Another program to look at is Autodesk's Impression, although I think you need to have AutoCAD for it. And people do just use Photoshop, it all depends how proficient you are with Photoshop I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ottoatom Posted January 9, 2008 Author Share Posted January 9, 2008 Brian Smith: Nice 3d, but too elaborated for what I had in mind.. Maybe for our other housing projects. I wanted a more professional look and also in 2D not 3D. AFK_Matrix: Yeah I had in mind 2d plans, not 3d like Brian shown us. I dont know how to use illustrator that much, I am better with photoshop. Ok, I thought that there were maybe some apps that had all those textures and blocks ready for insertion. I will take a look at that autodesk's impression, we never know. Oh, if you know a good tutorial or a site where we can find raster (images) furniture blocks I would also apreciate. Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jophus14 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Brian Smith: Is that scene lit with just GI? It looks nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFK_Matrix Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Hi mate, If you can use Photoshop then Illustrator will be very easy to pickup, I was pretty good with it after a day of using it. You will need AutoCAD for the way I used to do mine but you maybe able to do it all in photoshop I don't know. To give you and idea of the plans I used to create go here: http://www.croudacehomes.co.uk/viewhouse.php?houseid=202 click on the Launch Floor Plan View It is only black but you could obviously use colour. As for images of furniture etc sorry I don't know any site but google is your friend lol. All of the furniture on those plans was done in AutoCAD and thus I could copy the blocks around etc. Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ottoatom Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 AFK_Matrix: I need to do plans more like those ones: http://www.epul.pt/pentrecampos/?id_categoria=9 So I would need to put floor textures and photographic blocks.. Anyway, from what I see, I will to do it on photoshop.. eheh I hoped there would be some kind of application that would make it easy for me.. guess not. Thanks anyway guys! As always, here is where I get my answers Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chow choppe Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 here's an example...no special software though. Hi brian Can u tell us what kind of lighting setup did u use for this 3d floor plan what was the studio set up Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IC Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I do 2d plans in 3d. Weird as it sounds. I just model the floor plan add furniture then render using an orthographic camera. I find I have a lot of control over the lighting and materials this way and it renders really quickly at whatever resolution you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiquito Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I use Autocad, print a pdf file, and import it in photoshop, I copy that pdf layer, add a layer behind it in white, and syart coloring from there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Smith Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Brian Smith: Is that scene lit with just GI? It looks nice. One of our ladies here did this, so i will ask her to comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaz Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 This was done with Autodesk's Impression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redzuan3828 Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 This is what I have done using Autocad and Photoshop. asking me if this is what you are looking for? It took 1/2 day to colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padhia Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Hi brian Can u tell us what kind of lighting setup did u use for this 3d floor plan what was the studio set up Thanks hello, sorry it took a while to respond. we used a dome light and then some small photometric lights in the sconces, and some vray lights under the cabinets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC-UK Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Sorry to butt in on this thread so late but Redzuan; do you mind shedding some light on your Photoshop process to get your floorplans looking so good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jophus14 Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I'm not sure if this is how Redzuan does it, but it can be done by bringing in the original drawing in Photoshop. Create layers, trace the area where the textures need to be placed and apply your textures to that area. After all of your textures are applied, copy the original drawing layer, drag it to the top of the layer stack and change the layer type to Overlay. This is bring all of your black lines and text on top of the textures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC-UK Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Thanks Joseph, I'll have a play. I've never thought about that last step. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFK_Matrix Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 He may also use some masking in Photoshop to achieve those results. When I learnt about masking on Photoshop it was a blessing. You can do a lot of very useful things like laying a tree over your rendered picture and using the masking tool to make it look like parts of the tree are behind a house or car etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sindala Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 We do loads of these, i rendered out top views of a lot of our 3d furniture collection and now we put it all together in PS. quite a lot of preperation, but i think it's worth the effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC-UK Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Sindala, wow - they're really impressive:) @ AFK Matrix - I'm beginning to realise just how inadequate my PS skills are. I've a lot to learn so I've bought myself a copy of Scott Onstott's 'enhancing CAD drawings with photoshop'. Also eagerly awaiting the publication of 'Photoshop for architectural rendering' by Horstt Sondermann. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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