Background Buildings Library Vol.2

Description

The Background Building library volume 2 comprises a further 13 parametric tower style office, mixed use, and residential buildings plus an all- in-one preset for quickly creating grid-like layouts.

The collection has been designed to provide artists with a selection of high-quality assets that can be used to flesh out scenes in the mid to background - fast. Buildings are adaptable by allowing the artist to create the footprint using a simple spline. Height is adjustable by number of floors and there are options for material variations, randomisation, interior lights and many more parameters to customise each style

Requires

• 3ds Max 2013 or above
• RailClone Pro (4.3 or above recommended)

Compatible with 

• V-Ray
• Corona
• Arnold

Troubleshooting / Tips

• Arnold Materials do not support the Night Light option

• For Arnold to work with many of 3ds Max’s built-in and 3rd party maps and materials including RailClone Colour, it is necessary to enable Legacy 3ds Max Map Support from the settings.
  

• If the building appears to be inside-out. Select the base spline from the scene, right-click and select Reverse

• Some features such as Material variations are incompatible with Corona renderer if Instancing is enabled. To use these features with Corona disable the Instancing engine from the Display.
  
  

Using individual Buildings

The library is designed so that users do not need to open the graph editor. All the necessary controls are exposed in the Base Objects and Parameters rollouts.

To create a building:

1. Draw a spline. Use a closed spline for a complete building, or an open spline if you only require a facade (like a film set).

   When you are creating splines, be aware of the vertex type. Corner vertices should be used to create hard corners, Smooth and Bezier Corners can be used to create curved buildings. The latter two vertex types will not generate corner geometry.

   

2. Create a new RailClone Object and open the Library. Select one of the single building presets and click Import Selected.

3. Go to the Base Objects rollout and select Spline from the list. Go to the Properties and assign the splines selected in the first step.

     

4. To change the building’s properties, go to the Parameters rollout where you’ll find the editable properties for each asset.,Several properties are common to all buildings, while some are unique. You can see a list of the parameters for each building below.

Using the AIO preset

In addition to 13 fully parameteric individual towers, the collection also includes an all-in-one preset that’s designed to quickly and efficiently fill large areas. To use it.

1. Create a new RailClone object and open the Library Browser. Select and load the All-In-One
   
   

2. To edit the object, all the settings can be found in the Parameters and Base Objects
   

3. The most important settings are the X and Y size parameters which allow you to specify the grid size of the buildings  
   
   It’s also possible to use a spline for the X axis should you need a layout that follows a straight or curved path.

4. Information about the preset'ss many other parameters are shown later in this document.       

Materials

Stucco

Tiles

Bricks & Concrete

Metals

Paints

Plastics

Glass

Building Parameters

Our buildings have a series of parameters that can be modified, with new shapes and textures , creating new appearances quickly and easily.

Common parameters:

These parameters are common to all buildings, defining general characteristics, geometry and appearance.

Stories: Allows you to set the number of floors to adjust the height of the building.

Stories variation: Adds positive or negative variation to Stories parameter. Really useful when you are building multiple buildings in the same scene.

Main Material: Change the appearance of the main facade choosing one of the 52 available materials.

Frames Material: Modify the appearance materials for the glazing framework.

Glass Material: Choose from 6 amazing materials for the main facade’s glazing.

Inside Light: Allows you to turn  on/off lights inside the building. The lights are  supported only in Vray CPU ( not GPU) and Corona.

Limit Material ID: Disables limit and style is applied on all materials ID.

Specific parameters

Specific parameters add features to some of the buildings, giving them a unique appearance.

Los Angeles Specific parameters

Melbourne Specific parameters.

Sydney Specific parameters.

All-In-One Preset