3d max: interior rendering of colonial houses

Constructing the interior living room-dining room of the COLONIAL HOUSES found in MAURITIUS

To be able to do the interior, I have to isolate the roof and some part of the buildings in order to ease my task of shaping the interior of the living room. Moreover i have shaped a plane on the floor of the living room in order to be able to apply a suitable material to it.( wooden planks)

For the interior of the building i try to imitate the exact replica of the living room of an ancient colonial house. Thus in ancient colonial house there are many decorative element which are placed inside a building to enhance the interior. Therefore, I have put decorative element around each door of the inside the living room.

For the furniture such as the sofa and the carpet, I had to search for traditional furniture and fortunately i was lucky enough that these traditional furniture exists in 3D Archive. therefore i download it and try to search for appropriate material on google images and using the bitmap material function i allocate the specific material to the furniture.

Moreover to complete the sofa set, I have copy , paste the downloaded sofa and rotate them around a wooden table to form a complete set.

To show my knowledge about the use of applying illumination to an object, i have downloaded a lamp from 3D Archive and apply a fluorescent yellow glow to it . Also since the interior of a colonial house is usually painted white i decided to place a picture on the wall which i downloaded , modify and assigned material to it.

Willingly to know how the small part of the living room will look like, i had placed a camera eye-leveled and press F10 to render the small part, According to my perception, it look exactly the same as an interior of a living room of a Mauritian colonial house.

To complete the living room com dining room I have downloaded a table,a chair and some equipments from the 3D archive and try to shaped the complete dining table by allocating specific material to the furniture and equipment downloaded. To make the equipment mo real i try to play with the reflection of the glass ripple of the water in the glass. Moreover i had to copy and rotate some chairs and placed it round the table.After i scaled and moved the whole dining table set into the living room.

After this i have added the curtains and allocate material to it to make the living room more lively.

To have a final view of how the living try to render the image. Now the time for render Have increased due to the use of many downloaded furniture making it bulky.

After placing my camera and modifying some of its lens, this is the final render of my living room. which i have save it before the computer crashes again.

Top View of the final living room by playing with the camera

After my first render of the interior of the building, i choose to render one of the bedroom of the colonial house.The bed room is found next to the living room as shown in the above picture I have allocate the flooring of the bedroom before adding any structure.

I have applied colour on some part of the wall to make the bedroom more likely similar to that of a colonial house found in mauritus

Then i had the difficult tasks of searching for a traditional bed which look similar of that in British ruling period and I downloaded a bed and made some changes to it and scale it to look like traditional king size bed.

I have to search for material and allocate specific material and render it to know how the latter will look like

Similarly i downloaded a vase, some flower and a small table, Tries to make them look nice together.

After this allocate specific material to each petals, leaves , vase and table and render to know how it looks like.Of course this requires many trial before coming to the final results

Before adding any furniture, inside the room i Had to put some decorative element around the door to give it the traditional outlook which i want.

One by one furniture, is added to the bedroom to enhace the traditional bedroom of the colonial houses.Mostly all furniture like cupboard and tables are allocated with wood since at that time woods were greatly used as material for furniture making.

Some sofas are then downloaded and added to the bedroom to replicate the exact space usage of the building.

After completed the bedroom also i prefer to back up my file before rendering before it crash

After back up i position my camera , play with its modifier and render the image and this is what i got.
However the rendering was of poor qualities and decide to render it mental ray.