AutoCAD® 2010 and AutoCAD LT® 2010: No Experience Required

Chapter 17. Rendering and Materials

• Using the Loft tool

• Creating cameras to reproduce views

• Creating a lighting scheme

• Enabling and controlling shadow effects

• Choosing the background

• Assigning materials to surfaces

• Adjust mapping and tiling

• Saving setup views and lights as restorable scenes

• Rendering and outputting to a file

After developing a 3D model, you'll usually want to apply materials and render it to get a better feel for the substance of the project and for a clearer presentation tool for the clients.

In this chapter, I'll give you a quick tour of some of these rendering steps as you set up a view of the cabin and render it. Developing a full rendering takes time and patience, but touching on a few of the many steps involved will give you a feel ...