[img][/img] I planed to reside at least 3 books before I do this project. But the time was too limited. So I just go through 3 books. One is about VUE8, the second is plug-ins of 3ds max, the last was about Vray rendering. Because there is no time, many operations I can't go through on my computer. Even I forget a lot of the content of these books. What a stupid method of learning.
The picture above is a overview of the project. The modeling is done, and I messed up the lighting, I tried to redo it last night, but I was too sleepy.....so.....
This is the back of the house. there should have a poor/some water near the balcony. I tried in VUE 8, it created a OCEANION for me. ---Takes years for rendering.
One of pitfalls is when it adopted by 3ds max, it will take 2 hours to render my scene. Which means 5 rendering, no time for sleep. And believe me, these trees are not cheap either. It got a high resolution image for material.