Staircase

I had to make this for computer graphics for university. We were supposed to use both AutoCAD and 3ds max to do it, but since I don't know shit about AutoCAD (despite that they tried to teach it to us) and I hate it, I made it in max only.

THE CONCEPT IS NOT MINE. We had to pick an already existing staircase and model it. I chose this one: http://www.dnastair.co.uk/images/spi...les-nest02.jpg

The model may look daunting, but it's actually very, very basic modeling and a lot of arraying. Nothing too fancy or something. Rendered with maxwell render with hdri environment lighting.

Basic or not, it looks pretty slick.

That last render bugs me though, i think theres a bit too much grain in there and the way the grain is placed doesnt really vibe for me.

It's not like I place the grain where I want. And it's due to the short render time. I rendered these in the night before I had to hand them in, so my time was very limited. In fact this last grainy one was rendered in the morning, right before I left for uni.

omg0x a floating staircase! @_@
Looks great IMO, at first I thought it was a professional photo of stairs. Noticed it was a model after looking at link :P
Nice work, even as basic as you say it is, I could never model like that... mainly because I've never modelled before ;]

How long do these renders take?

Did you actually make a texture for it? Or does the render do that too with settings?

there's no textures, just materials.

One of the renders took 20min (I think the middle one), another around 5 hours (first one) and last one around 1 hour I think.

So uh, what did you do those 5 hours?

5 hours?!

Very nice though, but I have to ask, what's the polycount?

sleep. I let it render over night.

The polycount is highly irrelevant, I don't even know it and I'm too lazy to open the file and find out.

I'd like this staircase for my house.

Since you are to be an architect shouldn't you use AutoCAD all the time? I mean max is for entertainment, cad and solidedge and such are for construction.

I must say, that is an interesting question.

yeah but I hate AutoCAD. It's so retarded, everything I do with autocad I can do in max 3 times as fast. And just as accurate.

But you will be forced to use it, say goodbye to polygon modeling and hello to solid modeling. We had an AutoCAD course at high school and I hated it. I hate all the exact numbers, toleraces, Symmetry lines and whatever. Never used the 3d version though, only looked at it for one lession. Stupid solid modeling.

AutoCAD is not retarded, it's just primitive. Oh well, maybe a little retared