3DS Max LIVE Professional Course with V-Ray & Lumion

Ms. Diksha Kataria is a Senior Interior Designer with 6+ years of industry experience. She has completed 500+ projects and trained 35,000+ students with practical, industry-focused knowledge. Her expertise in space planning, design execution, and modern interiors makes her a trusted mentor for aspiring interior designers.

Professional Diploma in 3DS Max Live Course – Syllabus

• Complete 3DS Max from basics to advanced level
• Live V-Ray training for professional rendering
• Recorded Corona Renderer and Lumion modules
• Unlimited components for interior and exterior projects
• Complete exterior modeling project
• 2 complete interior modeling projects
• Lifetime software support from PTS CAD EXPERT
• Free workshop on latest industry updates
• Lifetime recorded video access
• 3DS Max digital books and study material
• Industrial updates and professional workflow guidance
• Software installation support through video
• Authentic course certification

Detailed Course Topics

• Course overview and professional workflow
• Scope of 3DS Max in interior, exterior, architecture, and visualization
• 3DS Max user interface introduction
• Workspace, toolbar, command panel, viewport, timeline, and scene explorer
• Unit setup, preferences, and file management
• Basic object creation and object selection methods
• Move, rotate, scale, clone, copy, instance, and reference
• Hide, freeze, isolate, group, and ungroup objects
• Navigation tools and viewport controls
• Important 3DS Max shortcuts for fast workflow
• Standard primitives: box, sphere, cylinder, cone, torus, plane, tube, pyramid
• Extended primitives: chamfer box, chamfer cylinder, capsule, oil tank, spindle, L-Ext, C-Ext
• Splines and 2D shape creation
• Line, rectangle, circle, arc, ellipse, donut, star, and text tools
• Editable spline editing
• Vertex, segment, and spline-level editing
• Weld, attach, detach, trim, extend, refine, outline, fillet, and chamfer tools
• Editable poly modeling
• Vertex, edge, border, polygon, and element-level editing
• Extrude, bevel, inset, bridge, connect, cut, slice, chamfer, and weld tools
• Clean topology and professional modeling workflow
• Important modifiers in 3DS Max
• Bend, taper, twist, stretch, shell, symmetry, mirror, smooth, and TurboSmooth
• Chamfer, cap holes, slice, push, noise, wave, and ripple
• Array, Boolean, ProBoolean, lathe, lattice, melt, morpher, and affect region
• FFD 2x2x2, FFD 3x3x3, FFD 4x4x4, FFD box, and FFD cylinder
• Path deform, patch deform, conform, linked XForm, subdivide, spherify, and retopology
• UVW Map, Unwrap UVW, UVW XForm, and material modifier
• Cloth, displace, data channel, and FloorGenerator
• Scripts and productivity tools
• Script installation and usage
• Hands-on object modeling practice
• Furniture, wall panels, doors, windows, ceilings, railings, gates, and decorative elements
• Exterior modeling workflow
• Plan import, scaling, and alignment
• Wall creation, floor creation, ceiling creation, and slab modeling
• Door and window openings
• Facade modeling and elevation detailing
• Balcony, staircase, railing, terrace, and boundary wall modeling
• Site preparation, landscape, road, pathway, and exterior flooring
• Complete exterior model development
• Interior modeling workflow
• Interior plan import and unit setup
• Basic room modeling
• Wall, floor, ceiling, door, and window creation
• False ceiling design
• TV unit design
• Wall panel designing
• Furniture placement and décor arrangement
• Flooring pattern design
• Lighting planning for interior scenes
• 2 complete interior model projects
• Model import from external websites
• Cleaning, scaling, and placing imported models
• Managing heavy models and components
• Component library creation for interior and exterior
• Basics of V-Ray renderer
• V-Ray toolbar and asset editor overview
• CPU and GPU rendering workflow
• Draft render and final render workflow
• Natural sunlight creation for interior and exterior
• V-Ray Sun and V-Ray Sky setup
• Artificial lighting setup
• V-Ray Plane Light, Sphere Light, Disc Light, Mesh Light, Dome Light, Ambient Light, and IES Light
• Cove lighting, ceiling lights, wall lights, warm lights, and cool lights
• PBR material workflow
• Diffuse, reflection, refraction, roughness, glossiness, bump, and displacement
• Wall paint, wood, marble, glass, metal, fabric, leather, stone, tile, and facade materials
• V-Ray Material, V-Ray Blend Material, V-Ray Light Material, and V-Ray 2-Sided Material
• Texture maps and material library management
• Camera setting and composition
• Physical camera, focal length, exposure, white balance, and depth of field
• Interior and exterior camera placement
• Professional camera angle selection
• V-Ray objects and advanced tools
• V-Ray Proxy, V-Ray Clipper, V-Ray Fur, V-Ray Plane, and V-Ray Decal
• Using proxies for heavy scenes
• Grass, carpet, branding, surface detailing, and section presentation workflows
• Chaos Scatter
• Grass, plants, trees, landscape, and object scattering
• Density control, randomness control, and surface-based scattering
• Render settings
• Image sampler, noise threshold, global illumination, brute force, light cache, and denoiser
• Draft render settings and final render settings
• Interior and exterior render optimization
• Reducing render time and improving render quality
• Final rendering workflow
• Day view rendering, night view rendering, interior rendering, and exterior rendering
• Camera-wise final output and export settings
• V-Ray Frame Buffer post-production
• Exposure correction, highlight control, shadow control, color correction, and white balance
• Bloom, glare, light mix, denoising, lens effects, and render history
• Final post-production workflow inside V-Ray Frame Buffer
• Corona Renderer recorded module
• Corona lights, materials, camera, render settings, and post-production basics
• Lumion recorded module
• 3DS Max model export and Lumion import
• Lumion materials, environment, landscape, vegetation, lighting, camera, and walkthrough basics
• Final image and video export from Lumion
• Complete exterior final project
• Complete interior final projects
• Final portfolio-ready renders
• Certification after successful course completion