Free Coastal Road 3D Scene for Autodesk VRED

Autodesk VRED is one of the most widely used tools on the market for professional 3D designers in the automotive rendering space. 
VRED is used by automotive designers and digital artists, technical surfacing specialists, visualization specialists, digital marketing professionals, and CGI artists. To make the most of VRED, though, designers often need to spend hours setting up the basics of a 3D scene before they’re able to even begin visualizing a vehicle. 
To speed things up, we’re collaborating with Autodesk to provide fully configured 3D scenes that leverage our industry-leading RAY.HDRi Maps to create immersive, realistic environments for your vehicle renders.
Best of all, 5 of our professional VRED 3D scenes are available to download for free!

Our California Coastal Road VRED Scene

Our first free scene depicts a coastal road, showcasing a location in California along the Pacific Coast of the United States.
California’s Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) is one of the most iconic motoring destinations in America–and also one of the most-used locations for vehicle advertising. With our 3D VRED scene, anyone can depict any vehicle in this iconic location.
Our scene includes a full 360-degree image of a dramatic vista on the Pacific Coast Highway utilizing our RAY.HDRi and Tone-mapped TIF version as a base. The original location was captured by our professional photographers using medium format cameras from a real location on the highway.
Like all VRED 3D scenes, this scene also includes full lighting data captured from the real-world location. That allows you to drop in your vehicle model and immediately achieve realistic lighting. The mirror ball above shows some of the lighting present in the scene.
To this scene, our professional designers have added road surfaces and other textures to complete the 3D elements. You can see the dirt berm along the cliffs, and the Pacific Ocean below. The scene is so realistic, you can almost hear the crashing waves!
This scene is perfect for depicting anything from a high-performance sports car to a family sedan. California’s PCH is one of the most aspirational locations for American audiences, which makes it an ideal scene for your rendering projects.
This scene is completely free and can be used under terms of CC BY 4.0
You can grab a copy of our VRED Coastal Road scene here . Make sure to join our newsletter so we can keep you in the loop about all our free VRED scenes.

Author

  • Randal Cumming

    CEO/Co-Founder, CGI.Backgrounds

    Cumming has more than two decades of experience capturing, creating, and transforming product offerings and workflows for clients across the globe. As the CEO of CGI Backgrounds, Cumming leverages his institutional knowledge and experience to help businesses plan and execute interactive, 3D digital strategies that increase consumer engagement and achieve revenue growth goals.