3dsmax Rendering Support Topic

jon(os) · Post by **jon(os)** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:20 pm

Hey Thanks!
well im not sure what look im headin towards. i guess a little of all those.
played around a little more, still a WIP

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:41 am

It looks too scuffed to be shiny... or the other way around.

You can't really have a dirty and clean look at the same time... nah meeeen?

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:04 pm

Don't use halo 2 cubemaps. Either use the ones from h3 or use an hdr.

trepdimeflou · Post by **trepdimeflou** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:20 am

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3924/26001571wt5.jpg

meh. wrong topic, but i don't really care =|

Trulife8342 · Post by **Trulife8342** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:27 pm

Man I had a beautiful H3MC Material but I reformatted and I had made the stuff for it too...

DEEhunter · Post by **DEEhunter** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:41 pm

Plan on shareing?

flyinrooster · Post by **flyinrooster** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 9:43 pm

Any help with the armor and (especially) the visor is appreciated.

SP(need to fix the smoothing):
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/4597/spartanck4.jpg

MP(smoothing is fixed):
http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/1166 ... nmpfd7.jpg

Keablr · Post by **Keablr** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 9:57 pm

I prefer the first one. The second one seems off. The visor seems as if it is missing the bump map.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:43 pm

The second one does a nice job of emulating the multiplayer shader, albeit when it's in a shadow and such, but it's pretty accurate to that setting.

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:15 pm

I like the second one.. really clean.

trepdimeflou · Post by **trepdimeflou** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:28 am

unknownv2 · Post by **unknownv2** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:57 am

Wow, that's pretty accurate.

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:12 pm

trepdimeflou wrote:http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/7933/spartan1uq7.png

...and you want support? You should be teaching us..

Looks really close to ingame. By close I mean I can't really tell the difference without a comparison.

DEEhunter · Post by **DEEhunter** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:26 pm

Looks a bit to glossy really.

flyinrooster · Post by **flyinrooster** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:04 pm

So I made a new material from scratch (disliked the old one). Not much compared to treps, but this is what I've got.

Basically, I need help and suggestions for the whole thing. Right now I'm trying to focus on the armor.

Keablr · Post by **Keablr** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:25 pm

As I said on yayp, it looks great, but what doesn't work with me is the Torso, seems to strong, stands out to much. But other than that love it.

EDIT:
This is just a test of my new material I created. Tell me what needs to be fixed, or if it is any good.

http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs30/f/2008/ ... Keablr.png

trepdimeflou · Post by **trepdimeflou** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:46 pm

you need to learn new lighting techniques outside of those found in tutorials...standard tutorial HDR lighting is not going to get you the perfect render every time; it's just an introduction to what you could experiment with to get potentially hyper-realistic results.

new material, new pose:

Keablr · Post by **Keablr** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:34 am

Looks good trep, but I don't know what you mean by tutorials, I haven't followed any tutorials except for the one on rendering the Halo 2 Chief. I have been trying to experiment more with different lightings and what not, haven't really found what I am exactly trying to portray on the chief's armor yet.

Snave · Post by **Snave** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:49 am

Loving the renders guys

*Wants to go render something cool now*

flyinrooster · Post by **flyinrooster** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:20 pm

Trep could you add me on aim? I sent you a pm a while ago and got no reply. I can't tell when you are on or offline either (on aim), I just go by what leet says. Also, :awesome:.

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