3dsmax Rendering Support Topic

benman08 · Post by **benman08** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:37 am

Can i get a pic of what these old shields looked like? i dont think i have ever seen them.

Chief Cow · Post by **Chief Cow** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:01 pm

I think I've finaly finished my fake radiosity lighting for inside of death island. Note that the light fixtures models aren't present yet, but the lights that go with them are.

Suggestions (mostly on the lighting)???

darco9x2 · Post by **darco9x2** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:03 pm

that looks really good.

benman08 · Post by **benman08** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:59 pm

Put the masterchief closer to the camera

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:48 pm

though it is good considering this is my first time rendering correct spartan?

benman08 · Post by **benman08** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:30 pm

For a first, yes.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:33 pm

Yes! thanks benman.

darco9x2 · Post by **darco9x2** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:52 pm

Chief Cow did you follow a tutorial for faking radiosity? i really need to learn how to get that good of an affect.

Chief Cow · Post by **Chief Cow** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:08 pm

No, I'm using the mental ray renderer actually, plus a lot of mr area lights with some mental ray light shaders (those are in the last rollout option thing in mr area light dialog). And i turn on GI, not to fake radiosity, but to make the lights brightness more realistic, since when you use light shaders, there is no power option, just color; The GI doesn't affect an actual radiosity effect because all my lights have cuttoff points, aka attenuation (option in the light shader). The fake radiosity effect just comes from placing lights in good places.

Only point of doing all this was to save time, crap load of time because Ill making a SHORT movie on DI once i get all the parts together.

darco9x2 · Post by **darco9x2** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:13 pm

yeah im bascially doing the same thing you are, except im not using mental ray.

Tanasoo · Post by **Tanasoo** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:44 pm

benman08 wrote:Can i get a pic of what these old shields looked like? i dont think i have ever seen them.

I think it was in the oooold Halo trailer, like the first one ever I think. It might be in the halo2 map pack, but I am not certain...

Nice scene Chief cow BTW. The spartan needs a little work (Mostly pose, I can hardly see him), but the environment is great!

benman08 · Post by **benman08** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:33 am

Found it

Chief Cow · Post by **Chief Cow** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:50 am

Ok, heres a closeup of mc for mr. benman

Hes outside now

And I'm liking those elite shields

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:30 pm

I love the bumps on the AR and MC!

=sw=warlord · Post by **=sw=warlord** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:08 pm

.........just started rendering....not sure what to do next...how do i fix the bump-maps?

i need to know what to fix and how to fix it also how do i add detail maps to add some sort of detail such as making it look like it is metal not just like this?

darco9x2 · Post by **darco9x2** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:14 pm

for detail maps, you can either use a mix or an rgbmultiply. not sure if that has a color change or not, but if it does use photoshop to overlay the alpha on the color change where its not black and use that as your specular map. if it doesnt, use the alpha map for specular. when using detail maps, make sure you tile them according to the size of the image.

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:17 am

Also, add the proper cubemap to the model. I'm 80% sure the monitor uses the same cube as the pistol.

trepdimeflou · Post by **trepdimeflou** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:22 am

If you're working on h1 ingame stuff, use Guerilla to open the shad tag; it has everything you need.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:15 pm

Jean luc made a tut for detail maps at yayap.com you should try there.

darco9x2 · Post by **darco9x2** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 4:22 pm

http://forums.yayap.com/viewtopic.php?t ... t=tutorial

trying to get the ingam right, so i can use hdri on it when i use it for an animation. am i getting closer? [i still dont like cubemaps spartan.]