3dsmax Rendering Support Topic

DWells55 · Post by **DWells55** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:33 pm

The explosive barrels are supposed to give off light and some of the visors looked funny, but not bad.

Ephrum · Post by **Ephrum** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:35 pm

DWells55 wrote:The explosive barrels are supposed to give off light and some of the visors looked funny, but not bad.

They don't reaaaallly give off light as much as they do glow... but yeah, I know what you're saying lol... altho you could probably say that glowing is giving off light, I dunno, my brain's not working anymore... but yeah, the visors got all wacky cuz of the whole 'real reflection' stuff haha, they're reflecting the scene... which is making them look umm... not good, gotta fix that too

JunkfoodMan · Post by **JunkfoodMan** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:47 am

The level's lighting needs ALOT of work, Lockout is darker and less bland.

Ephrum · Post by **Ephrum** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:31 pm

Doesn't seem toooooooo offf.....

http://www.bungie.net/images/Games/Halo ... _mp_02.jpg

(from Bungie.net)

But yeah, I ended up having to scrap it... (again lol..corrupt file due to a freeze up) but yeah haha, I got everything back set up the way it should be, and I even dide the green room this time

lol... I'll post some pictures once I feel like not being lazy

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:34 pm

That picture is from before Halo 2 was released, and you can easily tell that materials and lighting were updated before its release.

Ephrum · Post by **Ephrum** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:34 pm

Jordan wrote:That picture is from before Halo 2 was released, and you can easily tell that materials and lighting were updated before its release.

lol, I know, I'm just saaaayin', gaawd

Finnish · Post by **Finnish** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:48 pm

Can someone teach me how to improve the quality of my texture (and maybe adding a noise map or something)

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:13 pm

Every once in a Blue Moon will a noise map improve a texture's quality.
Bettering the quality of an image can be done by learning for about Photoshop as a whole.

Finnish · Post by **Finnish** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:56 pm

I didnt mean improving it by adding a noise map but making the texture more detailed

Finnish · Post by **Finnish** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:23 am

How can i set the reflection of the visor?
Also how do i change secondary color?
and BTW here is what i have done so far!

Ephrum · Post by **Ephrum** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:02 am

No bump maps? And don't add noise to the armor, it looks bad... aaand... work on your diffuse/color change maps... the rubber A... shouldn't have the same texture as the armor, and B... should be more of it's own color...

Finnish · Post by **Finnish** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:29 am

Thats not a noise map i made the noise looking bumb map in photoshop so that it would look more Halo 3'ish and it looks GREAT! not bad...

Ephrum · Post by **Ephrum** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:33 am

Finnish wrote:Thats not a noise map i made the noise looking bumb map in photoshop

....

and no

Finnish · Post by **Finnish** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:47 am

with the noise map when you look at it from further but i made it so that when you look at it from further it looks good as well...
Look at the picture to see:

Close:

Further:

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:27 am

I do my color changes in Photoshop. I just set the color layer to multiply above the master chief diffuse, and mask off the rubber and scratches.

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:16 pm

Ephrum wrote:the rubber A... shouldn't have the same texture as the armor, and B... should be more of it's own color...

umm... no. it all uses the same texture, its just you use a cc map to give the armor areas color. other than that its using the exact same texture and detailmap.

Ephrum · Post by **Ephrum** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:26 pm

Darco wrote:
Ephrum wrote:the rubber A... shouldn't have the same texture as the armor, and B... should be more of it's own color...
umm... no. it all uses the same texture, its just you use a cc map to give the armor areas color. other than that its using the exact same texture and detailmap.

I don't like that haha, I know that the game uses the Metal_Dirty on both, but it seems weird to me, so I mask it off...

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:29 pm

thats how you get the rubber to not look so contrasted.

Finnish · Post by **Finnish** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:23 pm

Heres what i did whit a single biped arm...

LANG PHASEN F

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:30 pm

reminds me of one of my first renders, people said thats what i looked like.