3D Max Lighting and Rendering Tips

I will be starting this Lighting and Rendering Tips... i will be putting here lighting and rendering tips, techniques, and tweaking . And if you have some request , just post it in here.

Pwede start tayo sa Vray Sun??? gusto ko pa malaman yung ibang magagawa nito eh...for Exterior or Interior...thanks in advance

Ako rin sir sa lighting din po...different lighting moods sa exterior sir

pwede po request ung pag gamit po ng IES? salamats po in advance mga sirs/mams

reinner wrote:pwede po request ung pag gamit po ng IES? salamats po in advance mga sirs/mams

Photometric light > Free point .....

Web Parameters..click NONE and chose IES light/file in your library...



Hope that helps...

patz_28 wrote:Ako rin sir sa lighting din po...different lighting moods sa exterior sir

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salamat po @kurdaps!

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salamat po @kurdaps!

Welcome Sir...

mgandang mood nang sun setting sir..tnx

reinner wrote:pwede po request ung pag gamit po ng IES? salamats po in advance mga sirs/mams

see this one sir
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sir kurdaps... how about ung vray ies? same as photometric ba ito? TIA

Stryker wrote:sir kurdaps... how about ung vray ies? same as photometric ba ito? TIA

You mean......rendering IES in Vray?

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eto sir daps...TIA

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eto sir daps...TIA

Wala me nito sa Max-Vray ko Sir... Ano ba version gamit mo?

Anybody used the same version?

Yeah i think it is almost the same. It came with vray sp2 sir daps.Regardless if your using max 2008 or 2009.
Been using it for quite a while and must say theres a difference with rendering time. Vray Ies render faster than photometrics..Yun lng po yung observation ko.

ARCHITHEKTHURA wrote:Yeah i think it is almost the same. It came with vray sp2 sir daps.Regardless if your using max 2008 or 2009.
Been using it for quite a while and must say theres a difference with rendering time. Vray Ies render faster than photometrics..Yun lng po yung observation ko.

Hmmmmmm...

Thanks for the info...

max 2009 vray sp2 sir... gamit ko... ! nde ko pa nagamit yan vray ies n yan kaya natanong ko e heheh
anyways thanks sir architektura for the info...

How bout some tips on making materials look white? I would set my color selector to 255,255,255...but in the rendering, the material would still look off-white...any tips?

AJ Cortez wrote:How bout some tips on making materials look white? I would set my color selector to 255,255,255...but in the rendering, the material would still look off-white...any tips?

When you say off white? Overbrights? Light color can also affect material diffuse, BTW.

Anyways, here's one tip when cooking up real world 8-bit materials:

No material can return more light than it could receive, Which means - all the elements like diffuse, specularity, reflections, refractions, self-illumination etcetera should pretty sum up to a hundred percent unless you are simulating a daylight bulb.

It's a good practice to turn down the intensities of primary colors, so if you have a white object and you know it will be lit, must reflect and must show specularity - do not set the diffuse colors to 255,255,255 - because for sure when the lighting adds up - it will no longer be white, it will be overbright.

Same thing with primaries, red, blue or green (specially yellows if you will be showing work in an NTSC screen),
lower the value to at least 5 steps - so for RGB 255,000,000 make that at least 250,000,000.

Thanks for the tips V, I'll have to try this out. I don't really have a problem with the overbrights, it's more that the whites tend to look more like a really light grey.

in architecture

off white - White containing a slight amount of gray, yellow, or other light color.

yan din problem ko minsan!!! nde kaya sa effect parin ng light yun, as sir V is refering to? (in this case the white returns the light to the camera, and dahil sa mababa ung intensity, it turns out to be greyish) heheh! medyo naguluhan narin ako!!

Whites in your scene should be based on how whites look in the Material Editor. Just make sure that you set the same renderer for both the scene and ME.

If the whites in Material look fine, then the greys in your renderings could be the result of other factors:

1. Lights, or lights affecting diffuse or shadows
2. Global Illumination or bounces from other materials
3. Gamma settings

For my white I used 254, 254, 254.

that's one integer 1/255

While it aint wrong. Its like suntok sa hangin. It doesn't hurt and it doesn't have a range to show any visible difference at all.

it usually happens when uve got an offwhite wall next to a chalk white wall.

sometimes i cheat on this. i use a standard material with a bit of self - illumination. but i don't use 255,255,255 - it's somewhere bet 235-250. it's all about the perception of white, really.