3D Max Lighting and Rendering Tips

OwpieH wrote:Pashare nman po ng warm sunny day exterior at afternoon position and parameters.

ortzak wrote:Pasingit mga sir!! Ask ko din. Ano ang quickest way para maging crispy ang isang scene sample, interior sa isang rendering. TIA medyo on-going pa din ang tutorial ko hehe..

render master wrote:

ortzak wrote:Pasingit mga sir!! Ask ko din. Ano ang quickest way para maging crispy ang isang scene sample, interior sa isang rendering. TIA medyo on-going pa din ang tutorial ko hehe..

scanline or vray?

for vray - i use fixed sa anti-aliasing filter
for scanline - i use mitchell netravali sa AA nya.

v_wrangler wrote:

render master wrote:

ortzak wrote:Pasingit mga sir!! Ask ko din. Ano ang quickest way para maging crispy ang isang scene sample, interior sa isang rendering. TIA medyo on-going pa din ang tutorial ko hehe..

scanline or vray?

for vray - i use fixed sa anti-aliasing filter
for scanline - i use mitchell netravali sa AA nya.

"Fixed" would have no effect on the actual crispiness of the rendering. Along with qmc and adaptive subdivs, it is the algorithmn used to sample raytracing glossies or what you call image samplers. The crispy or blurred look of the rendering is still determined by the Anti-aliasing Filter regardless of what renderer you use.

So if you want to mimic Lightwave's sharpness - follow rendermaster's advice, use Mitnet or CatmullRom.

http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150SP1/examples_image_sampler.htm

mr dream wrote:sir,
ang gamit ko kasi 3dmax 2009,meron ba itong vray,paano ito iset up sa vray ,,thank u

v_wrangler wrote:

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.

maninang wrote:mga bossing... ma-alam ka ba sa mental ray?? di ko kasi ma-load yung vray sa laptop ko... asar nga eh... gusto ko sana matutuhan kung pano gumawa ng cove lighting sa mental ray na gamit ang ies...

TheGothStudent wrote:Dear Sirs / Ma'ams:

I am interested to study further about this subject matter. I am new to this and the Company I work for is giving me a 2-week deadline to produce nice 3D Scene. I just want to ask if someone can PM me a link in which I can download a PDF from.

I'm not lazy to look for it, but I have limited time and I might be wasting it looking for the wrong link.

Thank you very much!

- TheGothStudent -[i]