How to present high poly models

bcottage

Evening all! Just wondering if anyone knows any shaders or plug ins or...whatever to best show off high poly assets.

I am close to finishing modelling a Mossberg 500 scoped and want to present it the best i can.

I am aware of xoliul shader and the 3 point shader and marmoset but i am currently not aware of anything else?

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Computron

3point lighting setup, dark background. Dark diffuse, bright secular, 10-20 glossiness.

sprunghunt

bcottage wrote: »

Evening all! Just wondering if anyone knows any shaders or plug ins or...whatever to best show off high poly assets.


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http://wiki.polycount.com/Model%20Presentation

...but the wiki is forever

cptSwing

If you're lazy like me, you could also try the little maxscript I have linked in my sig..

It dumps 3 lights into the scene (relative to the bounds of your selection), slaps a metal material on it and renders away. Assign floater objects to Id 1 to not have them cast AO. I need to flesh out the installation instructions, though..

BARDLER

Ambient occlusions makes anything look good even with just one simple directional light, and if you are feeling fancy a cool camera with depth of field.

Kbrom12

I use a vray max scene I setup a while back, its the typical studio render setup. Works very well for me; I use that for finished models. For WIP's though I just use simple 3 point lighting setup or a zbrush best preview screenshot.

bcottage

cptSwing: hey dude, i have evulated it but i dont understand what to do next "Customize User Interface" dialog in the "Renderconfigs" group."

NAIMA

sprunghunt wrote: »

http://wiki.polycount.com/Model%20Presentation

...but the wiki is forever

Nice but there is nothign about how to make a presentation in zbrush?

cptSwing

bcottage: in the customise menu, assign the RenderConfigss entry to a menu or a toolbar. also, make sure you've edited the script to point to the correct path for your material library (and then reevaluate)..

bcottage

sorry cptSwing, i am a complete noob when it comes to anything other then "the modeling section in 3ds max"

do you mean somewhere here?

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel

there are infinite ways to go about the actual process of making the render, its most important to remember your goals... you want to show the model clearly, you want to demonstrate the strengths of both its design and its execution. once you know what you are trying to show, you can then rationally decide how to show it