What do people generally use when presenting their models?

Green Pirate64

I've been trying to set up the shader built here for Maya, but for some reason I can't get the normals to show. I was wondering what everyone else used when it came to making images of their items for the Workshop.

Reyne

Is there a check box that says something like 'Use Normals'?

Green Pirate64

Yes and its checked on.

belkun

Try using the High Quality Renderer.

Also, people around here usually get renders from Marmoset Toolbag to make presentations.

Snowstorm

I've never gotten that shader's normals in Maya to work. I use Marmoset for the presentation renders now. Before that I used the Xoliulshader and the Dota 2 shader in Max.

Green Pirate64

Yeah, I've tried High Quality as well. The weird thing is that I did end up getting it to work at a computer at my Uni, but my computer won't do it. It could be because I have AMD instead of Nvidia, but I'll just get Marmoset I guess. Looks good in the long run anyway. Thanks everyone!

Reyne

I'm a Max user not a Maya user but is your viewport set up for direct x shading?

Green Pirate64

Yes it is. The only issue I'm having is with the normal maps.

Reyne

hmmm, ok. sorry I couldn't help. :C

Marmoset is a good option if you have the money.

There has been some talk from the developers about implementing a dota 2 style shader to Marmoset 2.

Farfarer

Mostly it's screengrabs from a Dota2-like shader I wrote for Unity 3D.

kite212

Green Pirate64 wrote: »

Yeah, I've tried High Quality as well. The weird thing is that I did end up getting it to work at a computer at my Uni, but my computer won't do it. It could be because I have AMD instead of Nvidia, but I'll just get Marmoset I guess. Looks good in the long run anyway. Thanks everyone!

For the max shader dont use a render.It's a direct x shader, it will only render real time. Use the grabviewport max plugin. This will let you get a supersampled grab of the current viewport. This is the only way to capture a real time shader from max

Edit: misread, now see its a maya shader issue, maybe something to do with mayas normal weighting?