3ds max render to texture quality

Talbot

So here is my problem.



My problem is the areas circled in red. I just haven't been able to get them to render clearer. I have tried adjusting the cage and raising the quality but nothing has worked. I don't think that raising the ray count more will help. I just think that it will make the blue area better.

I currently am rendering in MR at 32 rays. The samples per pixal are set at 4-16.

Anyone have any ideas?

Mark Dygert

For the top pipe I'd probably just go one row of pixels over, and drag it over to cover the error. Doing the same thing for the other problems. Quick little fixes like that are pretty common when you bake any kind of capped cylinder with projection.

You could try detaching to element the end caps. So it doesn't average around the lip but creates a floater on your cage that projects straight. But that's more work then just cleaning it up in PH.

alexk

when I bake my AO's i set my rays to 500 for highquality, i don't know what my samples is, i think i left those at default. That way you don't get that puffyness in the flat shaded areas. I'm also using the light tracer method. That probably won't solve the issues you have, but thought I'd just throw that tip out. Lightracer setup can be found at http://wiki.polycount.net/3D_Tutorials/Modeling_Bathroom_Tiles

The parts you listed seem like areas that are too close to another mesh, and can be fixed using what vig suggested, photoshop or bake seperately. Try them both. Also, sometimes those nasty edges in your AO is just the padding it adds (a setting in the RTT). If it doesn't show up when you use the AO map as a diffuse on your model, then it's just the padding

Talbot

What does the padding do?

Talbot

Nevermind about the padding. I figured it out. I put the padding to 0 and was able to get this.



Still not perfect but it is getting there.

glib

You're probably going to want at least a little padding to allow for the filtering on your textures.

renderhjs

or merge the 2 if alpha is stored as well

Talbot

Ok but how do I fix the wavy edges?