Pixel art output

Spicypixel

Just wondering if anyone knew how to output renderings isometrically to a pixelart style.
I've got the renders coming out fine isometric just need some tips of setting up mental ray (or any other renderer) to output a 256 colour pixel art-esque render.

Using 3dsmax.

Thanks

Eric Chadwick

Would help to show what you've got so far.

Pretty simple really... use self-illuminated materials with black diffuse, and scanline renderer, and disable both antialiasing and filter maps.

Spicypixel

Thanks, I'll try this out and report back next week. Thanks.

Any other suggestions are welcome.

r_fletch_r

You could try faking colour dithering using heavily tiled checker map

out of interest are you talking dithered colours



or just cartoony?

Eric Chadwick

Oooh Syndicate.

Piflik

EricChadwick wrote: »

Oooh Syndicate.

Yeah...good times...there is a remake/sequel rumored to be released...someday

Spicypixel

The cartoony one looks great, obviously id just render it lower resolution and turn it down to 256 colours and scale it up to attain a pixel art look, may I ask how it was done?

Eric Chadwick

Followed the image link to its source, and dug around a little (not hard to do, hint hint!). It was done in Illustrator, not in 3D. And he has some tutorials on the site...
http://pixel-pusher.co.uk/?p=50

renderhjs

under customize > preferences:
in the Rendering tab under Background tick 'Don't Antialias Against Background'.

Also with the scanline renderer you can disable the Antialiasing (f10 > Renderer). Make sure you disable also the Filter Maps tick as it will blur otherwise your texture mapped objects.

Spicypixel

Ok thanks for the tips render, just a final question, how do I save them out as a 256 colour image?
I tried BMP since it offered 256 colours but it only had optimised palette which made it kind of pointless, wanted a standard palette.

Any tips on how to save it out as a non optimised pallete? resaving each frame in photoshop seems abit extreme.

renderhjs

max is not designed for that, photoshop is so stick with that and create a droplet or macroscript in photoshop.