3DS Max

ajv3d

Ok, I just received an art test from Gameloft. Awesome right? Nope, I'm a little worried. My experience has been in Maya, and they would like the entire scene built in Max! I don't have any experience in Maya really...

Two questions...

1.) Where can I get good information on vertex lighting in 3DS Max? It needs to be 100% vertex color.

2.) Where can I get good information on lightmapping in 3DS Max? The scene can only have one 512x512 light map.

Apophis3d

This might help you with the lightmapping its pretty easy to follow. Its on lightmapping for the Unreal Engine but the process should be similar.

http://www.hourences.com/tutorials-ue3-lightmapping/

jimpaw

Hey man, i am actuallt doing a lowpoly scene (a dungeon myself) and are trying to understand how to do the lightmap ,this is a plugin that lets you use in 30 days, it will lightmap an entire level in minutes. have a look at it.

http://www.texturebaking.com/training-material/

ajv3d

Wow! Jimpaw this looks fantastic, thanks for sharing. Sidenote, if I were to use vertex color to light the scene, I'm assuming the lightmapping would come afterwards? It's such an old technique I really didn't have much training on it.

jimpaw wrote: »

Hey man, i am actuallt doing a lowpoly scene (a dungeon myself) and are trying to understand how to do the lightmap ,this is a plugin that lets you use in 30 days, it will lightmap an entire level in minutes. have a look at it.

http://www.texturebaking.com/training-material/

Andrew Malcolm

hopefully no one from Gameloft reads this?

jimpaw

i dont know, same here really, i am new to vertex lightning and i have never use that plugin either. put i will try it out soon. good luck man !!

Will Faucher

Andrew Malcolm wrote: »

hopefully no one from Gameloft reads this?

I don't think this will be an issue. He is simply using resources that are at his disposal. He is within his rights to do his research here. I did the same for my art test.

ajv3d

Yeah vertex lighting is old school, and new to me too, good luck also!

ajv3d

I'm not worried if someone reads it. I'm just using resources. All my schooling has been with next Gen technology, so vertex lighting, although old school, is something new to me. Learning Max has been on my to-do list, and its pretty simple being all my training has been in Maya.

Andrew Malcolm wrote: »

hopefully no one from Gameloft reads this?