Hey guys! Can anyone suggest me a good tutorial for vray about character lighting or character presentation? I mainly want to learn how to create a good lighting scene and a proper workflow to composite the different render pass in photoshop Also i would prefer a tutorial that is rendering a textured piece instead of a…
Ive been trying to set up scene with lighting using the vreylight/sun or any, and Physical Camera (I use 3dsmax2016). It just doesnt happen, Everything is white, and right now I deleted all the lights and camera so it should be a black render screen AND AGAIN its white. I deleted the whole set and again its white. Ive been…
I have the passion on ArchViz and I am a self-taught 3D artist. I would like to learn ArchViz from scratch. I would like to use 3Ds Max for modeling and Vray for Max for rendering. I have been searching for online tutorials and couldn't find any good result. Please if there's someone out there to help me out, I will be…
3ds max, vray. How can i prevent "self-shadowing" of an object? That means how to prevent an object from casting shadow ONLY on itself, but STILL casting his shadow on other object- no "self shadow" on the object? Is there a way? (i can only think of object properties and uncheck "cast shadow", that prevents the object…
Hello everyone! I hope you can help me with the issue I am struggling with for some time already.I have a simple model with simple materials set up. Normal map is backed adequately but when I try to bake VRayDiffuseFilterMap or VRayCompleteMap in preview strange darkening appears http://joxi.ru/YmE3ex7TZz6DPA and in the…
Maya. I use vraymtl with grey color as "base" material for vray blend node and vraymtl with blue color for "coat" of the same blend node. And as a "blend amount" i use black and white texture. Everything works as expected until i want change blue and have it transparent and not blue . Blue becomes white and not…
Hi guys, trying to get back to small basic stuff as to not have too much to chew at once learning. So I made a simple scene with these little lanterns floating in the ocean. Ive been fiddling with the render settings and the camera and light settings a ton but I must be missing something because The top image is what my…
Hi All I`m running a new(ish) PC with a Intel Core i7-2600K and 8Gb ram and i`m finding rendering in maya is causing the system to go really sluggish (mouse stuttering). So I have to keep turning the program tasks down to low priority in task manager. Just wondering if other people are finding this or is there some…
Here's a Mel I made to speed up initial UV creation. It automatically creates oriented UVs for the selected meshes and a UV layout for all the objects in the current selection on a single texture sheet. It cuts hard edges and uses the new Auto Seams command (Maya 2017 Update 4 or 2018) to create UV shells which it then…
A while back in college; I took a standard piece of bacon photo, modeled it and combined it with the arms of TAWOGB's(World of Gumball) Banana Joe style of arms and legs to create: model Recently joined Polycount so I thought I'd share some of my previous works. Also added this to VRChat to add to the shenanigans that go…