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Re: Has this been discussed yet? Dynamically changing normal maps?
My name is Dries, and I reaaaally need help with this kind of thing. I take it that the thread was talking about this: [ame] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLeksjN4N0c[/ame] I am doing my first 'big' animation and I am using 3Dsmax2009 with finalRender (use to use mentalRay, was bad) Would you be kind enough to help me… -
Re: Monthly Community Noob Challenge December 2014 (26)
10 days after deadline this is my final. I call it final because I have no more pleasure with doing this piece. There are a lot of mistakes but I'm happy I done and learn from that. First picture is staight from Maya's Viewport 2.0 second one is mentalray render. Also I did tiny curves adjustments and sharpen in PS.… -
Re: Maya AO maps
[ QUOTE ] strange though, because 3dsmax produces blown out shite also. I have never got results like in that first xsi bake you posted Daz [/ QUOTE ] You can adjust the settings in max to reduce the blown-out look. If you increase the 'spread' that works. Or you can not use mentalray and use the light tracer instead. That… -
Re: Linear space tools for photoshop?
I don't think you need to worry about working in linear space while creating textures. I think the only change in a linear lighting workflow is how rendering engines calculate lighting. In the past (and mostly in the present) game engines would calculate lighting based on gamma corrected images. Now they are lighting… -
Max 2012 MetaSL Shader errors.
Is anyone here familiar with the MetalSL shaders that come with 2010-2012? Every time I try to load a shader it gives me this error. Loading XMSL Errors: Unable to open file 'utils.msl'. missing shader class: Matlib_color_passthrough The file has no metaSL surface node. What do you guys think? Someone suggested having… -
Rendering Tutorials?
Heyall. I'd like to improve my rendering skills. Like using the mentalray SSS shader for example. However I'm finding it difficult to find good tutorials that aren't high level and instead have direct examples of usage. How are you all getting into this stuff? I'm sure there are some awesome tutorials somewhere... I… -
Re: Best AO Baking Methods
Your lightmap looks dark all round to begin with, so there's a problem right off the bat. If you want greater control though, you should absolutely be rendering it separately and doing the merge in something like photoshop (on a multiplied layer). Personally, for my AO bakes I will switch to MentalRay and use the Ambient… -
Re: max tangent basis wtf
I think the long and short of it is you need to choose a baking app and use the same tangent basis calculation as it. If your using max then use the suitable math. You can bake in Mentalray but you can get better results faster with max. Using Scanline + the 'global super sampler' produces very crisp hi fidelity normal… -
Re: Merman on Earth
Thanks guys! @pliang : You're right, that's the kind of details that I should have thought. In fact, he still have gills on is neck. I've thought of this civilisation as amphibians people. Even if, they're on land, they still have the ability of moving under water. @Spitfire : I'll try to render it, on max /mentalray or… -
Re: Most effective way to create specular maps?
while its good to understated how shaders work specular is just a non-physically based approximation of reflectance. for the forcible future secular approximation is going to be used for shaders. even in more physically accurate systems like vray and mentalray you still have secular available. because it 'looks good'. and…
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