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Mental Ray baking problems
So I'm trying to process within Max 9 (normally use xnormal but I cant now) I can bake everything fine - get good normal maps, diffuse, etc, so I know how to work it and work the cage fine. But whenever I get to rendering an Ambient Occlusion map (MR) it always borks up - I always get the low poly intersecting with the… -
Re: A thread where I try to improve by making things look like the things they look like
Thanks everyone :) @ afisher : haha thanks dude. A time-lapse vid is pretty hard for me at the moment because I usually only have short periods of time to work on these, seriously like 15- 20 mins one day, then maybe an hour or two, then 10 mins it drives me nuts..... then there is the whole internet issue. I seriously… -
Re: [Portfolio] - Daniel Aichler, Environment Artist
I would change the polycounts to say 'tris' instead of 'tries'. The latter is the common way to abbreviate triangle, the second is a synonym for 'attempts' and I would like to think you did not have to start your pulse pistol over 1172 times. I would also second the opinion to tweak your spec maps. Your materials are not… -
3DS Max - Baking Issues - AO and NRM
Hey to all, I'm having abit of a problem in Max's baking. Basically, whenever I bake my high poly onto my low poly, if I use Scanline 2.5 sampler, everything works fine with both cage and raycast. But when I revert back to Mental Ray (in Max) and bake it, I start getting horrible spots and specks on my maps, almost as if… -
3dCodex.com - Critiques and Ideas
Hello everyone, I'm Mr. Bluesummers, and I've created a new tutorial aggregation site called 3dCodex.com. It's named this way because I want to pay specific attention to browse-directed users (without neglecting search-directed users, of course). My goal is to maintain a clean, organized, and useful collection of 3dsMax… -
Mental Ray Sky Portal Rendering As A Black Plane - 3ds Max 2016
I have had an issue in my scene where a mr Sky Portal at my window is rendering as black and hiding my environment: and if I shift it back, you can see the environment fine, it's only the Sky Portal blocking it: The Sky Portal's 'Visible To Render' box is unchecked and the transparency is white. I have no glass (removed it… -
Re: gamma LUT settings 3dsmax
I read somewhere that if you use logarithmic exposure and have gamma set at 2.2 it will look too bright. I use this a lot but set my gamma to around 1.62 the theory is that if you use logarithmic it applies it own internal gamma setting of 2.2 but its a bit borked, hence changing the gamma back to 1.62 if you use mental… -
Re: The poo room
Thanks! I also have a book my wife hi-jacked from work lol. Great refrence especially for setting up the lighting. Most of the rest I can figure out on my own but it was invaluable for helping figure out FG and GI. Well the lighting is pretty simple. Its just a daylight system, with mr sun and sky and I used the mr… -
Top 5 inspirational feeds
I know we get a few "I want inspiration" threads. So maybe this will help people. I get a LOT of feeds from various communities, websites, blogs, etc. I get all the usual ones like Conceptships/robots, conceptartworld, ZBrushcentral, etc. So I thought it'd be cool to share some of my favourite feeds that maybe not everyone… -
Re: Monthly Community Noob Challenge August 2014 (22)
Mr. Bench, you may wish to revisit the bottom part of the main facade of the machine. You've got five notches on the bottom, and the concept has seven. Additionally, your notches are not evenly spaced. Also, the capsule region on your machine looks fine to me, but there's a mismatch with the concept, where its shape is…
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