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hello everyone, I m trying to make a cigarete smoke particle effect with XSI any suggestion plz ...

I am trying to put a blur on a reflection of a toon-shader. Anyone have any ideas on how to do that? ...

Hi, I searched the forum, but found nothing about motion blur on sprites.Is it possible? My settings are : shutter open 0 shutter close ,5 Evaluate Motion SRT at shutter speed It looks strange,becau ...

Hi guys, I got a big problem! every time I start a rendering (both in render region and in a render window), if this take longer than a couple of seconds, my computer turn off without any reason.:shr ...

Does anyone know how to set up your XSI so it can render OpenGL (not mental ray) in high resolution (e.g. 1920x1080 and up) My experience is that anything higher than your screen resolution will sta ...

Hey there, i need to know how to compose a character onto an image with the shadow interacting to give the impression that the character is in there... can anyone tell me how or to do it.. any pointe ...

Is there any way to have fog effect without the environment map getting affected by the fog? I am trying to get the object to dissolve to the custom bkgnd. I tried volume effects, volume_fog, constan ...

im lighting a scene with a hdr map. works fine for all the materials except for the SSS fast skin one im using, in which case its turning up totally black. i put a new version of the SSS onto it and ...

Is here someone experienced with XSI's viewport realtime shaders? I'd like to assign custom .fx shaders with DX Fx node, but I can't find any information in help what type of shaders are supported, ...

Alright. So I have a Material, with 11 sub Materials. Everytime I go to assign Material 4, it assigns material 1 ...

Please help!!! I get a "could not allocate memory" error What the reason? ...

Does the prepass function in finalrender actually make a difference in the final rendering, or is it just for previz purposes? ...

What image format, other than targa, allows for embedded alphas? ...

Hello! How to mix normal maps with simple bump maps in xsi? For example I have a normal map with wrinkles and I want to mix it with a simple skin map to show the pores. How can I do it? Thank yo ...

What is better mr or mayaSoftware? ...

Is it possible, to set an object as renderable through reflection, but not through the view of the camera? ...

Hi Has anyone tried dr. queue render manager? ...

Uff.. I have new renderpass, and i want to apply another texture to two different clusters in new renderpass. Is that possible please? Once I apply new material/texture in new renderpass, it gets app ...

I have a building and small windows.. I want to compose the windows with diffuse glow with the colorful building layer.. please what Operator to use, to lay windows on the colorful building layers? ...

Good evening.. I have game sprites to render - so I have several dozens of complicated sprites, and want to ensure the same camera and light settings.. However, the objects have various render passes ...

Hmmm i wonder is lense fx glow or afterburn glow better... I've never compared em before... ...

Hello Is it normal to have multiplier in photometric lights set to 50000/100000% in order to have decent light power ? Am i doing something wrong ? ...

Hey guys, got a simple maxscript question. I make a copy of a material on an object, stor in a variable, but when i change the material on the first object, the material on the variable is also chang ...

What's a good image map, to map onto a sphere (as a cheap environment) so that chrome can reflect something? The one I made makes the reflections look bleh ...

There was.. im sure of it ...

With motion vectors pass you can add motion blur in post production ...

I've connected a texture to Overall Color in misss_fast_skin_maya shader, but when I reload the texture the previous one is the one that gets rendered? my guess is something on the misss_fast_skin_m ...

MR is giving me weird blurry blotches on the baked maps./.. but only on displaced maps And including the AO in the shader makes the rendertime take longer than separate AO and render combined Like LO ...

Good morning everyone Have someone got any idea why the layer properties doesn't change anything ? Just the hide and the freeze works from the layer properties dialog... ...

How do I create a photorealistic eye? Like this one http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/255161 Thank you ...

Does anyone know of a good site to get 3DS MAX materials I am looking to make a good tire material and a good alloy metal ...

of course press "0" on the object you wanna bake ...

Hello! I've been through the help files and done a lot of searching on the net. I wish to render a video from 3DS MAX with an alpha channel so that I can use the video in premiere. Does anyone know w ...

Hi I'm using maya but it might be a universal problem I don't know..

Trying to understand dispplacement maps.
Using two checker textures here,
one as dispmap which should p ...

what would be recommended settings for a lego like material ? and how can i add a bit of wireframe to it all plastic like materials either seem way to shiney or way to noisy ...

I've got a desktop lamp, but i'm not really sure how to embed a light source in the bulb. Any suggestions? light needs to exclude the bulb... ...

Did any of you guys test out the mental ray sss fast skin shader? im having some issues with the reflection. its just too grainy...and i can't see anywhere to tweak it.. i can increase the glossine ...

hello did soeone used Backburner? I got a problem if theres a missing texture file or just a simple missing file in it the backburner said that he didn't find any textures its an arror and the max wo ...

is it posible in max to make an object invisible but leaving it's shadows still visible? -would be ok if this only occurs in the render ...

anyone gimme a BIG help MEM 0.3 info allocation of 96032120 bytes failed flushing MEM 0.3 info try '-memory 622' for future runs RC 0.2 progr computing camera volumes MEM 0.1 progr sce ...

How do I specify which objects and from which light should cast shadows? For example I have 2 lights and 2 objects that cast shadows, I need one of them to cast shadows from on light and another fro ...

I have prepared 4 render passes and there is also the default pass, that I didn't delete. How can I render all my passes without rendering the default one? Thank you. ...

I need a material that will render only shadows casted on the object. Any ideas on how to do it? Thanks in avance! ...

How to use a hdri image to light the scene in xsi? thanks ...

This topic is strictly for Cinema 4D rendering resources. Any links to tutorials and tips on rendering in Cinema 4D are welcome here. . ...

This topic is strictly for Softimage XSI rendering resources. Any links to tutorials and tips on rendering in Softimage Xsi are welcome here. . ...

This topic is strictly for 3ds max rendering resources. Any links to tutorials and tips on rendering in 3ds max are welcome here. . ...

This topic is strictly for Maya rendering resources. Any links to tutorials and tips on rendering in Maya are welcome here. . ...

Everytime i hopen maya the output widow pups up and say "Shadow mapping extensions insufficient to support hardware rendering." Does anybody know what does it mean? And how to solve this problem? ...

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