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http://warpedspace.org/lightingT/part1.htm - A great tutorial about lighting theory with expressive rendering examples.
http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/tutorials/light01.htm - LIGHT - a detail ...

Aqsis Pixie JrMan 3Delight Pixar RenderMan These are all renderers based on Reyes rendering algorithms. Some of these are compliant with renderman standards. Anyone had any experience w ...

Anyone used both of these renders what do you have to say? Which is better? Which provides faster results? What renderer is easier to set up and work with? Reliability, options and so on. ...

Hi guys, My problem is using rendering in MAYA. I render a Kawasaki but the result is bad. I want the best result like the pic. Please help URGENT!!!!!!!! Quang ...

I know how to create a basic reflection, by flipping the image adding a gradient etc. But look at this reflection: I can't post links... go to alienware's website, and the overview page of their ...

Hello 3D artists! I'm making a bowl with fruit for school but i've run into a kind of wierd problem As you see in the image attached, you see the cylinder through the glass, but not the orange. Bu ...

Hello, I have a question about rendering a video file: What settings do I need when I want a video file that can be converted to mp4? I tried it with .avi and then Microsoft video 1, but that ...

Hi folks, I'm quite new with Maya, and my problem is this. When I color objects in Maya, they don't seem to show when I render them afterwards. All I really get is the same shade of grey fo ...

Hi, I am actually doing Computer Vision research and have no experience in 3D rendering. I have a 3D model and I know that the camera is looking at the model from a particular direction, now I ...

I hope I picked the right forum?! I new to mentalray-rendering and all ready tried a few shaders and lighting setups. But as it comes to the point of adding more stuff to a scene, I get pretty fas ...

Hey Guys, Do somebody have ever heard about this software? I just found it on the net... It's a 3D real time rendering software published by Lumiscaphe company. The rendereing quality looks ...

Hi all, Well There is this website http://ryzwear.com/ People upload their artwork and it puts it on a shoe so it wraps around it. I don't know of any way do such an image manipulation (withou ...

im modeling a Nissan 350Z and i was doing some test renders, but i cant seem to get the reflectivity looking right. What do you guys recommend when setting up a "car scene"? all i have in t ...

Hello All, Would anyone here know how to enable Final Gathering to be used with the Rendermap option .... I know how to set up FG and have it set to way I need it too and would like to bake it ...

Is anyone having this problem in Max 5 with Ray tracer practicly exploding your bump maps? Its killing me..Ive tried turning on super sampling and still nothing..Any Help would be much appreciated. ...

Hello, Id like to have blobby, reflective particles. Or fluids with an animateable particle size. Or attack a nive shader to any blob I want... Whenever I try and connect fluid-shaders to blobb ...

hello all, i have unwrapped an object and textured it now for the displacement map...which looks very nice on a flat grid but as soon as there are seams it floats in mid air in the render view wh ...

I am currently trying to exlclude geometry from a skylight using the light include/exlude tool. I select the objects and do what the help files says but when it generates the script i get an unknown ...

I'm using the XSI EXP version. I'm going through the 3dtutorial series on materials and lighting. I'm trying to add a spot light that will be used for GI lighting. When I use Get->Light->Spo ...

hello I 've got a HDRI file converted to *.Map that work fine. In FX tree I made change on it ( color correct) to made a night version but!!! When I save the file in *.map and r-use it, XSI bug ...

Hello, I currently use volumetric light to make an arrangement of blinking lights. The volumetric light of my spot was adjusted to be as big as the light bulb, and it all looked pretty nice in ...

hey dudes, i was just wondering if any body has tried to do any lighting with kino flow based emulation...if so what are the values i'd have to plug into my web distribution fil ...

I am using d3 normal map shader. Is there a way to use a traditional bump map in conjunction with the normal map? ...

I have just installed the XSI 3.0 EXP yesterday and, though it seems to work all right, I have run into an annoying problem. This app is supposed to let you save renders up to 510 x 510 px, but I'm n ...

hey guys im an Avid softimage fan, pun intended, and the one thing i think ive always loved most about XSI is mental ray. i found what i thought would be some awsome links on their site, one catc ...

Is some way to see environment map/texture in view? Not only by render? I cant find it in help. ...

hey i'ce rendered a anim over several machine, and some of them seem to have slightly different gamma levels, so when i play back my seq there is a flickering effect on the frames i've tried th ...

I have new problems. I texture my old models and i have some problems. 1. I have problems with normals - some normasl are inverted, but i can select polygon and then invert (because i have cca 40 ...

Open up the material editor goto the material that u have assigned to the glass and add a filter color map, Raytracing also needs to be turned on, in your light cheers ...

When I turn on the elliptical filtering my texture get tiled. My texture projection is smaller then my model I've attached a simplified exemple of my problem. Does somehone know is there is a ...

Does anyone knows how to make Soft 3D shader (Legacy Shaders) in XSI? I followed the tutorial on Ed harriss web site but failed to works. Can somebody help me? ...

Hi again! :D I need a little help.... Can you tell me how to make the camera Deep Of Field effect with Brazil RS in Global Illumination? Can I use the standard DOF of MAX? :rolleyes: Bye. ...

Is it possible to edit multiple passes at once in xsi? Thank you. ...

I have a problem with network rendering. we are using max 4.26 and mental ray. Some textures are not rendering correctly. Could anyone help me? ...

Added another box to my render farm but when I launch manager it says 'cannot start manager network subsystem error'. Box is a dual pentium. never seen this problem before, any ideas? ...

;) well, must be an insider CD-joke.. I have no idea about the what "raytracing" means. but, sorry I won't wanna disturb your 3d guys. never mind! ...

Hey there! Is there a script out there that creates a lighting rig for nice outdoor scenes? Or may existing lighting rigs with a hot light for the sun that I would be able to download for 3ds ma ...

When I render out a scene with particles (smoke from sphere) It screws up the lighting for the scene how can I fix this. ...

Heya Guys! Just wondering if there's a setting to alow you to render Sub Ds meshes at a high subdivision level while you can still have it displayed at a low subdiv level in your viewport. I kn ...

Hi I am texturing a plant with translucent leaves. The effect works perfectly when the geometry approximation is set to the first level, but on 2 or 3, the translucence just doesn't show through. ...

Ok, I'm texturing a model for my demo reel and having an amazingly hard time with finishing it off. I was all psyched to figure out multiple vertex rgba nodes and have used those with explicit uvw m ...

Does anyone know were i can find good information on how to built a renderfarm? And maybe how to set the licenses (for Softimage XSI). thanks! ...

Is there anyone out there offering pay by hour/minute type rendering solutions for XSI or Si3D? We are looking for more rendering solutions and I would like to know all the pros/cons to using render ...

I get a sphere as the light source , Just wondering if the U, V subdiv of the sphere will affect the result of FG. ...

Hi, I've tried to use the 2d fur shader but I get always this error 'INFO : "PHEN 0.1 warn : Could not invert matrix " and on the top of objects, everything is ok but on the bottom ...

Is it possible to use the environment shader with final gathering? When I try it everything turns to the color of the environment shader. Should I turn down the intensity of my light or do I ...

Hey I'm try to create an environment by apply shader to the default pass, here is what i did: in the render tree node-->environment-->more and i choose legacy day,and connect it to th ...

Hi everyone, is there any ways to decrease render time when working with Hair mixed with Global Illumination. I'm already comfortable with G.I. optimization, but Hairs don't seem to be reasonably ...

We're building a rendering server to take care of scenes and models from both Max and Maya on the server. Dual amd opt2.4 dual-core in a sm h8da8-2 mb , 4 sata 10k 150g hd w/ raid 1, 16g ram, XP64 o ...