3D Rendering

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

What is better mr or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

;) 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Hi Has anyone tried dr. queue render ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Got any idea on how to make an occlusion pass in max? Like to get it comp on AE? Wasn't there a dirtmap material in max? Cuz this ambient occlusion thing still takes ...

What is a motion vectors pass ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Hi I'm using maya but it might be a universal problem I don't know.. http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9213/chkr3ck.jpg Trying to understand dispplacement maps. Using two checker textures here, ...

Is there anyway to take all the lights in a scene and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How to use a hdri image to light the scene in ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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