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| Softimage Xsi: final gathering and particles |
| When I render out a scene with particles (smoke from sphere) It screws up the lighting for the scene how can I fix this. ... |
| 3ds Max: raytracing |
| ;) 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! ... |
| Softimage Xsi: Renderfarm |
| 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! ... |
| Softimage Xsi: problem with 2d fur shader |
| 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 ... |
| XSI 5: G.I. with Hair...ouch! |
| 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 ... |
| Building render server- what kind of graphic card needed |
| 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 ... |
| xsi5 : Environment map and fog |
| 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 ... |
| XSI 5 : Toon shader reflection blur |
| I am trying to put a blur on a reflection of a toon-shader. Anyone have any ideas on how to do that? ... |
| xsi5 : motion blur on sprites? |
| 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 ... |
| xsi5 : Viewport .fx shaders |
| 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, ... |
| 3ds Max 8: Can't asign the Material |
| Alright. So I have a Material, with 11 sub Materials. Everytime I go to assign Material 4, it assigns material 1 ... |
| 3ds Max 8: Could not allocate memory error |
| Please help!!! I get a "could not allocate memory" error What the reason? ... |
| 3ds max: Layer properties |
| 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... ... |
| xsi5: How to mix normal maps with simple bump maps in xsi? |
| 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 ... |
| Maya : Environment for chrome |
| 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 ... |
| 3ds max : Site with materials? |
| 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 ... |
| 3ds max: file formats with embedded alpha channel? |
| What image format, other than targa, allows for embedded alphas? ... |
| 3ds max: Finalrender prepass function question? |
| Does the prepass function in finalrender actually make a difference in the final rendering, or is it just for previz purposes? ... |
| 3ds max: renderable in reflections only |
| Is it possible, to set an object as renderable through reflection, but not through the view of the camera? ... |
| Doctor Queue render manager |
| Hi Has anyone tried dr. queue render manager? ... |
| 3dsmax: Photometric lights problem |
| 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 ? ... |
| xsi5: applying texture to clusters in renderpass |
| 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 ... |
| 3ds max: lense FX vs afterburn |
| Hmmm i wonder is lense fx glow or afterburn glow better... I've never compared em before... ... |
| xsi: windows rendering for compose |
| 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? ... |
| xsi: camera and light settings |
| 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 ... |
| 3dsmax: Linking material to a variable |
| 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 ... |
| 3ds max: occlusion pass |
| There was.. im sure of it ... |
| Maya: motion vectors |
| With motion vectors pass you can add motion blur in post production ... |
| Maya: strange bug? |
| 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 ... |
| MAYA: Mental Ray artifacts on baked maps |
| 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 ... |
| Maya: Photorealistic eye |
| How do I create a photorealistic eye? Like this one http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/255161 Thank you ... |
| 3ds Max: Displace question |
| 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 ... |
| 3ds Max: Baking lights? |
| of course press "0" on the object you wanna bake ... |
| 3ds Max: Rendering video with alpha? |
| 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 ... |
| 3ds max: desktop lamp |
| 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... ... |
| 3dsmax : lego like material? |
| 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 ... |
| 3DS MAX: Rendering shadows only? |
| 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 ... |
| 3ds Max 8: SSS too grainy? |
| 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 ... |
| 3dsmax : Backburner problem |
| 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 ... |
| MAYA: rendering problem please help. |
| 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 ... |
| xsi 5: Selective shadow casting |
| 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 ... |
| xsi 5: How to use a hdri image to light the scene in xsi? |
| How to use a hdri image to light the scene in xsi? thanks ... |
| xsi 5: shadows only material. |
| I need a material that will render only shadows casted on the object. Any ideas on how to do it? Thanks in avance! ... |
| xsi 5: How to render a set of passes at once in xsi? |
| 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. ... |
| Hardware Rendering Problems |
| 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? ... |
| Cinema 4D rendering resources |
| This topic is strictly for Cinema 4D rendering resources. Any links to tutorials and tips on rendering in Cinema 4D are welcome here. . ... |
| Softimage XSI rendering resources |
| This topic is strictly for Softimage XSI rendering resources. Any links to tutorials and tips on rendering in Softimage Xsi are welcome here. . ... |
| 3ds max rendering resources |
| This topic is strictly for 3ds max rendering resources. Any links to tutorials and tips on rendering in 3ds max are welcome here. . ... |
| Maya rendering resources |
| This topic is strictly for Maya rendering resources. Any links to tutorials and tips on rendering in Maya are welcome here. . ... |
| 3D rendering talk - Posting rules |
| 1. This is a forum for 3D rendering topics only. All modeling, texturing and animation questions should be asked in forums allocated specially for these topics. 2. Before asking any questions u ... |
