3dsmax Rendering Support Topic

darco9x2 · Post by **darco9x2** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:46 pm

k ill edit the spec map. im working on dof right now, but i think i got the distance wrong. ill show a pic in a little while.

Veegie[Temp] · Post by **Veegie[Temp]** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:13 am

darco9x2 wrote:k ill edit the spec map. im working on dof right now, but i think i got the distance wrong. ill show a pic in a little while.

Edit the reflection mask.

DWells55 · Post by **DWells55** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:49 am

The whole bike sines too much. THe bumpiness of the material and ther texture both imply this is not a perfectly smooth and relecting material. So it shouldn't reflect the environment like that. Maybe some lighting glare or somehting.

Looks great otherwise.

saddamsdevil · Post by **saddamsdevil** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:52 am

Need some help on how to make custom bumps...
(and pobaply lots of other stuff)

my elite so far:

darco9x2 · Post by **darco9x2** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:40 am

you should make it reflect the environment.

saddamsdevil · Post by **saddamsdevil** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:41 am

It somehow always makes it so the skin reflects too and I have NO knowledge whatsoever about masks and all that fancy stuff....

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:52 am

Masks aren't difficult, just open the diffuse in Photoshop and start filling the areas you wish to reflect on a new layer. Fill them white, put a black background behing it, set it as the mask slot in a Mask. White is positive (Will reflect), black is negative (Won't reflect), and various shades of grey will effect the amount of reflection, white would be full reflectivity, and a 50% grey would be half reflectivity.

darco9x2 · Post by **darco9x2** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:54 am

actually tural, for the elite you can just select the colors in the cc texture, remove what you dont want, overlay the alpha and then add some blur. and, its not skin.

saddamsdevil · Post by **saddamsdevil** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 6:59 am

Tried something, and some neat custom bumps

(I think I rushed them... )

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:18 am

Darco, doing it by hand would be much more accurate, as the Elite's color change textures are very low resolution.

saddamsdevil · Post by **saddamsdevil** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:21 am

I just realised I needed to inverse the masks

red suited him better, added some crappy HDRI, next up, environmental modelling.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:25 am

Neat sword, but the Elite/environment...not so much.

saddamsdevil · Post by **saddamsdevil** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:09 am

Slowly developping...

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:10 am

The grass looks weird. Not even close to dense enough.

The water bothers me for some reason too.

Veegie[Temp] · Post by **Veegie[Temp]** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:32 am

The CC'd areas seem to be completley replaced by their colour, with no blend of diffuse.

saddamsdevil · Post by **saddamsdevil** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:58 am

yeah, somehow it is very weak, but I redid some colour changing map on a higher res (it was way to pixelated) and I think it looks slightly better now.

Off course, it's YOUR oppinion that counts.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:07 am

The bump maps are bad.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:16 am

Yes, way too sharp.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:18 am

If anything, adjust the active camo normals. The bump maps you're using are way, way too thin and sharp, as Gametag said.

saddamsdevil · Post by **saddamsdevil** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:22 am

I didn't edit a bump >_> these are custom...

I guess I could set these as additional bumps, and the ctive camo as main bumps.