3dsmax Rendering Support Topic

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:27 am

You need to rotate the cubemaps also. I'll leave that to one of the people who worked on the algorithm.

Tanasoo · Post by **Tanasoo** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:18 am

Yeah I think I needed to rotate the bottom one 180*.
Can you be a little more specific about the specular Veegie?

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:16 am

All of them need rotating in some fashion.

Tanasoo · Post by **Tanasoo** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:37 pm

I just applied them to a cube as diffuse maps and got them to all match up except the bottom one. I still don't think it is exactly correct though. I am going to work on the order some more.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:03 pm

A cubemap should be a Reflect/Refract on the Reflection map.

Edit: I misunderstood. See if trep will tell you how to do it.

Tanasoo · Post by **Tanasoo** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:29 pm

No, sorry I explained that wrong. I set them to a reflect/ refract for the reflections. I set them as diffuse maps on the cube to find out what order to put them in.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:42 pm

I know.

trepdimeflou · Post by **trepdimeflou** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:01 pm

*cough* On yayap.com, search for cubemaps. Me / Aequitas released them all in the Rendering section, and they are formatted to load correctly once you load the first one. *cough*

all of the aforementioned cubemaps are oriented correctly, so all you have to do is load them.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:57 pm

...Show off...

swese44 · Post by **swese44** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:45 pm

trepdimeflou wrote:
im sure theres people who have gotten it to look like it, Dont mean to be rude but you dont know everything.
*cough*

trepdimeflou, that looks amazing! did you add geometry or is that all in the bump? a quick explanation of how you set that up would be awesome, thanks.

Veegie[Temp] · Post by **Veegie[Temp]** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:47 pm

trepdimeflou · Post by **trepdimeflou** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:49 pm

Veegie is right, it's all in the bump.

Tanasoo · Post by **Tanasoo** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:37 pm

Thanks for the cubemap stuff

BFIGHTER · Post by **BFIGHTER** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:52 am

Hallo...
On my MC i am using a color map, and i was wondering...
Can I use a color map and have two different colors at the same time on the MC... you know the First Color then the secondary with the color map?
or do i have to do that in PS?

Veegie[Temp] · Post by **Veegie[Temp]** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:22 am

You do not have to use Photoshop

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:51 pm

use the masterchief's color cc map. the red represents primary, green is secondary, black is uncolored.

MrChief · Post by **MrChief** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:26 pm

Just a quick question in 3ds Max, I searched this up already.. and I can't find answers, but how do you make a cubemap affect only the metal area of the bitmap, I made the alpha bitmap, and I presume it's something in Mix?

Veegie[Temp] · Post by **Veegie[Temp]** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:35 pm

For the reflection channel, select a mask instead of a bitmap(or in this case Reflect/Refract)
For the mask bitmap, select your alpha.
White areas are affected(areas that reflect), black areas are not affected.
And above the mask slot, put your Reflect/Refract.

MrChief · Post by **MrChief** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:52 pm

Thank you.

Any advice for making a visor?

Veegie[Temp] · Post by **Veegie[Temp]** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:30 pm

Use the MC's alpha map as the mask, and mirror surface as the reflect/refract