3dsmax Rendering Support Topic

foxfanatic23I7 · Post by **foxfanatic23I7** » Mon May 28, 2007 1:22 pm

I tihnk it looks awesome the way it is. Nice job theguardian!

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Mon May 28, 2007 1:45 pm

I agree with Junkfoodman, in that it looks very dirty. And if you compare it to the rubber, which looks very clean it doesn't match.

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Mon May 28, 2007 2:29 pm

kornkidcrazy wrote:Nice GIR! Try adding more details and model the sides to make look more realistic. YOu got the side views down!

Thanks KKC. ;p Anyway, I've been looking at the Beretta 9000 tutorial everyone links to, and I think what I'm going to do is export what I have and try to finish it in 3dsMax.

Trulife8342 · Post by **Trulife8342** » Tue May 29, 2007 1:24 pm

Just messing around with afterburn, if you have any experience with afterburn or know of a better fire particle system please aim me

CDK908 · Post by **CDK908** » Tue May 29, 2007 8:09 pm

pretty cool

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Thu May 31, 2007 12:36 pm

Here's something I've did awhile back but forgot to post about.

I have no idea how to fix the windshield.

Veegie[Temp] · Post by **Veegie[Temp]** » Thu May 31, 2007 12:56 pm

Lower the reflection and opacity amount?

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Thu May 31, 2007 1:06 pm

I don't have an opacity map set up for the windshield, nor do I have any idea how to set up a working one,

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Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu May 31, 2007 1:20 pm

You don't need an opacity map. Just lower the amount, like he said.

Darco · Post by **Darco** » Thu May 31, 2007 1:24 pm

If youw ant to add opacity, put the alpha in the opacity slot for it. And set it to around ~25.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu May 31, 2007 1:49 pm

The alpha for the windshield, on the Warthog standard, is pure white. You don't need to put the alpha there, it will change nothing. Just lower the value.

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Thu May 31, 2007 6:05 pm

I lowered the value and all it does is make it really grey like the color of the model.
I have the reflection map set up with a reflect/refract with the Vehicle_glass as the cubemap. For the windshield theres no active maps except the reflection.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu May 31, 2007 6:23 pm

Post a render with the opacity lowered.

Veegie[Temp] · Post by **Veegie[Temp]** » Thu May 31, 2007 6:47 pm

And reflection.

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Thu May 31, 2007 8:36 pm

So I'm using this tutorial, kay? And when I apply my reference image to the plane, its all pixelated and the quality is terrible. Is there any way to fix this? Or am I SOL? =/

Veegie[Temp] · Post by **Veegie[Temp]** » Thu May 31, 2007 9:08 pm

Change your viewport settings whilst you're in OpenGL.

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Thu May 31, 2007 9:22 pm

3ds Max n00b: Er....How. I've run the 'Change Graphics Mode' thing and it all looks really pixelated still. I ran it using OpenGL, but I'm not sure where to change viewport settings. Could you point me towards said settings? o.o [/3dsMaxn00b]

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu May 31, 2007 10:01 pm

I'm not too familiar with it, so if this has nothing to do with it, ignore me, but try this:

Customize > Preferences > Viewports > Configure Driver > Download Texture Size

Set it to 512 and check the checkbox.

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Thu May 31, 2007 11:53 pm

Didn't work.

Maybe Veegie'll come back to save teh day. :p

kornkidcrazy · Post by **kornkidcrazy** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:57 am

This is what I did to make mine look better. First, I went to Customize - Preferences - Viewports - Choose Driver

Pick openGL

Reboot max, then go back to Customize preferences - viewports. Now in configure driver, match this.

Also. if the bitmap is already really low res, it wont improve it by much.