3dsmax Rendering Support Topic

DEEhunter · Post by **DEEhunter** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:10 am

saddamsdevil wrote:I need to know what time of the day would fit this garden best: I am gonna put mc and some eletes in it.
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Looks nice for a cloudy night time type of environment.

CDK908 · Post by **CDK908** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:29 pm

how can i improve this image? i still need to add the lights to the armour but can't seem to know how...

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Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:16 pm

I...

cannot tell what the character is doing
cannot tell where he is
cannot get over your disgusting choice image compression
cannot think of a reason for rendering at 1080p

saddamsdevil · Post by **saddamsdevil** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:01 am

CDK908 wrote:how can i improve this image? i still need to add the lights to the armour but can't seem to know how...

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Where to begin...

Work on the swords a bit
Work on the Elite material so you can tell what it is
Work on your lightning
Work on your image compression
What is that floor?

I wish you luck.

CDK908 · Post by **CDK908** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 4:35 am

Veegie wrote:I...
cannot tell what the character is doing

cannot tell where he is

cannot get over your disgusting choice image compression

cannot think of a reason for rendering at 1080p

what do you want him to do? have sex? and the floor should be ice like place...

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 4:38 am

CDK908 wrote:what do you want him to do? have ***?

Well right now, it looks like he's skating or something ridiculous. It's not characteristic of running, because the pose is not the manner in which Elites run.

Also, the materials, overall, are lacking detail. Looks like just diffuses.

CDK908 · Post by **CDK908** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:08 am

Tural wrote:
CDK908 wrote:what do you want him to do? have ***?
Well right now, it looks like he's skating or something ridiculous. It's not characteristic of running, because the pose is not the manner in which Elites run.

Also, the materials, overall, are lacking detail. Looks like just diffuses.

=P im new to rendering so im learning..

CDK908 · Post by **CDK908** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:48 pm

ok im still new but i really need a detail tut about making the color changing bump maps. anyway i've been messing around with using diff mc bump maps. this is a active camo bump with the cc over it. tell me how it looks and i really need a link to that tut. i can't find one that goes into dep.

and yaya i know i need to learn file compression...
http://static.filefront.com/images/pers ... ahcjis.jpg
Image tags removed until you can show you can properly compress an image...

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:51 pm

Get rid of the background, it's incredibly distracting and serves no purpose, in addition to increasing the file size (A 2mb jpeg, Jesus).

You don't put a color change on a bump map.

Use a color other than gray for the armor, it's very difficult to distinguish things when it's all the same color.

CDK908 · Post by **CDK908** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:37 pm

Tural wrote:Get rid of the background, it's incredibly distracting and serves no purpose, in addition to increasing the file size (A 2mb jpeg, Jesus).

You don't put a color change on a bump map.

Use a color other than gray for the armor, it's very difficult to distinguish things when it's all the same color.

ok first, it's a 2mb png. i did a quick upload so it comes out as a jpg at the end if you do quick upload on filefront. and yes i did but a color change.
i'll render again with a diff color and get rid of the background

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:38 pm

CDK908 wrote:ok first, it's a 2mb png. i did a quick upload so it comes out as a jpg at the end if you do quick upload on filefront. and yes i did but a color change.

Never save as a PNG if you don't have a specific reason to (Such as transparency).

As for the bump map color change: I didn't ask if you did, I said don't do it. You should not use a color change on a bump map, that doesn't even make sense.

CDK908 · Post by **CDK908** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 5:40 am

Tural wrote:
CDK908 wrote:ok first, it's a 2mb png. i did a quick upload so it comes out as a jpg at the end if you do quick upload on filefront. and yes i did but a color change.
Never save as a PNG if you don't have a specific reason to (Such as transparency).

As for the bump map color change: I didn't ask if you did, I said don't do it. You should not use a color change on a bump map, that doesn't even make sense.

ea time i use it on the bitmap with the alpha channel in front like in the tut i keep getting the white lines =\

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:03 am

CDK908 wrote:ea time i use it on the bitmap with the alpha channel in front like in the tut i keep getting the white lines =\

What?

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:38 am

Could somebody help me with a Battle Rifle model? I am using a mac and I need the first person and third person model views. I also need the bitmaps for it.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:50 am

It's illegal to send the model and textures. You can extract models using ADI and bitmaps using Entity.

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:55 am

i have no idea how to do that or what that "ADI" means.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:59 am

ADI is an application.

You can find a guide for extracting models and textures here.

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:03 am

I just want to clarify this incase it was not clear, I am using a mac, and i am trying to import the battle rifle model into singleplayer maps.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:08 am

Whoops, I hadn't noticed that bit of your post. Apologies for that.

So are you trying to do renders, or attempting to do a mod for the game? If not rendering, then the question doesn't belong in this topic.

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:11 am

I was posting here in the hope that somebody was doing a render of the Battle rifle and was able to supply me with the model of it, and I apologize if this post is in the wrong topic.