I'm using the metallic preset under the arch and design for mental ray and i've added a scratch bump map. It shows perfectly on the material editor but doesn't show up at all on the actual rendered image.
I've attached the image to show you.
I mouse scroll a lot and because my right hand is old and shaky it hits the screen edge frequently and an unwanted menu always pops up.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to create a bump map for use in 3D rendering (3ds Max). This is the diffuse map i've created:
Problem is, no matter how much i fuss around with exposure, curves, hight pass filter, this is all i'm getting:
As you can see it is very "jagged" and looks terrible when rendered. I tried to clean it, but despeckle doesn't do it. I need something clean looking, like this one:
What is the proper way of creating this kind of bump map?
Even after Service Pack 3, bump map still crashes Photopaint instantly.
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I have shifted the offset from 0 cm to see if it moves the position, but all I seem to be able to change is the scale of the bead.
I was reading up on spot colors. And was confused about a term used
The passage:
Quote:
You can also add an extra spot color (or bump plate) to a four-color CMYK image.
what is a bump plate?
I've been trying to generate a speed bump in Smoke. I have a reference clip from FCP and I have to rebuild it in Smoke. What is the best way to do that?
If I have the clip in it's original lenght, and match the in and out points with the ref clip, then insert it in the timeline, so it's already sped up and the correct length, and then access the TW soft effect and start playing with the keyframes in the animation tab, i get totally messed up results... (and it doesn't matter if i have LOCK BOTH or LOCK OFF selected, it still doesn't work).
So how can i create the speed bump, and still have the same first and last frame like in the reference clip and also keep the same duration as the reference?
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i have sculpted some details in sculpt layers and i have a bump map in paint layer, which i have created with my diffuse map. Now, I want those sculpted details as a bump map or a normal map. Ok, If i export as a normal map then now i got 2 files in my paint layers (1) normal map and (2) bump map which i already have. Now, I want both details in one single map. normal map or a bump map.
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How can I take an image and squish an end so it distorts up and down like it is being being pushed upon?
Ideally I would like to use the nVidia normal map filter plugin - it's for Photoshop, and although, apparently, you can use some photoshop plugins, this one does not seem to work.
First question - is there a way to use the nVidia plugin?
Next - is there a Corel way?
I have created my own greyscale heightmap images and I can export red channel for alpha. Then I flood fill the red channel black and the blue channel white and export the RGB as the colour part. Creating a dds image gives me a pseudo bumpmap
BUT
Whenever I use this kind of bumpmap I get the effect I want on the aircraft models, but for some reason, "my" bumpmaps seem to remove the polygon smoothing of the 3D models so that when I "fly" the aircraft, I actually see the polygons instead of the smotthed mdl surface.This photbucket link shows what I mean.
The left hand image shows the original bumpmap on the original model. The next image shows modified artwork on the same model. Then I have change to a "D-i-Y" bumpmap and the last two show that although the desired bumps are there, I now have the wireframe polygons visible.
I'm trying to create a custom stamp in Photoshop. Done it with a 16 bits colorspace, saved as TIFF with the required options from the official documentation.
Why do i get a 'grainy' result, even painting with a 100% strength white color ? It happens only on a bump layer. On a diffuse layer, its ok.
Do the bump layer use a 8bits color space ???
i downloaded a 3ds max file from the internet and i would like to copy an object inside it to my own drawing. my drawing is using mental ray renderer while the object from the downloaded file is using vray materials. is there any way to convert or else to render the object so i can render it in mental ray?
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how to get it back?
I have made several renders in the Scanline renderer, I've tried to capture as much detail as I can squeak out of it, setting it to the Catmull-Rom filter, Light Tracer, Max Star 2.5, and the like. It creates nice renders for game assets. However, if I switch it to Mental Ray, it seems that a lot of the details get washed out. Are there any 'base setting' to capture every nook and cranny better?
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Updated my POST due to no replies.
Jennifer O'ConnorMastering mental ray ®Rendering Techniques for 3D ... is generally required for all 8-bit images saved as JPEG and PNG, and not ...... I found that most people where confused about PNG being 16- bit. Now I see I am doing good to keep the resolution and pixel size down to 8 bit.
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How is it possible for Mental Ray to give me an out of memory error on a Windows 7 professional 64-bit machine using the 64-bit Max Design? I have 4GB of physical memory, but whenever a program needs more memory Windows allocates virtual memory to it, so theoretically my memory limit should be my hard drive space. However, when I try to render my scene with a little less than 200k polys with a displacement map on it (trying to get grass), the task manager shows 3dsmax.exe using up to 4.3GB of commit memory (4gb working memory), then it crashes.
I've set Windows to use up to 16gb for my pagefile, so it seems like mental ray isn't actually 64-bit since it crashes right at the 4gb limit of a 32-bit program.
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we're currently doing an animation of a walkthrough of an airport where we're getting these strange artifacts when rendering after creating the final gather pass.
We're using only mr daylight system to light the scene, to get an all white soft-shadow render. Only three types material, diffuse white, glossy white and glass (all mr A&D). The glossy material gets blown out and we receive strange red and green artifacts here and there in the model.
We use mr Photographic Exposure Control.
I am searching for the "mental ray message window" in the 2012 version. ok i've got the German version, but there is only a "rendermeldungsfenster"(render message window) where only the errors are shown. is there any other possibility to see how many final gather points are in the scene?
greetings, mredl
I saw something about being able to render faster using network rendering for mental ray, but I'm not sure where I've seen it, nor do I know how it works.
If this is possible it would be great, since a scene I tried rendering had an ETA of about 51 hours. So I turned off ray traced shadows, seems to have lowered the rendering time quite a bit, but I'm still gonna end up with about 26 hours of rendering. If network rendering could bring that time down, that would be great.
I just tested some of my scenes from Max 2011 in 2012, and rendering is in average about 30% slower than in 2011.
I am attaching pictures for reference. It is obvious that they are 100% identical, there is no difference quality wise, but a significant difference performance wise. I will add some more result comparisons on more complex scenes to confirm the problem once they finish rendering. I am willing to provide my scenes to Autodesk if interested to solve this issue ASAP.
when use a photometric web light, it's dispaly a message:"Failed to open lightprofile file...."
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I use it very often for previews and sometimes for final rendering, because it's faster to activate (compared with NetRendering and split scanlines)
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Am rendering it with mental ray, and with the Volume Light deactivated, it takes about 30 seconds to render the whole frame. When activating it rendering less then 1/4th of the frame takes 4:30 minutes.
Now this is not gonna work well when I'm gonna render a movieclip, so I'm gonna ask the following: Is there a good, fast alternative for that volume light?