help with 3DSMax 6

[MINDA]

Ok. I have made my model. Skinned it. And now its time to render it. But when i want to get a cool shot of the front of one of my guns. There is WAY too much shadow, so the gun becomes pitch black. I was wondering how i get around this and make an extra light or something?

Also, i notice some people have models rendered so that they are on like, a desk or something with shadows and bullets lieing around. Are these done all in 3dsmax or is there some plugins or something that u need.

Thanks

 

[Short_Fuse]

3d max has a huge amount of lighting features avaliable just play around with them all.

Shadows: If you want shadows you need a light source and something for the shadow to reflec on. So make a plane lay your model on it, put in a light aiming at the model right click the light properties find shadows and tick ON.

Clay render: I just answered this in another post A clay render is just the way it looks, i like them cause of the shadows everywhere makes the model look cool Put a skylight above your model, turn on shadows and plane below your model and render, might take a while though

 

[MINDA]

alright, im a bit nooblar at 3dsmax so, how would i go about putting a light in?

 

[SidewinderX]

under one of the menus-> lights, choose omni or skylight and dlick in the screen.

If you choose skylight, make sure you goto "render->advanced lighting-> and turn light tracer on" then render it out.

 

[MINDA]

Danke.

ill have a look around 3dsmax

 

[IchI]

go to the top and click render (windows window buttons) then go down to enviroment in the list that drops down, inside there they will be a coloured pannel saying ambient. Turn this up and it will light up your whole sceen. What it does it basiclly makes the set value for the lowest amount of light u can have in your screen, so that u do not have anything completely black

 

[MINDA]

that sounds easier. i tried spotlights, but they suck cause the darken the rest of it. so i just deleted em and it went back to normal. ill try ur way cause the skylight i made was shithouse.

cheers guys.

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

Read your 3D Studio Manual.

 

[Ti133700N]

omnis are probalby the easiest lights to work with, well to get a decent lightning... If you want something alot better, the new radiosity lights in max 6 are pretty good, but you have to know what you are doing...

If I were you i'd try with 3 omnis, one main lightsource at the front, right side of your model with an intensity of 0.95, another one (front / far left side) intensity of 4 and one behind / top with intensity of 3 and contrast 50. Should work fine with any models.