3dsmax Gray Render Setups

DJPygon

<div class="IPBDescription">What do you use?</div> Well, I'm just wondering, in a short breakdown, what each of you use for you gray (untextured) model renders.

I always have that stock look, and it annoys the **** out of me. I've never been much of a light/render guy so I've never found a good setup. Hell, I'm still just learning to model.

Anyway, help would be nice. Thx.

Chrono

everyone now uses the render style darkeh uses we all jacked it from him <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> go check the modeling contest the last few pages he posted it up

esuna

I just apply a default material (with the ambient colour changed to what i want) to my objects (I use white with a white bg colour, looks nicer imho) and throw in a skylight. Check the "cast shadows" box on in the skylight's properties and i use different amounts of rays for different renders. If i'm just doing a quick render i only use 5 rays (nice and quick to render) but if i'm doing a render to show off to people i use 15-20, which looks nice enough.

<img src='http://dump.creativeblank.com/conceptrender3.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

Then you end up with a render like that. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

vee

if you have 3dsmax, download VRay by Chaos Group.

You can get pretty good renders with it once you know how to use it.

<a href='http://www.vrayrender.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.vrayrender.com/</a>

DJPygon

thx esuna -- will look into that.


Vee: i'm not too interested in high quality renders, and have had bad occurences when I start adding new renderer's on to max5. I might check it out at a later point tho, thx for the link.