yup agree...3dmax is the easiest to learn...easy UI... got the best user reference and tutorials provided with the software...you can start from there...once you complete the tutorials gerenti no hal...

the works that i did (top of previous page) were done with P4 1.6 256mb gforce4 128m...choky at times but still stable...

This post has been edited by aaeem: Apr 9 2005, 09:13 PM

aaeem
hows ur mca ?
share the video link here also lah

Thanks aaeem, gonna go get the software soon. I've been wanting to learn 3d for so long but just didin't had the effort to do it.

hoooh... finally finish read through all the pages.. nice work

if i just want to produce 3D pictures instead of 3D moving renders, do I still need a powerful rigs?? coz at the moment I can't afford to get a better machine...

how much for gnomon training dvd?

yo dude.. wat sup ?
my comments soo 'mature' meh? guo jiang ...
you know y i gav such a mature reply to the comments?
that guy used "This is to all of you. All your 3D work are bad enough with poor resolution"
This kind of person donno how to giv mature comment and kill all ppl in one boat .....
izzit anyone post thier pic here, then ALL of thier pic are bad enuf wif poor resolution?

BTW, for those hu wanna post 3d works/arts go to
3dlinks.com, a good site to post and get C&C


This post has been edited by BooMer86: Apr 10 2005, 02:35 AM

to: littleway
if u want to put some effect...then u need a better rig

to: BooMer86
about that site....i dont think i wanna post my work there
bcoz im not good enough to post there
my work still below from their standard
so maybe after 1 year from now...then i post my work there

a decent rig is all you need...software and hardware are just tools...power is nothing without substance...great artist will use whatever tool at hand and make the best of it anyway they can...IMHO...

go to get BOXX workstation
decent enuf to do 3d things

made this yesterday (got some free time), in 6-7 hours from a simple sphere to completion (lighting, texturing, rendering)

just a simple character modeling, no fancy lighting or anything, n there's only two texture used (the eyes n the scar...)
what u dont see are'nt model....

rendering : 37 minutes
software : 3ds max 7 , (default scanline renderer)
light : IESsky


not the best, but, yeah.... just, ok i guess....


-e.j-





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Test render
MR
GI+FG, 2.34min

This post has been edited by BooMer86: Apr 12 2005, 03:12 AM


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my old artwork..... cant remember when i made it... around
december, if im not mistaken....


-e.j-



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all my artworks, i only used default scanline renderer....
not that i dont like other renderers.....
its just that, i love to play with the (scanline) settings....


-e.j-

what settings do you guys normally use, when you want to get the photorealistic effect?
or 3rd party software?
feel free to elaborate

my rendering and lighting always turns out looking fake and unrealistic...

they're many ways to achieve PR rendering...the key concepts are...

-Global Illumination/Radiosity
-Skylight/FinalGather/Lightracer
-Image Based Lighting/ High Dynamic Range

try look up in the user reference of your software or try do a search on google or cgtalk...

regarding the settings...depends on your renderer...but basically it deals with "number of photons", "photons energy" and "sampling"...

for me ... as u can see.. most of my render used mental ray as my render... mental ray is the most accurate GI render compared to other app like brazil r/s or Vray.. but the speed is slow...
Mental ray came wif 3d max studio 6 and above.. ( if not mistaken)
i dont really know that my lightning is realistic o not cos my monitor here so dark( despite i rev all my brightness n contras setting to highest)...
if u use scanline... make sure u don light ur scene wif one light only
go do some fake GI... cos u hardly notice a real life place that the shadow are that pure dark if light source is near by..here my 2cents.....

Alternatively, I also frequent this other forum CGMalaysia. Not as active as CGTalk, for sure... but it's a local community.

hi 3d expert here,may i know what is multi threating rendering????what is that actually???any sample??

sorry for the noob question... well i can't really know how to make a line to a 3D object.... For a simple example a straight line into a cyclinder. (in 3DS Max)

This post has been edited by littleway: May 2 2005, 03:31 PM