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Jit3d
11-16-2007, 10:36 AM
hey friends!

i need some help for lighting a basic outdoor scene of a house.. im using 3dmax, mental ray with a daylight system.. the thing is.. even when i tone down logarithmic exposure control.. the scene dosnt have those nice detailed shadows in it.. can somebody give me some advice on what to enable and general light settings?

thanx!
rybeck
11-16-2007, 02:41 PM
try 'mr photographic exposure control' instead.
Jit3d
11-17-2007, 07:40 AM
Rybek,


isnt that in 3dmax 2008? i am working with 3dmax 8 so i cant us the mr photographic exposure control. It's not that i get a horrible render, its just that its very flat and generally doesnt have those detailed raytraced shadows.. :hmm:
rybeck
11-17-2007, 05:11 PM
Hey pardon me...
Found this nice lighting (mr and v-ray) tutorials... The author uses max 7.

Lighting Tutorial by Hao (http://home.comcast.net/%7Elakehao/tutorial_intro.htm)


hope this helps

Rybeck
Jit3d
11-20-2007, 11:19 AM
rybeck,


thanks, nice link :thumbsup: . it seems that using regular MR omni's and spotlight works great. I Was using a daylight system..which i just couldnt get right for some reason.
hamilton3d
12-13-2007, 02:04 AM
Rybeck

Is that link still working? I seem to get a broken page.
rybeck
12-13-2007, 02:53 AM
hamilton3d,

It seems like the OP is updating his/her website, and the tutorials are temporarily down.
Here is his/her current URL (http://home.comcast.net/%7Elakehao/index.htm) (as of 12-12-2007) I checked from 3d total.
If you are eager to check the tutorials you just missed, I'd rather e-mail him/her to ask about them.


JK
decon
12-17-2007, 08:02 AM
try this:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://lakehao.home.comcast.net
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