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CapnPanic
05-23-2003, 04:38 PM
hey folks,

just finished writing a new tutorial yesterday. This one is a 2-part deal, the first part dealing with creating your own HDRI map using a mirror-ball, a digital camera, and Hdrshop. The second part is about properly using that hdri in max (both for lighting and for reflections) with the aid of the splutterfish HDRI import plugin (free) and the brazil public test version (also free).

Just a side note, but my site host has gotten a little flakey recently, so if anyone has a problem accessing the tut, just wait a little while and try again :)

anyhow, if anyone gets confused at any point, please let me know so i can clarify things or change anything i screwed up ;)

the first part (hdri creation):

http://www.hello-napalm.com/tuts/tut_hdri.html

and part 2 (hdri use in max):

http://www.hello-napalm.com/tuts/tut_hdri_pt2.html
SimonReeves
05-23-2003, 04:45 PM
nice job me hearties [cap'n]

I gotta gets me one of them balls sometime.....

summer soon
:thumbsup:
Xilica
05-23-2003, 04:51 PM
w00t w00t

your tuts rock man, just finished the tire one :beer: :beer:
jyrgen
05-23-2003, 06:32 PM
Good tut :thumbsup:
hugodog
05-24-2003, 01:06 AM
Thanks. Good tutorials.
tyio
05-24-2003, 07:43 PM
Could you explain your frame material setup ?
dmak
05-24-2003, 07:53 PM
nice tutorial!

dmak
CapnPanic
05-25-2003, 02:59 PM
thanks guys, glad this is helpful :)

tyio: i'm not sure what u mean by frame material.
CapnPanic
05-25-2003, 03:04 PM
just noticed that there is a tut sub-forum now. mods, feel free to scoot this thread over to that forum if it pleases you :)
tyio
05-25-2003, 03:05 PM
frame it's the car material; what setup of diffuse, reflection of the car do you use !!
CapnPanic
05-25-2003, 04:23 PM
i assume you mean on the mini in the pic at the end of the tut, and that is actually the brazil car paint shader. but using a brazil test material or raytrace material, the main point is to use a falloff map in teh reflection slot. then set the falloff type to fresnel and the set the IOR of that fresnel to about 2.0-2.5 or so. that should give you proper reflections.

also note that you can download the max files for the demo scene in the tut, which have similar materials already set up :)
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