bonestructure
11-06-2008, 06:00 PM
I don't know anything about the layer passes and all in Max 9 and Vray. Here's what I'm doing. I have a scene split into two parts. The main part is a basic street scene, buildings etc. I'll render it out at a large format using Vray and GI and all that jazz.
Then I'll take my secondary scene, which is mostly just the street, for shadows, and a character, against green screen, matched lighting, GI and the whole same setup. Then I'll composite in Photoshop most likely.
Or, I may set up the first render as the background image and render the character on top of that. IF I do that, is there a way to optimize the background scene to have it look it's best?
I'm unsure of how to go about it really. I'll also be rendering occlusion passes for both. After my computer fried because of an improperly wired socket in the house, my sister replaced my computer, but it only has a gig of memory, and when I try to place my character in the main scene, the computer crashes as soon as it gets to the character, so I'm forced to do it this way. I'd much rather do it all at once, but it's not going to happen. At least not until I can afford the horrendously expensive DDR1 memory to boost it, or until I can score a decent computer. Never having had a decent computer, I've always had to do workarounds. So basically, I'm hoping someone can give me some ideas about the best way to do this.
Then I'll take my secondary scene, which is mostly just the street, for shadows, and a character, against green screen, matched lighting, GI and the whole same setup. Then I'll composite in Photoshop most likely.
Or, I may set up the first render as the background image and render the character on top of that. IF I do that, is there a way to optimize the background scene to have it look it's best?
I'm unsure of how to go about it really. I'll also be rendering occlusion passes for both. After my computer fried because of an improperly wired socket in the house, my sister replaced my computer, but it only has a gig of memory, and when I try to place my character in the main scene, the computer crashes as soon as it gets to the character, so I'm forced to do it this way. I'd much rather do it all at once, but it's not going to happen. At least not until I can afford the horrendously expensive DDR1 memory to boost it, or until I can score a decent computer. Never having had a decent computer, I've always had to do workarounds. So basically, I'm hoping someone can give me some ideas about the best way to do this.