Global Illumination?

[qu2k]

yeah version 5 introduced the skylight and advanced lighting

you could use a 3rd party renderer like brazil or vray too. not sure if they work with version 3 though

[Raenz]

Thanks for the reply.

[mouj]

Howdy !

You can still use some global illumination in previous versions of Max, look up scriptspot (http://www.scriptspot.com) and search for SkyDome i think.

Basically you need to create some geomery (like a dome or sphere) and then create a light at each of the object's vertex, then tweak the lights using your Lights Lister tool.
You can do it manually or use the above mentioned script that will do it for you on created geometry.

To furthermore complement to effect, you can then create colored lights, according to your objects and materials, that will let you simulate the "color bleed" phenomenon that also happens in GI.

I would guess that Brazil, VRay and fRender work with the R3.x builds, and the HDRI plugin is also available for R3.x from splutterfish (http://www.splutterfish.com/sf).

hope that helps !

mouj

[ToddD]

I don't know if some of these are 3.1 compatable, but you have a bunch of choices to simulate this effect. E-light, trinsica area light, HDRDomelight, Domalicious(love that name) and I think there are a couple of others as well. Max 5 is the only version featuring the light tracer, you are correct. Also try script spot there may be more. These are all pretty much lighting rigs that snap a light to vertices on an object, they are all very effective solutions, I know because I have a slow PC and these scripts(as well as light tracer and occasionally the brazil public version) help me achieve a similar effect. Here are some links, again check for version compatability.

http://home.wanadoo.nl/r.j.o/skyraider/

http://www.3dluvr.com/subagio/domelight/pano.html

http://www.trinisica.com/sub_download.asp?lv=2&mode=3

http://www.chuggnut.com/scripts/domelight/domeligh.html#here:

[Raenz]

Thanks for the info..plenty for me to check into now, and experiment with.

I appreciate the replies.

[ssyed]

I suggest u check out Luminaire its a GI plugin thats free .. get it at http://www.maxplugins.de

[ZeBoxx]

There's more GI solutions for max than for any other application :
http://www.pointzero.nl/renderers/

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