Need help for basic outdoor lighting!

#1

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!

#2

try ‘mr photographic exposure control’ instead.

#3

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:

#4

Hey pardon me…
Found this nice lighting (mr and v-ray) tutorials… The author uses max 7.

Lighting Tutorial by Hao

hope this helps

Rybeck

#5

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.

#6

Rybeck

Is that link still working? I seem to get a broken page.

#7

hamilton3d,

It seems like the OP is updating his/her website, and the tutorials are temporarily down.
Here is his/her current URL (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

#8

try this:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://lakehao.home.comcast.net

#9

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