3D MAX & You

[Jarrod Crossley]

So your looking at producing your own renders, You've got one of the many version of 3d max and your wondering whats next.

Well here is some of the ins and outs :

First off you'll need Spluterfish's Brazil you can download the demo vresion known as Rio from there site here:- SplutterFish, LLC: Home

Next you'll need the 3D max car scenes for Race07 and those are availble via:- Portal - raceskinning you'll have to register there.

So now you have evrything you need to get started. All you need to do now is load up a scene and go right?

Wrong due to the fact these scenes where made with a differant version of MAX and a full version of Brazil, Youlll have to make some alterations to get it to look the way you want.


So you load your scene and it looks like this:

Terrible isn't it well first off we need to set up are renderer so on the top menu bar find "Rendering" and from the drop down find "Render Setup" click on that and you'll get a menu:

Now due to the fact we are using Rio we are restricted to image size (1024x511 max) so for now select 640x480. Now on the same menu scroll down tp were it says "Assign Renderer" This is where we are going to be telling it to use Brazil Rio. So click on the three little dots:

and from the drop down menu select Brazil:

 

[Jakob de Boer]

Hi guys .

3dsmax is briljant, but you need to be almost a rocket scientist to get it all.

Im having problems with windows. that is Car windows..
Usually i just leave them in their standerd material .
just putting on the windows exterior file and im ok with it.

But als my renders get better and better i want them to replace with a Vray Material .

So which should i choose?
Now i take just the Vray Mat.
And fill in the Difusse color with the Ext.TGA. which i make out of the PSD.
Then for Opicity, i take the Alpha Layer and save it also as a TGA.
But what else should i do to get the best result .

 

[Jarrod Crossley]

If your using Vray you want a Vray Mat with a high reflect and a high IOR also for the difuse texture you dont have to always save as TGA you can use your template stright off. As for the alpha you can just save it as a Jpeg.

Other things to consider with vray is to make a studio lighting scene which is pritty easy to do.

 

[dogstar060763]

Just wanted to say thank you for this amazing thread. I've never even begun to understand using Brazil for rendering until now. I'm speechless at the result of just following this tutorial:

THANK YOU - You would make a fantastic teacher for this stuff!

 

[Ihab Abbas]

I use 3d max 9 and its brazil and I try to render Doran car for GTR Evo and I got this no windows no headlights !! pls help

 

[Jarrod Crossley]

Looks like you have some mixed textures on what would be your windows. What you could do is this simple trick.
Press M to bring up the material editor and slowly go to each material sphere and remove the diffuse texture and see what changes in the render window. If the texture is remove from the car body put it back. If uts removed from the window replace it with the window textures.

If that does not sort it let me know.

 

[Ihab Abbas]

Sorry Jarrod I can not understand what do you mean as I am a totally newbie and I followed the perfect tutorial but something wrong with me.

Here you are some more info about every thing:

1- When I start 3d max 9 I got this msg and I click ok:


2-Then I got this msg and I click also ok:


3- I start with open the Doran scene file:


4- Then the next window appears, and I click open:


5-After I click open I got the next look:


5- I try to follow your tutorial by setup the render issues and then get to material by clicking "M", but I noticed that there is only one sphere in black and all other spheres are standard and nothing else there like the next pic:


6-I noticed that when I move with the arrow over the black body of the car that it says chassis and wheel and rear wing but no window or other things,! I dont know if that what should be or not, while I was doing the same work with Seat there were parts for the car when I moving the arrow!!

7- back to the Doran car here, after I do every thing I got the pic you saw in my previous post, so I dont know where is the problem, but I already saw some members did rendered the Doran for the GTR EVO using the same scene and the same materials.!

8- I end up with the next result:


Waiting your advice and ready to give more info.

Best

 

[Jarrod Crossley]

Going from what you have stted the 3D scene for the Docan only has one set material sphere. This leads me to belive that this material sphere should be a multi/sub. So instead of selecting max material from the material browser you want to be lloking for mulri/sub under standard materials.
This will give you a material sphere with many layers in a scene and each layer will require its on material and texture.


To help with the process of what goes where:

On each material level select the material



enter it and from there alter its diffuse color as you change the color you should notice what part of the car is changing to that color thus heping you know in advance what testure should be applied.

 

[Jarrod Crossley]

Shout if you need more help!

 

[Ihab Abbas]

ok mate I got that after play around with the subs, but all in just one sphere, then what should I do

 

[Jarrod Crossley]

see below!

 

[Jarrod Crossley]

Well now you know what goes where! So its a case of applying the correct type of materials like Brazil mats for the body and so on and applying the correct extures for the corrasponding part of the car eg body.tga to car body.

 

[Ihab Abbas]

see below!

See what mate? you mean the post above or a pic or something?

Also When I try to apply texture it goes for the all body, so how to separate the body parts? and how to make windows and the cockpit appears?
sorry for the newbie questions!

 

[Jarrod Crossley]

the see below was because I had a double post! just recived your PM will PM you back!

 

[Jakob de Boer]

Does anyone know how to get 4 different car models into one render?
for instance : i open the bmw 320si model in to 3dmax.
Get al my materials right.
Now if i drag another 3d model into the screen , and select MERGE. I lose the materials for the second car.
So i've made al the cars correct in a different 3dmax file.

But if i merge them i lose all the materials on those cars

So how can i save a 3dmax file so it will take al those materials with it into one scene..

 

[Jarrod Crossley]

The easy way is to alter one car in its scene and then save it out with the custom materials attached. Then merge it into your final scene.

For example I load the 320Si apply my textures and save the scene as 320si_1 then I load a honda and alter its materials and save as Honda _1. Now open final car scene and import merge the two new scen car models and away I go.

 

[Jakob de Boer]

Thx.
That far i was , i made all the cars first in their own Max file.
Then put all the textures and max files into one project folder.
Now it gets all the material and textures!

 

[Jakob de Boer]

 

[Jarrod Crossley]

Very nice, Small thing would be to alter your light box from white to match the same colour of the sunlight. That way it matches the background image.

 

[Jakob de Boer]

Good idea!
Result:

 

[Juergen]

RaceDepartment Downloads under Race On and Misc.

ummmh...cannot find your upload...maybe i`m blind... ^^

I got the same problem with missing dll`s

I`m using:

Brazil 2.1
Autodesk 3ds Max 2010