3D MAX & You

Jarrod Crossley

Rubbin Racer!
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:
 
The scenes got removed. As for missing dll's you should still be able to load the scenes within max. Just keep cliclick OK!
Eventually you should get to the car in the scene even though you may find that the model is black.

It is only black because the version of max and brazil is differant from the one that was used to make the scene. Therefore you have to replace what may be classsed as "Missing Materials" and relink all textures.
 
Problems rendering

Got a slight rendering problem, I appreciate the help and the tutorial that got me this far!

If I use Brasil, the car isn't glossy.


Full » http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/5693/43864721.png

If I use one of the Mental Ray presets, I get glossy but there's some small artifacts

Full » http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/6774/14194498.png

Also I can't seem to get the texture upon the front bumper "Splitter". It's supposed to be glossy black but appears flat. See second image texture.


Full » http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/8329/21772666.jpg


Full » http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/9749/40068113.jpg
 
Well, you can always take a vray scene and replace all the materials with brazil ones... As for the compatibilty, i'll upload my 3dsmax scene, see if that works...

How simple/complicated would that be? Only downloaded trial version the other day and I'm not too knowledgeable with 3d programs! I tried the Seat model which is made for Brazil and it couldn't find the brazil plugin so I must have done something wrong. Getting a new PC soon so will just try again from scratch, thanks anyway!
 

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