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:

 

[Mtommi Tam]

I have follow step on page 1,but,my software version is different,so,i can not understood,now,i change to 2009 version,same page 1 pictures,and i try again to follow the step on page 1,wish don't meet problem for me,

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/9195/008gd.jpg

http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/2005/009fcj.jpg

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/4517/011fdr.jpg

 

[Mtommi Tam]

Just follow step,and also stop on this:
How to do? only wheel...

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/9118/012oab.jpg

Jarrod:
I hope you do the Acura all the step and cap all pictures for help,
I am very really want learn this to beautiful pictures.thank you very much.

 

[Jarrod Crossley]

The version of Max or brazil does not matter.

On the material editor (when you press M) you want to be checking the other material spheres for "missing materials" for example from the last pic you showed check the other material sphere see if ther are any that say "missing Material" they are the ones that want altering:

 

[Jarrod Crossley]

Open the scene in yur version of 3ds Max and set the renderer:


Now the scene it open and its just in one view to make things easier on our self lets have all the views available to us:


now we have more views available lets open the material editor (pressing M):


As we can see there are no "Missing Materials" in sphere one so lets look at Sphere 2:


As we can see there are one or two "Missing Materials" so lets start with the first one:


Left click where it says "Missing Material" and this will open the that material:


So now lets change that from a "missing Material" to an actual Material and see what it changes. Again we are clicking where it says "Missing Material":


Now this loads up the Material Browser. Now because we don't know what this material is attached to lets give it a "Standard" material. So pick "Standard" from the list:
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And hit "OK":


Well thats not changed anything so lets try another "Missing Material". Again left click where it says "Missing Material":


And from the Material again left click where it says "Missing Material":


And again from the Material Browser lets select "Stanard":


And hit "OK":


Now something has changed the car body has a material:


Now we can change this material from a "Standard" Materil to a Brazil material as per the original tutorial:



We keep doing this till all missig materials have been replaced and the scene it setup with all the correct mateials and textures. We can then save this scene as is and then we can alter the Textures for the body for ones that we have created at any time.

 

[Mtommi Tam]

Wow!! Thank you very much !! Jarrod.

Just follow the step and page 1 step and made my first photo,hehe,not good picture,i need try more and learn,
http://i55.tinypic.com/126ftzn.jpg

I have 1 question,the size can not big than 640x480? How to save to big size,example 1024x768 or 1920x1080

And can you made all step on here for help,i want to know more.thx

 

[Jarrod Crossley]

Because your possably using Brazil Rio, which in a sence is a demo version of Brazil you will be unable to produce bigger renders. You have two options one buy the full version of Brazil or expand the size of the image via a paint program simlar to Photoshop.

From your pic I can tell you have not made or applied the Brazil light material to the light box above the car this will add light to your render.

 

[Mtommi Tam]

How to expand the size of the image via a paint program simlar to Photoshop ?
Can you help?

 

[Jarrod Crossley]

Via Photoshop:

Load the image in to Photoshop then in Photoshop go to the "Image" menu and select "Image Size" or just press ALt+Crtl+I.

 

[Mtommi Tam]

Ok,i will try this,thank you very much Jarrod

 

[Steve Bean]

ummm where are the render sceens saved ? i cant find them or select a path for it to be saved? what am i doing wrong

thx

 

[Steve Bean]

look like im proper doing something wrong looool

does anyone mind adding me on steam and maybe joining my pc with team viewer so you can show me how to render the sceen please really bugging me now and i bet im missing something so simple my steam page is.....

http://steamcommunity.com/id/redtoothaa/

thx in advance

best regards

 

[Steve Bean]

Then theres some final reder setup changes so from the menu select "Rendering" then "Render Setup" and then hit the "Renderer" tab and make the following changes:

then at long last you can hit render:


Now goto "File" "Save" allow to overwrite and your scene is ready for you to make changes.

this does not work for me can anyone please help i have followed all instruction but cant get this to work

please can anyone help me

best regards

 

[Steve Bean]

ok forgot all that looooooool i finally got it to work

but now my problem is this my picture looks rubbish lol i followed every step bit by bit but looks nothing like your guys stuff lol

 

[Steve Bean]

any1 browsing this thread

i seam to have managed everything except the 2 skins in 1 sceen

how do i do this i tryed changing the body but it just chages both cars to the same skin

if i drag and drop after selecting the skin it just goes silver and advise?

 

[Jarrod Crossley]

Quick guide for two of the same car. Select the main car model using the "Move" tool hold down Shift and drag. This will make a duplicate of the car. A query window will appear asking if you want an "intance or a copy" select Copy.

From there you should be able to apply a new material to the "Copy" cars body thus allowing you to apply new textures.

 

[Steve Bean]

thanks i shall give it a bash thx jarrod

 

[Steve Bean]

um i cant get it to work the shorcut to copy the cars worked fine but when changing the skin i get the same skin on both cars any ideas m8

 

[Jim Cole]

You have to copy the material and put a different skin in the new material. Once that is done, you have to assign the new material to the place that you want it to appear. Easiest way to do that is left click drag the material from the material editor and let go when you have the pointer over the body part that the material should go on.

 

[Steve Bean]

how do i copy the material ?

if i right click on the circles with the material i can select copy but then there is no paste or i dont understand where to put it soory im a noob and only learning

 

[Jim Cole]

You can left click and drag the material you want to copy to a spot that does not have a material set yet.
At minimum you would need to copy 2 materials, the glass and the body paint.