http://area.autodesk.com/forum/ The Area en Copyright 2012 2012-05-17T02:18:00+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/object-id-color/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/object-id-color/page-last/#When:03:14:07Z hello everyone Does anyone know how to check object ID color?? Because I want to specify a color ID for just black and white , but after I changed several ID numbers , still got vary colors , I looked up 3ds max help , but not too much in this part , Is there any chart which has colors for each ID numbers ?? Please help , thanks in advance. 2012-05-17T03:14:07+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/trying-to-rendergetting-unknown-error/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/trying-to-rendergetting-unknown-error/page-last/#When:19:27:48Z I just jumped from max 2009 to 2013 (old computer died, new comp is win 7 which is not 2009 friendly) I am trying to render a simple project (that is due tomorrow). and I am getting an "unknown error" It is trying to render using backburner. just tried uninstalling backburner 2013 and installing bb 2012.1.0 and now it says "error retreiving config file". I used to be able to just render without backburner by unchecking the network render box...where the #!$% is that checkbox so I can at least render locally 2012-05-16T19:27:48+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/backburner-and-3dsmax-stand-alone/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/backburner-and-3dsmax-stand-alone/page-last/#When:10:29:02Z Hi, I have a 3dsmax Stand Alone license and I need install 3dsmax on a render farm (4 nodes) with backburner. When I install 3dsmax on those nodes is necessary activate it? How? Thanks 2012-05-16T10:29:02+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/mr-sky-portal-transparency-query/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/mr-sky-portal-transparency-query/page-last/#When:00:51:11Z Hi guys I was just wondering if anyone else had the following problem. I'm testing 3ds max design 2013 and have a simple scene (newly created in 2013 not from 2012) with a box room and 2 window openings in walls. Daylight system added and 2 mr sky portals on exterior of windows (arrows pointing in), mr photo exposure set to 10 (interior daylight scene). Using Mental Ray renderer and everything renders, light gets into room ok etc it's just that I can't get the mr sky environment map to be seen through the window openings. I'm doing exactly as i did in 2012 version by changing the mr sky portal transparency from white to grey - which worked before but now it doesn't. Window stays either white or black depending on how I alter the transparency colour. Thanks in advance for any comments. Kind regards Chugg 2012-05-16T00:51:11+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/rendering-camera-info-for-import-to-ae/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/rendering-camera-info-for-import-to-ae/page-last/#When:13:08:35Z Hello and thanks for your time, What I want to do is provide After Effects exact locations on where an effect should be applied to my rendered frames? So there is a ball in the scene that is moving about, and in AE, I would like to place a lens effect or glow on it but I need that effect to move with the ball. Is there a way to render some kind of a helper object animated in 3dsmax that AE will recongnize in which I can easily link my effect to that animated helper object? K 2012-05-15T13:08:35+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/every-time-i-render-3ds-max-crashes-im-only-rendering-a-few-objects-i-dont-understand/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/every-time-i-render-3ds-max-crashes-im-only-rendering-a-few-objects-i-dont-understand/page-last/#When:09:30:11Z I just watched the how-to video on substance materials, so I decided I'd add some substance materials to my spike platform. The spike platform I made is just a rectangle box with a bunch of cones coming off of it that simulate spikes. I attached all the spikes to each other in one editable poly, attached the cones to the rectangle, and then detached the rectangle to element because the materials got screwed up when I attached the two. I want to copy the spike trap to several places in my room, so that's why I attached them. If I shouldn't have let me know, but in any scenario my problem is with rendering anyways. The how-to video showed using displacement, bumps, normals, and a diffusion from a substance map. At first I used all of those at once on my rectangle but it kept crashing so I shortened it to just a normal and diffuse from the substance. The spikes just have a plain black material color on them, and I isolated 1 trap in the selection. Every time I render [i][/i]just[i][/i] this much, it crashes. I have 4 GB of memory, so I should think that would be okay. When I render it with the default renderer without changing anything, it just shows a black screen with nothing on it. So I switched it to "3dsmax.scanline.no.advanced.lightning.draft" and then it either sometimes shows a really really distorted, low quality version of the selection or just crashes. I'm very confused, does anyone have any ideas? Let me know if you want screenshots of the material slate, the scene, or anything else. Thank you for your time. Edit: I'm on Windows 7 32-Bit using 3DS Max 2013 Student Version 4-Core I-7 CPU @ 1.6 GHZ; 4 GB Ram, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500/5100 2012-05-13T09:30:11+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/zbrush-vs-mudbox--is-autodesk-holding-back-the-potential-of-mental-ray-in-max/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/zbrush-vs-mudbox--is-autodesk-holding-back-the-potential-of-mental-ray-in-max/page-last/#When:07:39:26Z Straight up question here: Does Autodesk have any intention of further designing Max to work in harmony with other 3D apps? At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I must ask, if there is anyone from AD reading this, is there a chance of your developers taking a more open approach in the way Max handles content from software such as ZBrush? To be a bit more specific, I have been having difficulty getting vector displacement maps from ZBrush to render properly in Mental Ray using the "Vector Displacement" and "SSS Fast Skin + Displacement" shaders in Max. Having pretty much exhausted every possible configuration in order to get an accurate result I have come to the conclusion that Max currently is probably designed only to use VDM's from Mudbox. I would have thought the situation would improve with Max 2013 and Mental Ray 3.10 but unfortunately there has been no change in this respect. I assume there was at one stage some sort of dialogue between Autodesk and Pixologic regarding the "GoZ" function so I can't understand why there has been little progress made since then. Now that ZBrush is becoming more the industry standard for 3D sculpting and concept design (I know Mudbox has it's strengths too) I can only see that it would be in Autodesk's best interest to be more compatible. Please AD make a move to provide better interoperability between these two great applications. All we really need for this to work is an upgrade to the above mentioned shaders in order to make Mental Ray work properly with ZBrush vector displacement maps. Thanks for your time. 2012-05-12T07:39:26+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/strange-black-spot/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/strange-black-spot/page-last/#When:07:44:41Z hello everyone I work on my projects recently, it's about to demonstrate constructing method to my company's client, I use 3ds max 2012 (64-bit) to animate the procedure, the animation is a sequential targa files, after the rendering completed , I checked out every single image , found some of them have strange black spot, so I just re-rendered the strange black spot image file (only the each single frame one at a time), the black spot gone, shown as 01 and 02 , the render setting shown as 03,04 and 05 , here I explain my scene setting a little more detail , because my camera moving along path , so I set project points from positions along camera path , interpolate over number fg points set to 100 (the preset is 30), no caculate gi since it's an outside scene , and not reuse fg and gi , filter type set to mitchell and bucket to 128 (the preset is box and 48) , and I just use arch_design and autodesk material library to assign object , and simple pf to simulate welding effect plus glow and glare shader , the scene is about 6 million polys and verts, but fps still about 80 (shown as 06), my machine is i7-2600, 16 gigabyte ram , quadro 2000, win 7 (64-bit), and only single machine do the rendering session (no net or distributed rendering). Because the strange black spot is square , looks like the mental ray can't caulate the fg points correctly, I supposed my render setting about bucket is too high , so I set back to 96 to render the animation is targa sequence again (shown as 07) , 3ds max still gave me the black spot in different frames(shown as 08) , but as long as I re-render those images each one at a time , the black spot disappeared , it's only the solution I can figure out now , does anyone have the same experience ?? what's going on in 3ds max or mental ray?? and how to solve the issue?? please help me, thanks in advance. 2012-05-11T07:44:41+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/object-renders-black-at-higher-fg-settings-larger-version-of-object-renders-fine/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/object-renders-black-at-higher-fg-settings-larger-version-of-object-renders-fine/page-last/#When:14:49:47Z Hello, Could anyone tell me why the smaller version of an object with the same material renders black when rendered at higher FG setting? The objects looks fine on draft renderings and even on diffuse render elements at the higher FG settings looks correct. The material is a multi-subobject material with Mental ray materials. Rendering with Mental Ray in 3dsmax 2013. I attached the results I got. The objects with issues are the small bottles on the middle table and on the second from bottom shelf. The object is created with lathe modifier applied to a spline. Same method of creation and material is used on the larger bottles. Thank you, Laszlo 2012-05-10T14:49:47+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/sibl/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/lighting---rendering/sibl/page-last/#When:08:06:13Z Anyone else use Smart Image Based Lighting method? I found it very quick and easy to use (once you get the hang of it) but it does have a few weird "bugs". Just wanted to know how many people of used sIBL and what they think of it? 2012-05-10T08:06:13+02:00