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3D Studio Max
Window Lighting Questions
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14 Dec 2006Jupp, some questions to my project, i am rendering with scanline at the actual project and want to have an light effect for the windows in my project!
Here the wished light effect, please not that i want to use Scanline Renderer!
http://www.chaosgroup.com/stuff/flipsid ... ipside.htm
Also i wish it to be light overbride, like you would use a very high skylight in vray
Here my actual Scene:
http://www.holysoft.de/data/Projects/SF ... Tisch3.jpg
Thank you for your help mates -
14 Dec 2006you wanna use scan line to do GI, that's what you saying?
the way i think to do it use a ray tracer with bounces, y don't you use mental ray which is much more powerful, and it comes with 3ds max too.
but it's slow, not accurate and the solution is really noisy,
here's a 5 minute test i did to demo, i really don't think scanline is the way to go
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14 Dec 2006would using "radiosity" instead of "light tracer" be better? i have no idea, i'm asking.
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14 Dec 2006o yeah, yeah, totally forgot about radiosity,
(been stuck with Vray for too long~~, can't live without it)
my bad
and thx for the reminder
still, none of them is really as good as vray, at least that's what i think -
14 Dec 2006There are ways to simulate it with scanline, but it's not easy.
Mental ray can be faster, much more accurate and cleaner than vray, you just have to learn how to use it properly.
I would suggest just going scanline, but trying to simulate it with the standard lights that max have. If you can acheive it, then your render times will be impressively faster than using a GI system, but it is much more difficult to get, GI is basicly a click click done system in most render engines whereas setting up your own lighting takes a hell of a lot of tweaking.
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