How would you render this....?

Gotmilk
228 posts

03 Apr 2006
HI have am doing a project for my school end semester. I am creating simple animation. Basicly i have a bridge and water. But i want to crteate photorealistic animtaion with that. But right now i am learning modeling and animation so basily i dont know anything about the rendering.

The best result i came up was this

I know its cheesy. It basicly has one omni light with shadows enabled.
I am asking you guys the smart ones who do wonder stuff with 3dmax. cough ..cough tyson cough ...global cough ...cameron to help me out.

I have uploaded my file at
http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=66434

It would be nice if you tried to play with this scene to achieve good outcome. and post a picture about it here. And complete guide wich light and stuff you used or wich renderer you used.

I want to make this project good for my school and i just dont know anything about rendering.

If you would help me out on this one i would be very grateful to you.

Thank you for your time...
g3org3
355 posts

03 Apr 2006
I'll just start off with this before i look at the scene file. First of all the scene definately needs an enviroment. the water material needs a bit of work. The waves are reallly really big.

For rendering you could use mental ray with GI and a water shader for the material. And use a Mental ray area omni for the sun to get some nice soft shadows.

For animation, the water material in mental ray can be animated, also you can animate the noise modifier you have on the plane already. The way i would do it is just animate the displacement in the material.

Which version of max are you using?
g3org3
355 posts

03 Apr 2006
Well I quickly looked at the scene and added a few things.

I made the red material a raytraced to make it more like metal, a water(lume) material in mental ray, a simply gradient ramp for the sky, a MR area omni a skylight with the same map that was used for the enviroment and then just added a bit of gi.
Gotmilk
228 posts

03 Apr 2006
this is great. I will try to make something similar when i get home.

I am using max version 7

But the thing is i my scene is in the night. So what do you suggest would be best way to illuminate moon???

I love how you made this scene.

EDIT. By the way could you upload the scene somewhere so i could see what exactly you made there. And try my own trial and error experiements.
g3org3
355 posts

05 Apr 2006
Alright, well I am using max 8 so i don't think you can open my scene. but heres a quick screen shot of the materials that i used.

the shellac was used for the metal and the water material is a mental ray material with certain shaders added to the slots.

For the metal just change the specular and glossiness to about 120-150 for spec and like 50 or so for gloss, a falloff set to frensel in the reflection slot in the raytraced.

the water material is pretty simply, the settings in each shader are pretty self explanatory.

If you want any help just add me to msn, if you have it, or email me.

FOr the enviroment have a dark blue for the sky, and stars. For the moon you can use a glow(lume) in the surface slot of a mental ray shader. You can map a spere or disc or something with a picture of the moon. With glow(lume) and Final gather it will produce light. Or you can use an MR area omni and set the radius of the area light to about the size of the moon.

If you have any questions just post here or talk to me on msn, or something.
Gotmilk
228 posts

05 Apr 2006
Thank you

I will need time to sort this thing out. Alot of new information. When i get stuck i will post my problem here

Thank you again
Gotmilk
228 posts

20 Apr 2006
i played around with this scene a little. Getting to know all the materials

i came up with this

ocean material is mental ray. for surface i used water surface (lume)

for bump is a ocean lume . volume is a submerge lume.

i havent touched the displacment because i am not sure what it does (expcet that it adds 3 minutes to my frame render)

for light i used single omni light with shadows enabled.
but how do u make some kind of falloff into water mirroring the bridge.

Any other suggestions are welcome. just want to make scene look better

EDIT:

I made some updates i like this one better. It has some more oceanic feel to it

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