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Thanks to Jacinto from Metro Cubico Digital for sharing these excellent renders produced for Hyde + Hyde Architects. I always love seeing your images made with my HDR skies so please keep them coming.
Sky used: 1941
Sky used: 1554
Sky used: 1313
Sky used: 1313
Sky used: 1554
Sky used: 1554
Quick 3dsmax tip.
If you need to enlarge the frame of a camera without altering the perspective of your original composition, try this:
Divide the original width of your frame by the new width, which in my case was 1200/1600 which gives 0.75. Then multiply your camera focal length by this ratio to find what the new focal length should be. For the example I'm using my original focal length was 35mm, which multiplied by 0.75 is 26.25mm.
Set your camera to this new focal length, change the format accordingly and you have effectively added width to your composition.
Thanks to twitter.com/VisualEyesMedia for this handy tip!
(There is also a script for this purpose www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/overscan but it doesn't work with vray cameras)
I'm not usually one of those people who resists change in computer software, but I do when 'new' is both less intuitive and also slower. So this post is really just a reminder to myself of what to do to revert the 3dsmax select dialog to the old style one, and the material/map browser (within the material editor) as well. Enjoy!
C: > Users > *username* > AppData > Local > Autodesk > 3dsMax(Design) > 2013 - 64bit > ENU > en-US > defaults > MAX.vray > Currentdefaults.ini
[Scene Explorer] SelectByNameUsesSceneExplorer=0
(If you aren't using vray then the path will be slightly different)
C: > Users > *username* > AppData > Local > Autodesk > 3dsMax(Design) > 2013 - 64bit > ENU > plugcfg_ln > SME.ini
UseOldMtlBrowser=1
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And another thing while I'm at it. I prefer having the file menu visible rather than just as an icon, luckily this is very easy to do, just customize your UI, click the menus tab and drag the file menu back where it should be like this:
Thanks to Pixela I think it was who originally helped me with this!
It's that time of year again!
Hope you all have a lovely festive period and get some deserved time away from work.
UPDATE: Some facebookers were asking about the plywood tree model, so I decided to share it. Let me know if you make anything nice with it!
max 2010: http://cl.ly/0u322v2p0V2R obj: http://cl.ly/123n0B0I3B1Z
Some of my favourite images from a recent commission for Hornung + Jacobi Architects.
full set as always on flickr
HDRi skies in this scene: 1433 used for the green wall shot and 0839 for the rest
Before I start making new skies, I decided to go back and work a bit more on all the old ones. If you bought any of them, you can now log in to 3docean.net and download the updated versions.
Changes include:
Enjoy!
EDIT: labelled version as requested.
EDIT 2: Any new skies won't be happening anytime soon I'm afraid, I'll probably wait till I have 9 ready so that I can offer them as a pack for a reduced price straight away.
EDIT 3: Lots of people asking how to get the updated skies. Just log into 3docean as normal, click on the downloads tab and you will see all the products you have bought from 3docean, then just download the ones you want. All my skies on 3docean have been updated so you will get the new version when you download.
I'm VERY excited to be part of the upcoming State of Art Academy workshop again! (and alongside such talented people). Book early to avoid disappointment I'd say.
Details here: Academy Day 3.
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Some more nice new work in my inbox this morning, this time from Mouton Burger (Mot Renders). What is a little bit different with this work, is that it was done using Cinema 4D. Good to see that my HDRi skies work just as well in c4d as they do in other packages.
The sky Mouton used was "1941 Dusk Blue", and here is a guide to using HDRi skies in cinema4d together with vray:
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General: In c4d project settings, LWF should be disabled and the color profile set to sRGB Vray Color Mapping: Check the LWF tickbox and set the gamma to 2.2
1. Create cinema 4d arealight 2. Add vraylight tag to it
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3. set the intensity to 1.6
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4. Go to Area light tab and set the Area type to Dome
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5. Add your Sky hdri in the texture slot and set the color Profile to sRGB
6. Insert the hdri in a Filter shader and set the gamma to 1.0 (or 0.75 if you wan't to boost the strength of the sun like this tutorial) 7. Add a vrayphysicalcamera tag to your camera in order to control exposure, depth of field etc.
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Just a quick comparison between rendering the quick way (A) and the sloooooooooow way (B). Guess which method I always use?
A: In vray's color mapping section, Sub-pixel mapping is ticked, as is Clamp output (set to a value of 1.0).
B: Both Sub-pixel mapping and Clamp output unticked.
Even if you aren't trying to get this particular lens effect, I still recommend rendering unclamped for trees (and many other situations), it just looks so much more realistic. When I get a chance, I'll render the same scene without DOF to show you the difference.
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C: clamped, and sub-pixel mapping ON D: unclamped, sub-pixel mapping OFF
Even without DOF, I think it trees still look much more realistic when rendered unclamped.
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