From the monthly archives: September 2009
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Frosted Mirror

By On September 29, 2009 · 9 Comments

update / 04-nov-2009 added material details

After making a quick test for a frosted mirror material (sort of frosted glass in front of a mirror) I couldn’t resist making a nice studio render with heavy post production :)

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Masks : Essential tools for your CG workflow 1/2

By On September 28, 2009 · 10 Comments

update 1-oct-2009/ thanks to Peter, I’ve learned that Multimatte workd by default with object IDs. The topic has then be corrected/completed

update 27-oct-2009/ added some info on the “Affect channel : All channels” option of a material

When it come to archviz rendering, one of [...]

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Displacement and Gamma issues #2

By On September 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Seems that the solution was far more simple than I thought in my previous post :

Just use the Gamma Override when you load the bitmap in max and I’ll work like a charm !

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Displacement and Gamma issues with V-Ray

By On September 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

This might intrest thos who work in Linear color mapping with a gamma curve (like the so called Linear Workflow LWF with 2.2 gamma correction). I recently bumped into an annoying side effect of putting an input gamma for bitmap files other than 1.0 in Max : Diplacement maps gets corrected aswell…

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