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 :)
Posted: September 29th, 2009 under 3dsmax, cg, material, vray - 3dsmax.
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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 the first thing to learn is to create good masks to retouch materials or objects individually in photoshop. If the most popular alpha mask allows you to cut out the entire rendering from his background, other type of masks (based on elements or objects) became essential for an efficient workflow in archviz.
I remember times where I did a second rendering with the same point of view, where every material was replaced by a self-illumated conterpart in order to save one or several DIY “masking pass” …a time consuming method, either on material editing or rendering. I even remember cutting out glass masks for buildings directly in Photoshop. Brrrrr :)
Posted: September 28th, 2009 under 3dsmax, cg, photoshop, tutorial.
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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 !
Posted: September 10th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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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…
But here’s how to fix it !
Posted: September 8th, 2009 under 3dsmax, vray - 3dsmax.
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