Maxigo-07 v.02 (update-21.April 2007)

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:36 pm

OnoSendai wrote:Kosmo... the reflection looks minimal because the of the bump map, i think.
Try testing without the bumpmap.

You're right. I did a quick test and even the slightest bump kills the reflections big time. Why is that so? Bad choice of bump texture?

Suvakas

Kosmokrator · Post by **Kosmokrator** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:38 pm

or....a bug....?

Post by **OnoSendai** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:39 pm

It's because ur bump is too strong, making the surface more like a lambertian material. Turn down the b parameter.

Kosmokrator · Post by **Kosmokrator** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:26 pm

ok...fixed.......but here i have some problems to tuning the dof in my scene.... here is the comparsion with the 0.6 version....

an other problem is the rocks inside the glass.....where is it??i have the same ior for glass and water in booth scenes?any ideas please...???
0.7 edition

0.6 edition

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:27 pm

well.. i can't say much without seeing the scene. Missing rocks may be a transform matrix bug

It would be good if you could upload the max scene file to somewhere (of course if it is ok by you to share your art) and PM me the link. I could then take a look at the scene and see what is happening there.

About the DOF...how big is that aquarium and what units do you use?
You could try unchecking Auto-Focus under Camera parameters and place the camera's target manually.

Suvakas

[edit] you can also try to export geometry into different formats and see if the rocks appear or not. Try exporting to XML for example..

Kosmokrator · Post by **Kosmokrator** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:41 pm

ok the dof problem solved its the scale of the aquarium....thnx...but about the rocks?i think is indigo prob not the exporters....the rocks exported well but dont seens into aquarium....

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:50 pm

Kosmokrator wrote:the rocks exported well but dont seens into aquarium....

That's not enough. If the position matrix is wrong, then they may be misplaced to somewhere else in the scene and not into aquarium.
What geometry format do you use? Did you try xml?

Suvakas

Kosmokrator · Post by **Kosmokrator** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:56 pm

i use 3ds expord but already i have try the xml format.....i make some test with ior of water...if i set the ior to 1,03 (!!!) the rocks are showed but not corectly becouse of the refraction i think.....is that correct? suvakas i pm u later for the scene link to invest it...ok? thnx

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:03 am

well.. if the rocks show up in some case, then it is not a matrix problem. Might be Indigo or material issue.

Don't know...

Suvakas

Xman · Post by **Xman** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:23 am

suvakas wrote:hmm..strange.. The link works fine here

Suvakas

True, I can't download,
Can you release a download here?
http://www.live-share.com/

thanks you

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:37 am

hmm..live-share is giving me some kind of error message and just keeps Initializing upload. Maby someone else can make a mirror?

Suvakas

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:24 am

Hey Kosmo, I think I found where your problems is (and it's not exporter bug

). You had both precedence values for glass and water set to 10. As far as i understand, then your water turned into glass because it had the same precedence as glass. Try to use a higher precedence for water.

I used 20 for this image:

I don't know what the right values are though. I only know that 1 = air.

Suvakas

Kosmokrator · Post by **Kosmokrator** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:30 am

man u r perfect!!!!thnx a lot!!!!

Kosmokrator · Post by **Kosmokrator** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:12 am

hey suvakas any new exporter update??

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:48 am

Kosmokrator wrote:hey suvakas any new exporter update??

Actually there is - i just added some small things like custom image name and possibility to open the rendered image in max frame buffer (may be useful if someone wants to save into different image format after rendering..or even during the rendering)..and some more small things i don't remember.
Will add the link soon...

Suvakas