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nitingarg — 3DS Max Caustics Tutorial
Published: 2007-03-18 02:03:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 22392; Favourites: 102; Downloads: 1414
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This is probably the first ever tutorial written by me. I hope you all like it and have a good time caustic-ing..hehe
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Whhoa~Thank you^^ It's really helping me do my assignment XD
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It doesn't work with me
I have 3dsmax 2009 and in my render settings i have a lot of mental ray, which one i have to choose?
I have follow your tutorial but all render is black and my object doesn't appear...
I know nothing about 3dsmax so i am unable to find the solution by myself.
if you or someone have the time to answer my question, it could be realy nice
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Having a problem getting tat glowing shadow plz hlp
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that glowing shadow was most probably done in post. i made a copy of the layer and applied gaussian blur and changed the blending mode to screen.
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wut material did u use for the floor plane? my object looks fine but the plane just reflect way too much of my hdr environment map...
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m using a standard shader with reflection/refraction set to zero (Black)
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This was helpful and it worked! Thank you so much!!
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I have just one question... how do you get your shadows so nice and soft? I tried everything and they still wont come out nice
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Doesn't work.
Irregardless, it was a nice read.
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Glass lume, mental ray and photon basic is incopatble, why?
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because you dont have mental ray turned on as your default renderer. Go to render settings.
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Very useful tutorial..
I used it here --> [link]
Thanks a lot
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Heh, took me 2 tries to get this working...
You need to tell people that a normal spotlight is different then an MR one, as many people don't even know there are 2 separate lights!
Aside from that, good tutorial!
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btw i think the tutorial is good for the materials but the light setup could use more discussion.
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has anyone checked to see if the light was set to mentel ray shadow map under the shadows dropdown?
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try increasing the photon count...and enable CAUSTICS in object properties.
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when you've added the light, remember to check the box "shadows on"
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i followed every part ... And i didn't get the "promised" result.
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dang D:..............................................
>_> am i doing the mr renderer part wrong>_>?
i did...
f10 -> common -> assign renderer -> middle 1 -> mr render >_>?!?!
cuz i dontsee the yellow icon... xD... plz reply ^.^
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im having the same problem with the shadows, can you please help?
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nice... Ive been looking for something like this for a while...
thanks!
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im having trouble getting the shadows from the torus knot to become softer, its still giving me crisp shadows. any hellp?
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Its a nice tut, but it just REALLY isnt working for me...
I have no idea why, either
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nice and easy tutorial, as for the first time it's great.
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i always wanted to create such effect,
Thanks a LOTA <3
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ur welcome bro..although pls note that u have to increase the Average Photons per Light to about 90,0000...happy caustic-ing
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