... 510Creating an Editable Mesh from a Displacement Map 511Additional Mapping and Material Features 513The Bottom Line 519Chapter 10 ã Using the 3dsMax Camera 521Understanding the 3dsMax Camera ... emphasize parts of your design for presentations.Mastering Autodesk3dsMaxDesign 2011 is also an Official Training Guide for Autodesk s 3ds Max Design 2011 professional certification exams. ... per-formance of 3dsMax Design. Material Explorer The Material Explorer introduced in 2010 is a hierarchical display that allows you to review and manage all materials in a scene. Unlike the Material...
... data that 3dsMax evaluates to display your model. The order in which that data is evaluated is known as the object data flow. 3dsMax sees objects as a stream, or flow, of data in a particular ... shortly.How 3dsMax Sees ObjectsLet’s take a break from the tutorial for a moment to understand how 3dsMaxDesign 2011 sees objects. When you create and edit an object in 3ds Max, you are creating data ... modifier stack, you saw an example of object data flow. You saw that the order in which modifiers appear in the stack affects the shape of a box. 3ds Max also applies this data flow to the overall object...
... Boolean tool developed with 3ds Max. This tool is at least 15 years old; it was part of the first release of 3ds Max in 1995. ProBoolean was a more powerful plug-in available for 3dsMax that has ... type to Architectural for the new material you are making. Note that changing the material type changes the available parameters and roll-outs for the new material. 9. In the Physical Qualities ... You’ll want to size the image plane so that it’s to scale—that is, so that the distances represented by the image are the same as those in the 3dsMax model. You can approximate the correct scale,...
... stack. The glass appears in all of the appropriate places (see Figure 5.31) because it now has two surfaces that both have normals that face outward. 8. Save this file as Mysavoye-ground -max. max.You ... update the 3dsMax terrain model when a change was made to the AutoCAD DWG file. You can also use the File Link Manager with floor plans to help maintain design continuity between AutoCAD and 3ds ... walls so that when the drawing is imported into 3ds Max, you can apply separate materials to the interior and exterior wall objects. By default, 3dsMax converts AutoCAD objects into 3dsMax objects...
... 391Suggested Additional ReadingMastering Autodesk3dsMaxDesign 2011 is designed to give you a fundamental understanding of how to use 3dsMaxDesign 2011 to create your visualizations, from ... the advanced features of the mental ray renderer, a Daylight system, and photometric lights to calculate global illumination as a way to accurately calculate indirect (ambient) lighting in a ... creating a finished render-ing or animation involves a repeated cycle of rendering, adjusting (lights, materials, and camera settings), and rendering again (and again) until you’ve reached a...
... files from a web page into 3dsMax or AutoCAD Architecture. Use this as an alternative to material libraries within 3dsMax and as a new way to communicate with Architectural Desktop (ADT) users.Resource ... materials by setting many different parameters and accessing several different material-specific map channels that can each hold a unique map to help define a material’s appearance. The overall appearance ... access the Magnolia material. The materials in the Slate Material Editor are not automatically displayed in the Compact Material Editor. 3. On the Compact Material Editor, click the Material/Map...
... the Material Editor as an alternative way of importing image maps for materials. And as mentioned earlier, you can import 3dsMax ( .max) files through the Asset Browser. Try importing a chair ... stream of motion. Each picture is known as a frame.Technological film-making standards vary by geography. North America, most of Central and South America, and Japan use what is called the National ... have 3dsMax rename the merged ãumaterial to maintain it as a unique material. 5. Click Use Scene Material. The chair displays at the origin of the file.Choosing this option causes 3dsMax to...
... scene as an animated file. You can see the animations as reactor_CamTop.avi and reactor_CameraFloor.avi, available on this book’s web page. 10. Save your file as MyCondo_ReactorComplete .max. If ... Windows Media Player opens and plays back the animation. If you have another application set to play back AVI files, that application will open and play the AVI file.As you can see, the animation ... Originally, reactor began as a third-party plug-in that could be purchased to add physics simulation capabilities to 3ds Max. As often happens, it was licensed by Autodesk as part of the software...
... between the cam-eras and the camera targets will appear to float out of the final composited image, and objects farther away than the camera targets will be pushed back into the image frame. Also, objects ... LineApply final gathering Final gathering is an optional step in calculating global illumination that can reduce the appearance of unwanted variances or rendering artifacts in the lighting.Master ... fog, and fire. 3ds Max has a set of features, called atmospheres, that can add the appearance of airborne par-ticles. Real-world lights cast light into their surrounding environment, and you can...
... Know 3dsMaxDesign 2010Welcome to Mastering Autodesk3dsMaxDesign 2010. Autodesk3dsMaxDesign 2010 replaces Autodesk VIZ 2008 and benefits from the development of its sister product, 3ds Max, ... of 3ds Max Design 2010.Material Explorer The new Material Explorer is a hierarchical display that allows you to review and manage all materials in a scene. Unlike the Material Editor, the Material ... the 3dsMaxDesign 2010 icon on the Desktop.ãuChoose Start ãu Programs Autodesk Autodesk3dsMaxDesign 2010 3dsMax Design 2010.You’ll see a variety of components in the 3dsMax window...
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