3DS Max Tutorial. Lighting & Rendering

While i've been busy bullet pointing what needs to be researched for my content management assignment like problems, competition and improvements. But I thought i'd do a tutorial on what i've learn't from the virtual enviroments assignment and hopefully using this method in some wayto improve my final efforts.

1.

Make a plane and a teapot. Chuck the segments up on the teapots modify menu, although this isn't important.

Rendering this will give you this horendous effect.




1.5.

click the top view and put a skylight in there somewhere! very important. Its under the lights tab in create. Will instantly improve your render but make sure you "rendering (top of the screen), advanced lighting, light tracer..." and click render from there. Only need to do this once, from now on just push F9 for rendering.




2.

select the teapot and push m. This brings up the materials menu and from here, play a little with the "specular level" and "glossiness" to give it some shine.




3.

Then you should see a few tabs below, click the maps one and tick "diffuse color" and "reflection".




4.

Click the "none" tab next to "diffuse color" and it brings up a new window. Click "Fallout". Then go back by clicking the small back arrow above the "fallout parameters tab" (small icon, second one in from the right).




5.

Do the same with "reflection". Click none and choose "fallout" but this time when it takes you to the next window after, click the second "none" box down (the one shown in the picture below) and click "raytrace".




6.

Now play with the black and white box's in both, "diffuse color" and "reflection". Choose whatever colours and experiment by rendering.




7.

The end result should look something like this!