My First Ture Render

Triforce · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 7:06 am Post subject: My First Ture Render

A few days ago I got fed up with Gmax's inablity to produce renders, so I went to google looking for an answer. Luckly, I found custom scripts and utilities right off that let you render Gmax scenes as if you were using 3dsMax. I present to you my frist render with shadows!

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NCM Helipad Render Beta.jpg

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NW4ever · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:49 am Post subject:

nice piece of work you got there. keep them coming!

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The DvD · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 2:27 pm Post subject:

It's brilliant.

Guest · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 5:02 pm Post subject:

really much better, well done Smile

Kravvitz · Commander **Joined**: 25 Mar 2003 **Location**: USA

excellent! Cool

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zdflamer2 · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 3:23 pm Post subject:

wow

JESUS CHRIST, THATS DAM AMAZING, really good job

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Fremen5 · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:51 pm Post subject:

wow, better than I could ever do with GMAX!

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MadHQ · Commander **Joined**: 07 Nov 2003

I know this is an old topic. But what program did you use to render that? If you have a link that would be nice.

Because I use gmax all the time. Only cause that the only 3d modeling program I can understand.

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Triforce · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 2:53 am Post subject:

I used a combo of two programs. First one is a plugin for gmax that exports your scene into a .xml file. The second one is a free program called Yafray ( Yet Another Free Ray Tracer) that takes the .xml file and exports to TGA.

Link to Plugin: (Be sure carfuly read the walk-through, it took me a few times before I got it right)

http://kupio.lunarpages.com/~tru7h02/halo/gmax_render/

Link to Yafray: (download windows installer version)

http://www.yafray.org/

Some things I found out while using it:

- Do not give your output .TGA filename numbers, this will cause a crash during export in Yafray, so use letters only. (CAPS are okay)

-Pathlight and Global Photon (Global Illumination Setings) like to crash during export in Yafray, if you have these on and get a crash, just tun them off and it should work. I am unsure if Hemilight does this aswell.

-Anything without a texture will not be rendered

-If you have the Renegade Game Pack for Gmax, do not use its texture editor, your meshes willl not export if using them.

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MadHQ · Commander **Joined**: 07 Nov 2003

cool i will have to check that out.

thanks!

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