Apartment 3-D, My journey in 3d Options

[Sir-Kill]

This is a pic of some dragon eggs.
I started with an ellipse added a metal texture to it, then rendered it, cloned it twice and rotated them individually. simple enough.

what I learned to day;
then I added an environment. a screen shot I had from a game and placed them on to the map. (I know, it looks like they are floating)

This post has been edited by Sir-Kill: Sep 29 2006, 05:40 PM

[Yacomo]

I tried my hand at lighting today, it is not going well I guess I'll have to read some more
but here is a stair case with 2 omni lights colored in a red with small diameters. and one spotlight.

why is it when I never add a light it always comes out worse than with no light?

Don't know how to do this in MAX, but try to set an ambient value to your surfaces or to the scene overall. I normally use plain white set to about 15%, but of course there is plenty of room for experiments