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

[SimDing0]

Ambient light on your surfaces will work nicely in outdoor areas (and you basically always have to do this with SpeedTree), but doesn't do so well on indoor scenes, where you need to light only the interior of a hollow object. Experiment with attenuated lighting, since that tends to give more realistic results, and doesn't affect the whole scene.
And if you're using shadows, they're basically always going to look awful until you make them transparent and give them soft edges-- by default, all shadows in any version of 3dsmax seem to be totally black and overly distinct.