Automatic Rendering

[57_D_Smith]

Sounds very intriguing. Considering I'm still learning how to manually render paint schemes and not doing very well I might add. LOL

 

[DERacing]

From what I understand these render's will be scanline! If it were me why waste my time on a scanline when I can come here and have smoke,DTR,Onion or someone else do a sweet brazil render? That's just my thought.:skeptical: I would like to see a good scanline here if it can be done. Show me the money shot boss! Prove me wrong... Was that just a challenge? Ha...guess it was!

Honestly, I think that the sim community is using brazil to the point of it being overkill. By building proper materials under the packages that come standard with Max, doing a little research and work with max's lighting fixtures, I feel that a brazil equal or better render CAN be achieved.

I have been a proponent of getting away from Brazil for sometime. The whole reason that CBCTech and the rest of us even started using brazil was to solve the global illumination issues that we thought max had issues with at the time... or we were all just too damn lazy to try to figure out a good lighting solution. But that was under Max 3... YEARS AGO! Damn, I'm getting old! LOL

I am the last one to try to stop progress or increasing the knowledge of anyone in relation to max. That said, I think we need to get the true basics down before the "His looks good, but I can do better" mentality of plopping in a flat, hitting F9 in a premade scene and saying you can operate max completely consumes the members of the sim world.

Things have changed quite a bit from back in the old Sierra/TLS days. Nowadays, people tend to want to be first to release rather than first to be accurate. I am always striving to improve on the over 500 scenes I have in my library. And it seems to be a never ending struggle.

I'll step off my soapbox for now. But I just wanted to air out an opinion that I have long held since the subject had come up.

A killer scanline,man i have not seen any scanline since these old things at MG

I'll reserve my judgement for when the sites poping out the renders.

:yes: And that has been quite a few years back that we did that render.

 

[DERacing]

Let me look... I have some old scanlines I was working with from a while back somewhere...

 

[TOUGH]

Joey I think you are correct my comment goes out to those who continue to not have knowledge and use other's work and take credit. They can simply change a template and get pray's for something they had nothing to do with but render. Hell anyone can download one of my scene's or your's and render it. They have no clue how it works or how to change anything. I rarely use brazil myself either and am always perfecting what I have Max is a huge program with hours of fun built in...lol...and I mean hours. These guys need to stop using the same scenes over and over and create their own stuff. The net has huge sites for information regarding 3ds Max. So why not use them. You and I have done way more than our share of max scene's so yes I guess we are getting old and being might I say the grandfathers of the sim world. Hell half these guys probably don't even know us...LOL. I am intersted in seeing what comes out of the auto rendering myself. So I guess we will just see.

 

[Ten0r]

LoL Tough. If I had time to work on scenes, I'm sure my site would be a great hit. I started doing the auto rendering on my site and it flies when it's working. In the month that it's been auto-rendering, my site has done more than half the number of renders that it took me 8 months to accumulate.

Now that school is done for me, it is my intention to start making a few more scenes for the site. If you'd like to donate a few scenes, I'd be grateful but I don't expect anything from anyone anymore.

EDIT: btw, I don't use max script for my site, but my site does do brazil renders. I haven't messed around much with 3ds max and will over the summer to learn because if scanline is as fast as I believe it is, I would set it up for brazil and scanline rendering.