spittle Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I can work out how to create various point photometric lighting ect with the ones that ship with max but how would you create diffferent types e.g strip lighting or flood lighting? Also anyone know some good websites for specifications that I can plug into Max? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 did you mean solidworks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spittle Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 Oops, wrong forum! I meant to post in the Max forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cad64 Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Also anyone know some good websites for specifications that I can plug into Max? Specifications? You mean plug-ins? Have a look here: http://www.maxplugins.de/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spittle Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 No I mean a site with a load of general specifications to input into Max's photometric lighting so that it represents real world lights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I can work out how to create various point photometric lighting ect with the ones that ship with max but how would you create diffferent types e.g strip lighting or flood lighting? Take a look at these tutorials: http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/glowingmaterial/ http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Create-Neon-Light/34325 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 No I mean a site with a load of general specifications to input into Max's photometric lighting so that it represents real world lights. Sorry, don't know of any sites like that. You might want to look for books or DVD's on lighting techniques. Are you rendering with Mental Ray or Vray? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spittle Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 I know how to create lighting that looks nice but I'm after something more accurate. See the attached JPEG screengrab from the Max help files - you can punch these specs into Max's photometric lighting to get a more physically accurate result. One of the engineers at work was talking about us possibly designing the lighting for a project where I've produced a 3D model. I've beeen studying lighting at college (not with CAD) and am thinking perhap I could use Max to aid the design of the lighting arrangement for this project. I'm just trying to do a bit of leg work before proposing this to work and I currently don't know what manufacturers we'd use so want something a bit more general and there arn't many in Max's help file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spittle Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 Rendering with Mental Ray, cheers for having a look though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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