In this tutorial we delve deep into the Global Illumination and Environment system featured in Turtle 4.1
It takes some time with any rendering software to get to the point where you’re confident in setting up a beautiful render. This tutorial will attempt to provide you with lots of shortcuts that can help you get really nice renders in Turtle and lay out a good workflow for lighting many different types of scenes. You’ll also find in-depth technical notes on a lot of the components and concepts included in Turtle’s Global
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This brief handout gives a short introduction to MAYA. Only the most important and basic commands are listed here. For further information and special knowledge to all the commands you can temporarily lend a MAYA manual at the Lynn studio. For any other questions contact us.
In this intro several abbreviations are used:
LMB – Left mouse button
RMB – Right mouse button
MMB – middle mouse button
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This tutorial serves as a rapid overview of Autodesk’s Maya software. The 3D production pipeline can be broken down into several distinct activities and skill sets - we will cover all of these to give you a sense for building an entire scene from start to finish. The biological topic will be to create a visual depiction of how calcium chelation can affect cadherin flexibility. The tutorial is divided into 5 sections, each of which focus on an aspect of the 3D pipeline:
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This tutorial explains how to export a 3D Studio Max scene from 3DS Max version 3. Before you start this tutorial, ensure you have installed the Virtools Exporter plugin for 3DS Max. The Scene in 3DS Max Load the sun_room scene located in the scenes folder for this tutorial into 3DS Max. When the file is opened it may indicate that certain textures are missing. If so, simply find the path to the textures in Map_RT. Here is what you should see: Activate Display, Polygon Counts - you will see that the scene contains 474 faces. Note a certain number of specific characteristics before exporting this set: - The vertex lighting: Select the wall_Small object, for example, and you will see the attributes of the Vertex
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This tutorial explains how to export a Maya scene including animated objects with simple keyframes. It uses the Virtools plug-in directly loaded in Maya. The Scene in Maya Load the “mountains.ma” scene in the tutorial’s “scenes” file into Maya. To do so, place “mountains.ma” directly in your Maya “/scenes” directory. Then place the 4 textures in “/sourceimages”. Here is what you should see: Activate Display/Polygon Counts to see the number of faces in the scene, i.e., 474 (quads or triangles). Note a certain number of specific characteristics before exporting this scene. - the vertex lighting & the triangulation.
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The Lightwave 3D renderer is one of the most widely used in Film and Broadcast production because of its quality, workflow, and speed. It can now do image-based lighting due to a number of architecture enhancements in the 6.0 and 6.5 versions. One of these critical new architectures is a full precision rendering pipeline from top to bottom. Another critical ingredient is a global illumination model. Global illumination simulations produce more accurate images of lighting in scenes, by considering more light sources than simple illumination models.
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Introduction to IBL 1:40 Global illumination overview 2:15 - High dynamic range images (HDRI) - Capturing real-world illumination - Illuminating synthetic objects with real light - Making Rendering with Natural Light 3:00 Break 3:15 Rendering synthetic objects into real scenes Making Fiat Lux 3:40 Image-based lighting in commercial production Lightclouds, X-Men, and James Brown 4:15 Image-based lighting real objects and actors 5:00 End Debevec, Hawkins, Tchou, Duiker, Sarokin, and Sagar. Acquiring the Reflectance Field of a Human Face.
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