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Hi fellows! I really need your help on this one! One of my customer have 3ds max 9 and used vray for the rendering. Some problem occur , like missing dlls. (vrender60.dlr , vrender90.dlr) ...
Dear Experts I'm having real trouble with the Matte/Shadow material in V-ray(with 3D studio Max). I'm using the VRayMtlWrapper to create a Matte/Shadow material on the plane below a 3D studio...
Folks.. I'd like to try and solve this.. I think the title says it all, I want to know why this is happening.. I have a scene in 3DS max, it utilises daylight and skylight and in the envir...
We've been working with 3DS for many versions back in the past, but this is the first project where we've been using Max 9 for a significant, detailed mental ray render. We've tried doing this...
Hello, I currently use 3D Studio Max 2009 as my animation platform.  I recently downloaded the 2010 trial to give it a spin, and I created some scenes and objects that I need to work with in ...
I've watched some tutorials and seen some really cool materials used in some 3ds max graphics, but they're not included in my materials menu.  How do I find more materials and textures and how...
Hello experts, I've modelled a character and now need to rig him. I'm new to that unfortunately. I've already done the skeleton and all helpers and IK/FK setup. Now I need to assign my mesh...
I have a city scene created in 3ds max that I made as one object using a few modifiers.  Currently each building in the city is a separate element in the object, but I need them to be separate...
I'm creating multiple animations in 3ds Max and converting them to Flash .flv files. The end result will be delivered in the browser. The flv file used depends on user choice. My question ...
I'm a complete beginner in 3ds max.  I'm trying to create a model of a bed with a blanket draped over the top of it, but the mattress keeps showing through the blanket. I made blanket from a...
Hello. I'm just starting out using ZB and am having a problem with exporting my model from 3ds Max (2009 64-bit) to ZBrush (3.1), and couldn't get it fixed even as I tried multiple differen...
so i have a gift/present modeled, but i'm having some difficulty getting the ribbon to fall off the box. i found an example on youtube that is pretty what i'm trying to make happen. <A HREF=...
Hello! I need really good tutorial to learn and practise architectural modeling with 3ds max.
Hi, I have a team of designers using 3dmax 2008 to render images, which takes about 2 hours at least. I have learned that using Backburner Net Rendering can help reduce this time effect...
I make a model of a reading lamp and tried to use mental ray to render it. For the geometric model of the light bulb, I made a simple spheroid and applied a standard material to it, with a...
Hi All This is more of a question than a problem..If I have an animation in 3DS Max lets assume it is 200 frames long at 25fps. Here is my question.. If I require the animation to have a fou...
Hello Experts, I made a scene that uses around 40 different images, mix(s), multi sub-objects. I moved the maps folder hoping that the process of re-assigning the new path wouldn't be a big...
i have found a plugin called Vray and installed it in 3d studio max 2009, it enabled features like VRayLight, VRayProxy, and etc. However, i dragged a teapot to test with VRayLight and however...
Hi, I'd like to make a ribbon-like arrow animate along a helix.  The arrow head should follow the path while the ribbon part stays visible behind it... so it sort of looks like it's growing...
I am a beginner so please talk in layman's terms.. I have a scene that has two cameras in 3DS Max 2008.I have animated the movement of camera "A" fine. Now I want to swap to Camera "B" how do...
Hi All, I need to draw a network with any 3D software, I have created it in Visio 2003 and I want to have it in 3D, I have several servers, routers and a different network components, please ...
I want to send scripts (.ms files) one by one to the 3dsmax, from an external batch file. The 3ds max application is opened, and an external utility sends it .ms files to be executed. How ca...
Hello all. I've modelled and unwrapped a human, in the way that I normally do it. I've rendered my UVs and wanted to place it on top of my model as a diffuse map. But for some reason the c...
In 3DS Max 9.0, I'm trying to set the colour and alpha value of each vertex in a simple plane so that I can create an alpha gradient. I found how to set each colour but am having problems sett...