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the first thing you hve to do is analyse the green screen movement, trace a compatible camera path in max. do some small test to check this. i would definetly do the comp in after effects for the best control and render time

absolutely!! this was a non sense to split Max since they could have push Maya for game and movies and architecture is not a market that will last forever, we all are doing other stuff to complete our revenues...

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it's a fine work, just that the rotor is spinning in the wrong direction on this apache helicopter.

i totally second that, it would be really hard to rende the animation with backed lights, so the power you save by putting less lights would be completely lost by the rending of the IR for every frame...

hi sins i have no experience with backing texture, can somone explain how far one can go with it ? could i backe a tree or such a complexe object ? if i plan to do some animation would i win some render time ? regards.

very useful, thanks

I agree with those who say that painters, photograpers, printers and web designer are still there even after their job has been demistify and became accessible for a large part of the non specialist people. It happens because their tools got easy to learn and very automated. it's a question of time that our 3d Software change to become so simple that anyone could render a good image in a matter of hour after using a 3D package for the first time. when this arrives it will not stop me to continue learning new 3D Technics and try to make renders that will amaze my clients, at least i can try to do so. But the true is that it will change so much the cgi industry that i will have a lot of problems trying to explain my clients why he should continue to give me thousands of dollars for my work, when he could do almost the same himself or his eleven year girl. As a open and technophile person i will probably be using right from the beginning this hypothetic new revolutionary software, this will be good for my amusement but for my money i will have to find a different business model. so the only real questions are : how can we in the cgi industry change to continue making money with our knowledge ? on this i really have no idea for the moments, but there are some ideas like moving to 3d printers, augmented reality, stereoscopy and other emerging new technology. And how many time do we have til we can't make any more business the way we do ? i would say maybe an other 1,5 to 3 years maximum

hi all i know on every release this question comes along, but can one install max 2009 and 2010 on the same system (xp 64), can anyone share his experience ? thanks.

thank you both for helping me guy, johnvid is right i'm looking for a solution that i can integrate with max and vray. i think that making an hdr from Ozone is not a optimal workflow, is easer to just take one of the hundred hdr image i already have. so i'll forget ozone till they make a vray version. but i think that dreamscape claim to be compatible with vray, anyone has experience with dreamscape ?

Hi, got a little question, using vray in max i use hdr picture from dosch and others to illuminate my scenes. Now i'm thinking about buying a sky generator like Ozone ( http://www.e-onsoftware.com/products/ozone/ozone_3.0/?page=2 ) or dreamscape ( http://www.afterworks.com/DreamScape.asp?ID=3 ) to do my lightings. I believe that this is better because you just buy it one time and can do all type of sky with it, but i already gave a lot of money to build my hdr database. what you guys think, what are your experiences ?

the photoshop plugin Color Efex Pro was a great purchase, it give my renderings the final touch that makes the difference, just in a few clicks.

i'd like to see this real time Vray, any idea wheb it will be there ?

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thanks cimprichjb, this solved my problem :-)