Big Bird

Try Palms Place or Cosmopolitan. I've stayed at both, very nice. Palms Place is luxury condos & just a bit off strip, accommodations are fantastic. Cosmo is a little more $ but in the middle of everything. Not sure why my country says China over there on the left but I live in LV.

dude, that's pretty sick...

oh the irony! maybe I'll explain that on another thread but i really should get an avatar...

or make sure the other servers are mapped (via windows not max) to the same drive letters as your workstation.

Yes! That's what makes Vray so great. I would highly recommend using the vray physical camera to take advantage of exposure settings, the f number and ISO in particular. Uncheck vignetting as not to influence the output. Second, Try to avoid pure 255 white materials as it will create problems, keep it around 249 or so (not scientific) and you should be ok. the dome, hdri, direct light will all work but before you get carried away try getting the overall lighting as close as possible with just the vray sun and sky or a direct light. The idea is to keep it simple at first. This way you can get a feel for the camera's exposure settings and how it works with the sun's intensity.

Try this: Leave the EV to default (15 i think) and beginning photographic exposure, choose default outdoor clear sky preset, then try turning up the film speed from 100 to 150 or 200. beyond that you may need gamma correction. try 1.8 or 2.0

I agree with the others, mental ray daylight system with photographic exposure control is the way to go, physical sky changes with animated sun. renders pretty fast, looks good even on draft. the only other thing to be careful with is gamma (lots of other threads on this) with mr the proper gamma will avoid the washed out look and keep good color in your bitmaps. - or if its just 1 or 2 textures you can throw a utility gamma/gain on top of the offending bitmap. - or if you don't want to mess around with that just do 'levels' adjustment to the render in photo shop. good luck!

do u mean like a crown molding? try a sweep modifier

well I'm stumped....

your .ms file name may be different than the script name on the Custom User Interface list. For ex: the script called "VRayMtlConverter2.ms" shows up as "Convert all scene materials to VrayMtl and......." some long string. so if I'm looking for V on the list i won't find it.

Depending on your install there can be more than one scripts folder on your system, you may have to copy the script to the one max is looking at...I use C:/Program Files/Autodesk/3ds Max 2009/Scripts. and then restart Max.

I go through this every time I reload my o.s. or upgrade my system. Let's see..customize/customize user interface/toolbars tab/ then find your script on the list to the left. Now if it's not even showing up on the list you obviously can't create the first button. Try this, First to goto scrips/run script and run it (even if nothing happens) then try the steps above. I had to do this before I could make the button once but not sure if it will work for you.

Not sure if your asking but, yes the Chinese brochure is an advertisement, but my intentions were not to promote them, I was sharing the info to help us see something for reference to the original post by Maxer as I very recently recieved that email. This one (The Chinese Company) actually seems within a 'reasonable' range, and dare I say unexpectedly high for a Chinese company. I suspect they contacted me with the hopes of becoming my outsource source. Exposing this I think actually makes us more competitive in the US and shows not everyone is selling $99 renderings. However, I completely empathize with Maxer. I too feel threatened by outsourcing and I am quickly looking for the EXIT.

Since we're all in such a good mood I thought I'd share some more related info I received in an email from China yesterday. I was sent a bunch of images, 19 jpegs (here's 3 of them), then I replied and asked them for pricing and they gave me a pdf.

I respectfully withdraw my previous request, Nils peeps will surely set it off