Bugga_Guy

Agreed, it doesn't look very Comfortable.. - you could fix it by adding elements behind the window - photoshop a storefront or something in that nature. The grass in the front is too hot/limey with no detail. I would make it darker, add more detail or just crop it out - it attracts too much attention. The road in front of the cars looks like a river - change the texture The people seem odd - reorder if possible (especially get rid of the guy at the right - he is almost being cropped).

For the suspended lighting fixture, would a wire come straight out of the ceiling like that? Should have a cap that covers a junction box.

Beautiful! Your walls are like butter!

You can also apply a 2 sided material in max

Actually no, unless the DVDs player gets installed with drivers. But it seems now everything is all plugin-n-play, without the need to install drivers. I tested one of our sample animation DVD on one of our renderfarm computers with no DVD player, just windows media player (windows Xp). Windows media player prompts a missing codec (mpeg2) which you have to purchase. Using a particular hollywood movie DVD, it runs (but not through windows media player). It seems it uses a player that comes with it (interactual player) - not sure if they are all like this.

Using other formats would be fine except when you have a DVD with a menu system that has more than one movie. However your ideas sparked an idea that I just had that I am willing to try in the future... Make a hybrid DVD/flash video. Make a DVD as usual, however include a flash menu with animation(.exe) and include an autorun .inf (as Tim suggested) for it to launch, which will take care of the problem for people who don't have a DVD player. Since the flash menu is a exe file you won't have any problems if he does have flash. The only problem that I can see if a person already has a DVD player software on the computer, he will have the flash video and DVD player pop up. Running 2 movies at the same time. And make sure that it can all fit in one DVD.

Correct, but there has to be some way to contain a player on the actual DVD that runs your movie without a player. I have seen some hollywood movies with the interactual player http://www.interactual.com but I guess they pay $$$ to offer solutions to DVD producers.

Good to hear that Windows 7 can support this, but I am sure 99% of my clients still use windows XP. We never have any problems with Mac users as it comes with a DVD player built in the Mac OS. It really doesn't have to be windows media player (although that would be the easiest), just something that can auto execute a player on the DVD to automatically play the animation, without any install.

Funny you say that, we actually do that as well. We always add a copy of a windows media/quicktime movie just in case, however non tech savy clients never figure out how to explore the contents of the DVD, and sometimes get confused (I am serious). I just want something easy so don't have to explain the process to clients. Just pop the DVD in a player or DVD rom and it will work (play automatically) with out the need to download/install anything.

I have a question regarding DVD's I am hoping that someone will be able to help. When encoding a DVD of an animation. The DVD will play fine on any conventional DVD player. However playing on a computer with DVD-rom drive is a different story. It will only ever work if a DVD player program is installed on that persons computer. We have had a few clients turn to us and say that DVD we provided does not work, however they just don't have DVD player installed on the computer. When we mention to install a codec/player all is fine, however this can be of a frustraiting/embarrasing situation. I notice with big movie DVD's, they launch automatically (DVD player or not). Not sure how they achieve this (I am assuming they have their own player built in). Is there anyway to have a DVD launch on a computer's DVD-rom without having the user to download a DVD player? Any suggestions?

I think I saw some in Dosch Designs under Vizimages awhile back, not sure how good the poses are.

Do it post using aftereffects. http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/earthquake_with_32bpc/

Audio tune. http://www.antarestech.com/

http://www.mentalimages.com/gallery/architecture.html Click on the Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House Artist Alessandro Prodan rendered with mental ray. The point is Mental Ray is just as powerful as Vray, it depends on how well you know it - not to offend anyone using Vray, they both are good renders, however the only way to get a good rendering depends on the knowledge of the user.

If you are looking for a free alternative you can export the file out as a COLLADA file by saving the file as a kmz file then renaming the extension as a zip file. Open the zip file up it should have the collada file with textures. Get the 3d program blender (free) and open the collada file through blender and then export the file to whatever is available (obj/3ds file) - this process is a pain but its free.