jasperjanssens

If you just use a plane, the rays will be bent once upon entering the glass layer. In a normal glass pane (with thickness) the rays are bent upon entering and then 'unbent' (bent in the other direction) when leaving the glass. You can see what i mean in thiis google image: http://www.infoplease.com/images/ESCI114REFRAC001.gif This means that in the first case the rays are traveling in the bent direction far longer & never 'unbent' which means you get a distorted image. I always use glass with thickness for better realism. You can use glass as a plane, but then you need to set the ior to 1, which means the rays don't get bent.

Yes indeed, you can check out Powerballs for that, https://powerballs.com/

I had serious pain in my wrist a few years ago from mouse use. After a while I realized that the most strain in my muscles came from pushing in the middle mouse button which you do constantly in max for navigating. I now use a very ordinary Logitech mouse but it has some buttons at the thumb. With the Setpoint software (made by logitech) i set those buttons as the MMB... Problem solved since then!

So I would save only the render elements into a 3ds max preset file per camera. This way you can vary the zdepth min & max values, Mat ID & obj ID passes while also minimizing the number of passes u have to use. The Vray render settings are then saved with the 'presets' button in the vray system rollout. If I save all the vray render settings into the max preset file i get a lot of crashes when loading the preset. Hope this is a bit clear

In my experience it's not possible with state sets. Only way i know & use is to make different render presets with only the render elements necessary for each shot. Settings for vray are done with vray presets button in the system rollout because of reliability (lots of crashes if you also do this with the normal max render presets)

Simply amazing! Wouild love to see a behind-the-scenes of this

Hey, looks very nice! Thanks a lot! BTW, I also wanted to download the magazines you posted on your blog, but your box is out of bandwidth. Is there a mirror anywhere or will I be able to download in the future? Thanks again!