rendering question?

[bdubbya]

I'm using 3d max to create landscape scenes. I have a rendered glass building and I want to place it in a digital photo. Is there a way to do this in 3d max? I tried doing it with photoshop, but it just doesnt look right.

[AJLynn]

Do a search on the forum for camera matching - there's been a lot of discussion on it here.

[jtiscareno]

Brett basically what you need to do is "bring" in the photo you want to use into max, you do this in to settings, on the rendering pull down menu go to enviroment and select the image you want to use, then go to the view pull down menu and in viewport choose use enviroment image of file (this will make the image visible in the viewport you are using).

 

Then in that viewport try to match the camera and angle to best fit, I always really in photoshop for additional work so when you render the image save it as a png so you only get the object and not the background and then do final tweaking in PS.

 

good luck!

[bdubbya]

Thank you. I'm fairly new to max and I'm trying to place scenes into digi pics to illustrate landscape architecture proposals. One more quick Q: Can you suggest any tips on lighting in max? Or the best light to use for outdoor environments?? Thanks again for your help.

[Guest nazcaLine]

if you are new to max you should try these tutorials:

 

http://www.cgarchitect.com/resources/tutorials/smoke3d/default.asp

 

but if you want to use a GI plugin i'd recommend Vray, there is a lot of info and tutorials about this plugin. chek http://www.evermotion.org for video tutorials about vray, they're free (i couldn't see them though, i think i don't have the codecs or something)

[vadhor]

I tried doing it with photoshop, but it just doesnt look right.

 

Brett, I'm try give some tip to You: when you render your image in max save it with alpha-chanell (e.g. in tiff or tga) and then in photoshop select your rendering by alpha-channel, copy selection and paste it to original background.

 

So you can obtain more tuning options in photoshop, and your image will more reallistic

 

Here is example of this: