IceAged Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Hi all I have been asked to create a cross section of the interior of a building - only got an hour left to do it, however... Is there a quick and simple way of doing this, ie, by creating a plane for the camera in orthographic view? I am running Max8 and mental ray... Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jccloutier Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 set a manual clipping plane with the camera. near clip is slice plane, far clip should be beyond objects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceAged Posted November 6, 2006 Author Share Posted November 6, 2006 Thanks Jeremy I recall reading about this a long time ago, but i've never had cause to use it up until now. My concern was that there might be problems using this feature with global illumination - and there is a warning in the help file against using clipping planes with mental ray... but it seems to have worked fine in my test render. Thanks for the fast reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dollus Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 I use clipping planes quite a bit with Mental Ray and have never had an issue (yet). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jccloutier Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 your welcome. if you ever need to do complex cutaways with slice plane caps there's a program called scalpelmax that is off the charts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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