maxwellrender z depth

[bluediablito]

hello to all

first thing first i am a big fan of vray.......... but i am tire of trial and error wen it comes to rendering with different light. i was introduce to Maxwell by a coworker at work. at work they only use it for simple furniture rendering and no one knows how to do render a z-depth channel image. i am new to Maxwell and i was wondering how can i get a z depth chanel image like in vray for post work in photoshop?

i curently have 3d max 2009 with maxwell 1.7 with the 3d max plugin

 

one last question. i do not see any maxwell images in the material box is this normal as well i do not see any camera for maxwell?.........should i call the company and ask?

[Fran]

The Maxwell camera controls are at the bottom of the standard max camera rollout.

 

I'm sorry, I can't answer your other questions with any certainty. Do the zbuffer controls have a max and min value? Is so, that has to do with your view extents. The user guide is quite good, maybe there is something in there about it, or you could look at the Think site for info.

 

I don't understand your last question about the material box. Can you post a screen shot?

[bluediablito]

hello thanks for the information. i found it . i also found the z-buffer tutorial in there website

question...... what determines how grainy a image is in Maxwell, what setting can i change for in order to get a better hi-definition quality image?

last question what is sl in the rendering window of maxwell?

[bluediablito]

ok i was able to figure out how to use z-buffer but now i face a bigger problems, i don't know hot to make my image Cristal clear like in vray.

i have render this scene for 180m and it has multiple lights

the sl reach was 12.5

how can i render a better quality image?

(((in this scene i have 29 lights

camera fstop is set to 5.6 and speed 1/125

model in 3d max 2009,

vista ultra 64,

amd atl 2x 3.0, 8gb,

gforece 7600gt)))

Edited September 30, 2008 by bluediablito