rikou Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Hi, just one question .... Why the effect "lens flare=>glow" (link to a light or geometry) doesn't work when I have render up to 3000 or 3500x... pixels ???!!! if someone can tell me why ... IT WILL BE GREAT !!! thx bye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gleggers Posted November 14, 2002 Share Posted November 14, 2002 Hey rikou, max has always had limitations regarding high resolution output.. you may need to render individual sections of the complete resolution you're atempting to execute. perhaps this support file from discreet will help: http://www.discreet.com/support/max/faq/answer.php3?prod=dddstudio&id=465 does that help?? later... gleggers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikou Posted November 14, 2002 Author Share Posted November 14, 2002 thx ! ok ... just limitations regarding high resolution output... I have my answer now !! thx & see u later Gleggers ... ciao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted November 15, 2002 Share Posted November 15, 2002 hey rikou, I don't think the answer mark gave is quite the problem you have, first of all, are you refering to lens effect flare and lens effect glow in the video post?? or are you doing lens flare from the rendering effect menu?? if so for both of them you won't see anything if you are not rendering a perspective view or camera view... ie the effects won't work in viewports like: top, bottom, left, front the lather is I think the case of MAX3.. If you are using MAX4 however, all should work fine, I ran a couple of tests at resolutions of 6000x4000 or so.. it works. To find a solution, just tell me your glow/flare values or make a screenshot..... and I'll help you out.. So.. I hope you are a bit more happy. And make me happy too by updating your profile with all the nescesary info required.. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikou Posted November 15, 2002 Author Share Posted November 15, 2002 Hi quizzy, u'r right .. more informations for my problem ! I use 3dsmax4.2, and in this case, I use lens flare => glow from the rendering effect menu ... It's, of course, rendering in camera view .... there is 2 cases... one lens effect glow attach to light (omni)and another one lens effect glow attach to object with ID ... my problem in fact, is the fact that when I'm rendering them at resolution of 2000x1500, all is right (like I want) but when I'm rendering at 4500x3375 ... no way !!!! no glow, no lens flare ... mmm ... can I post screenshot here ??!! thx for ur interest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted November 15, 2002 Share Posted November 15, 2002 Okay this is the deal: 1. Send me a file with only the nescesary lights etc.. no geometry needed.. 2. UPDATE YOUR PROFILE!!!! 3. I'll help you solve the problem.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richymcp Posted November 25, 2002 Share Posted November 25, 2002 Hi guys, Sorry to butt-in but I'm having the same problem as rikou in fact this is a problem I've had with Max for some time? Typically I’ll have a scene with a material with an id number and I'm using a ‘lens effect’ glow (using the same id number of course) at test render size 640 x 480 it works fine but when I send a large final render (say 5000 x 3750) the lens effect doesn't seem to work. What's strange is I've done a few tests with small objects and rendered them all the way from 640 to 3000 to 5000 wide and the glow seems to work fine it's only in a complicated scene that it’s messing up. Maybe gleggers is right and it’s got something to do with large renders generally? As a work around I generally fake the same kind of thing in Photoshop using Gaussian blurs that seems to work fine although obviously it would be great to do it in Max. Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikou Posted November 25, 2002 Author Share Posted November 25, 2002 Hi richympc, Sorry, I've forgot to give answer to that problem ! Quizzy giave me one explication .... The problem, in fact, is when u want to use glow with a clipping camera ... the glow works fine when u don't use "clipping planes" at any render size ... THX QUIZZY does that help u ??? see u later ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted November 25, 2002 Share Posted November 25, 2002 glad I could help you out rikou! Richard, Well to me it sounds like you have a similar problem as rikou did, or you are rendering with the video post glow filter (tell me if you do). If you would render to a very large image format, and use a glow, it might be that your computer runs out of memory because of the rendered g-buffer channel, BUT it allwasy gives you an error-message... something like: "error creating bitmap" What you could try then is the thing gleggers told you... hope it helps.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richymcp Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Hi guys, Yeah I've checked my camera and I'm not using a clipping plane also threes defiantly no error message. The glow just doesn't appear although it's defiantly computing it, when I send the image with no effects it took no more than 3/4 of an hour (that’s at 5000 pixels) with effects on I sent it overnight and it took 12 hours so it's doing something!! Oh and the video post query well I don't even know how to use video post (Dohhhh I know guys don't give me a hard time) I’m using a lens effect glow with an assigned material id number. Maybe it just doesn’t work hey!!! Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 well richard.... send me the files dude... and i'll check it out for you... and can you get MSN messenger??? it works more direct helping you solve the problem.. [ November 27, 2002, 04:01 AM: Message edited by: quizzy ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxlee Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 I read a bit on video post, and your problem is that the glow in Video post is pixel based ?, i think. So the bigger the res the smaller your glow gets. change the size again before you render final.Thats it.Or i think its the same for glow effects in Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted January 18, 2003 Share Posted January 18, 2003 idd fowlee... pixelbased... very annoying, as you always have to GUESS for the effect (so never got the resutls you want...) or try several high-res images before you got it your way... rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 yep, to speed things up when doing hires pictures just save a rla-file and apply your glow filter on the hi-res picture instead of the camera. be sure to save with the g-buffer like so: object=g-buffer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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