I just made this, and I love how it turned out.


Modled in 3D studio max 5 with nurmbs, and slightly altered in ps7.



Hows it look, realistic?

I like. Good job :) I especially like the finish on the swans. It's almost a marble effect.

*whistles* That's good.. I really like it.
Did you use a reflect map or UVW images? .. Or both? ^^

i like it :) although some places could be smoothed a little more, but thats not to hard.

i looks like it had a base marble texture, a reflect map and some raytracing with a falloff map.

Close, its a basic max wood mat with a falloff map set to perpendicular/parellel, and the reflections are actualy given by using an hdri map in the enviroment map slot.

FYI: HDRI stands for high dynamic range image and is basicaly a picture of a highly reflective chrome ball converted to a format that will reflect with alot more depth than a regular enviroment map. The biggest difference is the fact that it stores the colour value information in floating points instead of 255/255/255 types. This gives it the ability to seem to excede pure white light and change the light levels in the image in the same way as a camera.

I also used the hdri in the skylight slot, this made the light seem to come from the little lights in the image you see reflected.

I'm looking at the image on a TV screen, so I cant tell if theres any artifacting, but from here it looks fantastic. Great job on the lighting. Was it ray-traced?

Yeah I was kinda vauge on that, the falloff map is the reflective map, or raytraced. But it gets more reflective the more angled an object is to the camera. Theres alot of things like this that you dont notice, (well i didnt). Like take a look at at car (classic example) the side facing you will be less reflective than one to the side more. Thats why its hard to see yourself in the cars reflection, but alot of times it looks almoast totaly reflective.

pretty good, i'm guessing your using brazil?

Yeah, but its only the test version, I dont got dah money for the real thing, its like 1200 bucks CDN.