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Exposure, Part 1 In part one of the Exposure™ series, this video will show animators how to set up a scene for lighting analysis. It also features the 3ds Max Design sun and sky models, a quick-settings dashboard interface, and an intelligent user interface for accessing the various aspects of the software used in a light simulation, such as render settings, light settings, and material settings.
Exposure, Part 2 In part two of the Exposure series, this video will help animators understand the power of light analysis. Exposure technology is used for simulating and analyzing sun, sky, and artificial lighting in a 3D scene. Ideal for sustainable-architecture projects, this powerful feature set is designed to assist architects in evaluating light intensity in their designs and can help facilitate the evaluation of indoor environmental quality required, for example, for LEED EQ 8.1 Credit.
FBX Object This video demonstrates the interoperability between Autodesk 3ds Max Design software and other Autodesk software such as Autodesk® Maya® and Autodesk® MotionBuilder® software with improved Autodesk® FBX® software memory management, data translation fidelity, and import options. Support for the OBJ file format, including export options, facilitates the importing and exporting of model data between Autodesk® Mudbox™ software and 3ds Max Design, and other third-party 3D modeling applications. Learn how animators can take advantage of export presets and additional geometry options, including hidden splines/lines and optimize options that reduce file sizes and performance. Also, there is exture map handling, and there is import information available in regard to face-counts-per-object.
Render Final Gather and Global Illumination In this video, animators will learn about two settings— the Render Final Gather Only setting and the Render Global Illumination Only setting. They enable animators to quickly cache specific types of maps for animation rendering.
Enhanced Per-object Render Settings In this video, learn how additional object-level settings for mental ray® rendering technology gives animators, designers and visualization specialists the maximum level of control over their renders.
Pro Materials Pro Materals™, a library of easy-to-use, physically based materials for mental ray software-based on manufacturing-supplied data and professional images-is included in 3ds Max Design. This video demonstrates how these tools give architects and designers fast access to common building and design materials like professional wall paint-with glossy or matte finishes and solid glass or concrete surfaces.
mental ray Render Elements This video highlights elements in mental ray. One mental ray-specific render element is included in 3ds Max Design for extracting HDR data from architecture and design materials. Another element allows animators to define the type of data they would like to extract from the shader tree.
Revit Interoperability This video introduces animators to the new FBX-base Recognize™ scene-loading technology, which gives architects, designers, and visualization professionals fast access to high-accuracy geometry, light, material, and camera data from their Revit® Architecture software scenes.
Spline Mapping This video demonstrates how the new spline mapping feature in Autodesk 3ds Max and included in Autodesk 3ds Max Design software can be used to map tubular and spline-like objects.
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