Droid Control Ship Hallway model...does it work for you?

Hey guys,
Has anyone ever tried importing the DCShallway.3ds file in 3D MAX? I have tried importing it into max and it just renders all in white.
Has anyone had any success in re-texturing this model, or fixing whatever it is that needs to be corrected?

~Rory

 

*BUMP*

Someone must know?

~Rory

 

Let me check it out when I get home tonight - I'm not near my animation computer otherwise I'd take a look right now. I'll post something tonight and let you know what I find out.

 

Thanks DV editor let me know what you come up with.

~Rory

 

DVeditor: have you figured anything out?
Well I have been playing with the light set up and I think there's just way tooo many lights. If you erase them all, the model is seen fine. I'm wondering if there is a certian light setting that is needed to be changed?

~Rory

 

Hmm, that could be. I'm still not quite home yet lol but I will be fairly soon. I'll still check on the model and post a reply later tonight. The lighting could be a very big part of the problem though...if I get it to work later I'll post a new version of the scene for you if you like. What version of Max are you running?

 

I'm using Max7 thanks.

~Rory

 

Ok, just got home and opened up the file...it was a bit of a mess. I'm guessing the conversion didn't go very well because the the lights are WAY too high (there's like 177 of them lol) and the camera was messed up too. I'm working on a corrected scene right now - will post it asap.

 

awesome...let us know!

 

Ok, here's the deal.

The lighting in this scene was very very bad because every single light was emitting WAY TOO MUCH energy even at values as low as 0.05 lol. My guess is that Max handles the lighting data differently than Lightwave and therefore was calculating the values all wrong. (e.x. Lightwave light set at 0.5 = Max light set at 5.)

What I did was import the file into Max and perform a test render using the default scanline settings. Here's what I got.

After some major corrections using the light lister, I was able to tone it all down and achieve this.

If you'd like the file (Max 7) here it is.


I can't work on this any more tonight but I might try to clean the scene up a little bit another time. The textures and lighting still aren't what the picture showed, but at least it's viewable now. Hope that helps you!

 

This definetly helps! If you choose to improve the texturing, I'm sure everyone here would appreciate this!Can u add reflection to the floor? Let us know if you're going to do this!

EDIT: I opened your version, and it still looks the same....?
~Rory

 

I'll do what I can on it (textures, etc.) and see what I come up with by the weekend.


EDIT: I opened your version, and it still looks the same....?

Hmm, the file is the one I corrected...I'll see what I can do and maybe post another one. I'm in the middle of a time-sensitive F/X project right now but I should have something by this weekend to report.

 

can I open the max7 file with max6?

 

can I open the max7 file with max6?
Unfortunatley Max doesn't go backwards.

~Rory

 

Yeah it can have "interesting" results if you do that...you can always give it a shot - worst thing that can happen is it doesn't work, eh?

 

Your computer will systemactically explode on contact with a Max 7 project

dont try it

 

So will the pieces of your system be little triangles?

 

So how is your investigation DV? LOL

~Rory

 

Working on it.

 

Ok I've got the lighting under control. (For now lol.) Here's the latest image - I'm working on correcting the textures and optimizing the file right now and should have a clean .max file for y'all this weekend!

EDIT: The scene looks very dark right now - but I did that to focus on the self-illumination of those wall panels.

 

Cool...I think everyone here will appreciate the DCS Hallway update. Especally for those like me that have little 3d experience and want to use the hallways for their fanfilms/projects.

~Rory

 

looks good yeah.. thnx for the reply

 

All righty then, let's put this one to bed, shall we?


Here's the final scene: DCShallway_Max7__(9.48 MB)

I didn't color the lights or play with the reflections much at all, I was more concerned with getting the scene to a viewable state and correcting a few textures. All renders done by me were with the scanline renderer.

Current .lw Scene
Current .max Scene
New .max Scene
(or if that one is dark on your screen)
New .max Scene - brighter


Hope that helps everyone! Enjoy!

 

WOW! Excellent job DV! I'm sure everyone here will enjoy it. Plus I think Sci-fi can use the update, right Zoo!?
THANK ALOT FO YOUR HELP!


Now all I need is to find a DCS bridge!
~Rory

 

Thanks for the compliments fireresq. I'm glad it worked for you!

Zoo - now that I know the scene works, any chance we could add this to the download options?