Peops need help with GI JOE
 

Anyone can help me get GI JOE?
Or just some basic settings so I can post the damn Mech in a descent render?

Thx

http://files.czar.be/booya

if you go to the WIP section and look at the thread for lok1's mech you'll see a lot of different methods and suggestions for getting better renders. i say take a look and try some. you're bound to find one you like. :)

Thanks neo that was a real help.
in fact it has got me struggling more (snce i have more options - i'm trying them ALL out!)
anyhow
I tried to Mental Ray Clay Render my mech but it doesn't show the whole Mech, some parts are missing...why?

Also I attached the HDR Image to the Dome but as you might see on the bottom of the Left pic, the image is showing outside? Isn't it supposed to give it's light to the inside of the dome?

What am i missing?

How do I make an occlusion pass or a render with occlusion?

Thx

Btw, could you (just for the heck of it) post me some lightsettings you use to present a clay render?
marc.madeleyn@gmail.com

That would really help.
M.

on the fourth page of the WIP FubaR spelled out a nice step-by-step on how to render occlusion without using the render layers or occlusion presets, which isn't really hard as long as you know how to connect nodes in the hyper shade (right click & hold on the lower right arrow of the mib_amb_occlusion node, go down to outvalue, then outvalue (not outvalueR, G, or B)... it'll create a line from the node to wherever your cursor is. from there, left click on the surface shader, click other, and the relationship editor should come up... on the left (the mib_amb_occlusion node) click on the word outvalue - not the plus next to it - and then on the right click the word outcolor.)

after that, you should do as he says and increase your samples... after that, all you need to do is highlight all the objects you want to render in clay, apply the surface shader, and then render with mental ray (i recommend using the production preset) and you should get the ambient occlusion look, like so (i only applied the surface shader to the sphere and the plane)

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l3.../AOsph-pln.jpg

at the same time, if you don't want to do all that, you could just render in mental ray with final gather on (turn on final gather, then increase your FG rays to anywhere from 1000 to 10000 - in this render i used 2000), and then in the viewport from which you want to render, click view, camera attribute editor. scroll down, and under environment, change the color from black to pretty much anything (your render will show up on a scale with this color, so a lighter one is prefered, but actual hue doesn't matter so much), and you'll get something like this...

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l3...der/FGpink.jpg