r/3dsmax

This car is just so gorgeous.
A few days experimenting with camera angles, materials and light. Doing my best to push realism and photographic qualities by studying work from people that I really admire (Johäll, Bakke, Nivalle).

Creating imagery that stands out is HARD. Finding that extra 2-3% that makes it feel real is HARD. But who goes to the gym to lift easy, light weights? No muscles are built from that. Practise should be hard and challenging, with many "repeat to failure" to really trigger those fibers to grow.

Same goes here. Don't be afraid of not reaching your goals. I'm afraid of the day I stop trying.

Seguinte estou renderizando umas imagens no 3DsMax utilizado o Vray quando coloco para renderizar a visualização do v-ray frame buffer sai normal como programei para ser a imagem porem na hora que ele salva para a pasta esta saindo escura ja alterei gama ja pedi ajuda a chatgpt e afins e nada alguem ja teve esse problema?.

segue algumas imagens de exemplo

Hi everyone,

Sharing one of my recent gym visualization projects. I work on creating realistic 3D interior renders, helping architects and interior designers present their concepts more effectively.

I’m currently looking to connect with interior design studios, architects, and renovation firms who need reliable support for their visualization work — whether it’s still renders, 360° views, or animation.

My goal is to build long-term collaborations where I can fit into the existing workflow and help bring design ideas to life through high-quality visuals.

A little about me: I’m a 3D visualizer specializing in architectural visualization, interiors, and exteriors.

If you have upcoming projects and need rendering support, feel free to reach out. I’d be happy to collaborate.

Thanks!

Hey all, sharing a little tool I've been using in production and finally cleaned up for release.

The problem: Corona's native Material Override is great for clay renders, but it's all-or-nothing — it replaces every material in the scene. That's annoying when you need glass, lights, portals, or anything with displacement/opacity to stay visible so your lighting preview actually makes sense.

What it does: OverrideByMaterial lets you define exclusions instead — by material type (lights, portals, slicers, refractive materials), by name pattern (wildcards like *glass*), or by manually picking materials straight from the Slate/compact Material Editor. It recursively walks Multi/Sub-Object, Blend, Shell, and Corona Layered trees, and it also supports XRef Scene content. If a material has bump/displacement/opacity, it'll copy those maps onto the clay version so you don't lose the scene's silhouette.

It's got a "safe mode" baked in too — it calls holdMaxFile() before applying anything, and there's a dedicated Restore button since Ctrl+Z won't undo the swap. There's also an Automatic mode that hooks into pre/post-render so it just feels like flipping one checkbox.

MIT licensed, single .ms file, no dependencies. Works from 3ds Max 2019+ and Corona 9+ (I've tested on 2023 / Corona 14).

Repo here: https://github.com/rovillanueva/OverrideByMaterial

Would love feedback — especially if anyone wants V-Ray support or has edge cases where the exclusion logic breaks. Open to PRs too.

https://preview.redd.it/wdb885f5asjh1.png?width=544&format=png&auto=webp&s=9e68e91c3ea1f49039f6e3f6ee35c5c339152f8d

I need some help: how do I align this white plane with the diagonal angle of the orange line next to it? I've tried a million things, but it never looks perfectly straight.

I can't stand the default low contrast small font look. I want my custom settings but I can't find where to set it up

Summer product shot for XERO. Modeled in 3ds Max and rendered with Corona Renderer. Feedback welcome!

Full disclosure: I built this, so take the "review" part with a grain of salt. Story below might still be worth a read either way. Three short parts, skip around as you like.

Part 1 - Why

I make 3D models for a living. Every new Max release I hope for something that actually speeds things up - 25/26 gave me nothing I remember without Googling it, and 2027's headline feature is boolean with chamfers. Not exactly changing my workflow.

The idea was simple: automate the routine - the monotonous part of building cloth folds. Simulation is slow and unpredictable, and welding vertices after retopo is its own pain.

I wanted something simple and predictable, no external software, no exporting back and forth. Sounded impossible at first - everyone's just used to suffering through sims. Build something solo that doesn't lose to Marvelous Designer's whole engineering team on quality, while being easier to use?

"Am I out of my mind?" - my internal monologue for about 15 months.

Software like Marvelous or Max is built by genuinely talented engineers who probably don't spend hundreds of hours actually modeling with it. Turns out you kind of have to be a modeler to get inside a modeler's head. Whether it worked - that's for you to decide, I can only share the result.

Part 2 - What it is

A 3ds Max modifier for realistic folds - no simulation, no retopology, no leaving Max.

I know, "realistic folds in 3ds Max" has been oversold before - looks great in a demo, unusable on a real project (IMO). The actual point is time saved: if you've already nailed the folds on one model, FoldFlow reuses that exact shape anywhere, one click, no remodeling. Packaged 39 patterns from my own past work to start.

Easier to just show than explain: video

Part 3 - Technical (probably the part worth your time)

Written in C++. Autodesk's SDK docs read like decades of accumulated notes - including functions written around 2015 that were later gutted but still look like working methods. Compile fine. Call them in Max and you get a hardcoded return 1; and nothing else.

Figuring out how their mesh internals actually behave was the real fight - about 2 months just getting something to run without errors, made worse because Max didn't crash consistently on identical geometry. Could write 500 pages about that alone.

AI was basically useless here - no spatial reasoning, barely any real material to train on. Pure trial and error.

Learned a lot more than expected going in. Got 3ds Max plugin ideas? Happy to talk, reach out however works.Try the 14-day free trial

Thanks for reading.

Had to do one more in the same scene, just added a new groundplane with some big noise and some grass. 4 renderings comped together to get the right light and atmosphere.

Hi!

Just practising my rendering, camera and material-skills. The car is from Turbosquid, most vegetation from Maxtree and the rest is my own. Spent most of the time on light and materials. The car paint was fun but tricky.

Rendered with Fstorm as usual, about 15 min frame/7000 samples at 5k.

All feedback and critique is most welcome.

Some of the features include image overlays, video references with A–B looping and hotkey control, PDFs, and more. The app itself is free on the Microsoft Store, with optional premium features that you can try for 7 days. I'm happy to extend the premium trial to 30 days for anyone who's genuinely interested in using it and giving me feedback.