JF 3DS Max Tutorial: The Space Scene

[NickB2513]

Brilliant tutorial!!! I learned so much from this, I love the shake movement on the camera. Fantastic thank you!

[PsyCoderCATT]

That helped me a lot. Thank you! But I think the real problem is finding sounds for making animation...

[clanmav]

how the heck i upload this animation to youtube when im done??

[clanmav]

Wow thank you so much man. Hope you have others like it!

[norchaaa]

camera shortcut ctrl-C

[maherxav]

thanx alot man , that was awesome !

[koldproxy]

Doesn't work. When I drag & drop the earth image to the sphere image in the material editor, it stays for 2 seconds and then resets. Doesn't let me apply the texture wtf :S

And btw, how the hell do you import your own images that you want to apply to an object? I can't find a single "import" button in the material editor. Thanks you very much.

[NickB2513]

Absolutely brilliant!!! very to the point tutorial, no messing about this is exactly what I wanted! Thank you!

[liakira]

it's a quickly tutorial :p

[EquitorialPancakes]

Good tutorial but what do I do to make a star? You have the option of "camera1" however I only have the options "perspective" "top" "front" and "left".

[JayzzyOoiKaeYang]

wat a quick and perfect tutorial, thanks for ur upload, it helps my assignment~ THANKS A LOT! keep on!!

[linkspecialproximity]

If i just drag the texture on the material, it shows up like 100 times on my sphere, its not a nice normal textured earth xD how do i fix this?

[ajaksbackpac]

THANK YOU DUDE!!! You saved my animation grade!!!! I owe you one, lol

[thyron]

Really good tutorial, but man, u'r too fast xD

[Toca91]

Where did you get the sound effect?

[red1isdabest]

hey, when i try to do the lens flare, it doesnt appear, what do i do?

[ingotjuh]

@red1isdabest got same problem. got the answer yet?

[red1isdabest]

@ingotjuh i dont exactly remember but i know it had something to do with the camera... i did make the video but i ended up not using lense flare as it was for a science project... one cool thing to try is press f10 and go to the bottom of common, look for the renderer and choose mental ray... go to materials and click standard, you should have a ton more materials that are amazingly realistic...

[fjakasa]

when i hit the execute sequence button and select render, its just a black screen, what am i doing wrong plz help

[henfromhell]

Dude, really appreciate your tutorial!

I had some problems with the sunlight shining through geometry , so when I moved the earth in front of the sun, it would still shine through? I solved it by time it to come on just as it would come into view. Is there an easier way? I tried all the setting in video post and found 'hide behind geometry' button , but it was the 'rays' that keep shinning through?

Any ideas anyone?

[kayaa11at]

Thank you for this video, very good tutorial aswell. you the man.

[EAH01]

well, what you wanna do is keep making these tuts. good stuff.

[fairo]

fixed it all. but it rendered 43 times lol hahahaha

[fairo]

deleted the starfield now it says error opening QTime file....but thats ok because after this comment im throwing my computer out the front door :)

[fairo]

...STARFIELD ERROR: Camera Not Found.????

[fairo]

ok ok i put all the glows flares in order but it still says camera not found. ????

[fairo]

dude i cant get the lense glow under the lense flare???????? help me :(

[fairo]

this tutorial is excellent man well done helps a shit load! but only thing is.....there's no turbulence in space?

[cfns]

thanks for the tutorial, awesome stuff

[666lilnickY]

why do the maps only show in the render on my pc?

[GennarPierce]

I followed this tutorial and I know this is a noob question but when I play the saved video none of the effects are there from video post. It's like they never happened. They do when I render I can see them being applied, they just aren't present in the finished product. What am I doing wrong?

[madec]

love the tempo

[linkspecialproximity]

hey, good tutorial man. i have only ONE problem.

the map of the earth, there is something wrong with it.

when i aplie it to the sphere i see like 1000sends small earths.

how do i apply it so it looks normal?

Thanks already :D

[TutorialMan97]

it keeps saying Camera Not Found but i do have a camera and i only have one camera... please reply!

[StaturorytrOy]

hi, thanks for your video it really helped me, but i have one problem, and that is that when i view the video in quicktime everything is really blurry and weird looking, as if i was watching it on a tv with bad reception

[cldmusica]

why dont you use mental ray renderer...i think its better

[shahbaz3d]

Very Good Video and Great work.. I have a Question, Please let me know, how we can see Lens effect inside the Glass or Glob. Thanks.

[DanteFingers]

Dude, thank you

[dannymatali02041991]

Really awesome video . . . Cleared alot of questions . . . Thanks Man!

[havi0003]

Sweet tutorial..Does anyone know how he added noise to his original video he shows?

[uniodev]

you are the one :) you get me an upper level hahaha :D that shake effect is awesome idea.i have a new toy now :D

[1015287]

It's not showing in preview?

[mrsndbad007]

take easy man

cool tutorial

[Shortpacman]

i get a Starfield error when i want to edit my lens effects

[4kaWander]

really fast and really usefull, perfect to my, thx a lot!

[DeadMaster3DPL]

Great tutorial but I have a problem, I can not choose the "mov" I have "avi", but after selecting avi I do not want to render: / need some drivers for "mov" for 3ds max? I have 3ds max 2009.

[xmanhelx]

fo fast....but good tutorial..nice one..upload another video tuts...

[mcplanetearth]

what is the best render method?? I keep getting digitization from distant planet scenes..

[fineone1987]

great video

[danosalazar]

excellent video, i learned too much..

but i have a doubt, how you did the ink that appears in your intro???

[shubmad]

amazin stuff. keep up ur work homie... i l need ur help soon cn i have ur email id?

[carpenoctem123]

wow learnt more during these 9 minutes than i did from several hours of lynda tutorial videos ^.^ apparently i like it fast

[Crox300]

fuck you tube

[xavierx93]

i cant select rotation Controller ...there is an error saying noise rotation controller not completed..help plz

[ExProductions100]

hey every time i open my project it is a 1 sec. video on the picture...how do i make it 30 sec. or so

[akakyuuketsuki]

ok, so i keep getting the "can't find camera" error and I think I've set everything up correctly. I've also tried rendering it out in a Targa, JPEG, AVI and MOV, but still does not work. Also, I did make sure I rendered each time in the Video Post. Can anyone help me out please?

[akakyuuketsuki]

@akakyuuketsuki never mind, i had to restart my computer and that fixed the problem.

[Oliuk1]

Can anyone help me? When i try and preview my lens effects flare (around 6.30 on the video) my preview window shows nothing at all.

I can't understand why.

[Oliuk1]

Can anyone help me? When I try and preview my effects, (6.30ish on the video) I get nothing in my window what so ever.

I can't understand why as Camera01 is selected.

[portopreto]

Please, I have a question: It's an excellent tutorial by the way, but i have a problem. When i go to VideoPost and use the Lens Effects Flace and select the Sphere 3 in the Node Source to make a sun, the effect doesn't apply in the object, it does if i choose a light but in the geometri doesn't... can you explain me what am i doing wrong? Thanx for your attention!

[portopreto]

@portopreto i selected the sphere 3 and starting change randomly some parameters and it works just like in the tut. really great!

[portopreto]

dude it's awesome! thanx so much!

[DHLT2inDark]

where's the stars??

[fenderguitars087]

used this to make my space scene for modeling the messenger satellite orbiting mercury. its turning out great thanks!

[joshdogDS]

Hey dude its a nice tut just one problem.

when making the flare thing for the sun i followed everything double checked alot and every time i hit vpQuere and then preivew it came up with my sphere having no change. whats wrong?

[fenderguitars087]

if your using mr maybe you should switch to scanline. i had my renderer set to mr from a previous project and as soon as i switched it back it worked.

[Predatorpaul77]

Thanks mate. Great tutorial. Don't worry about going fast I prefer it that way. I have been working in the 3D design industry for years. I'll post mine up soon :D

[KEMC2k6]

Very helpful will be uploading mine today :)

[Kapurod]

Please help me! when I check the motion blur box in a scene event, in a video post and render, it sais "Error applying Motion Blur" :(

[Kroy23]

dude, epic video :D

[Chillybeef123]

great tutorial, but shouldn't the light be right on the sun? just to simulate realistic shadows with your scene? i mean i could understand if you were using a shadow map as the shadow type, but you can always do a ray traced shadow setup to keep the rays from scattering too much

[Kapurod]

HOLLY CRAP, MAN YOU ARE A TREASURE. I wish all those people would explain problems that fast n easy. Thank you so much :)

[licxstar]

YOU ROCK!

[amukoshi]

hey dudes, great tutorial n all,

i've got one problem though, once i've applied my sphere as the sun as the node source, the preview of the lens flare disappears when it meant to realign itself with the sphere

with or with vp queue it just doesn't appear in the preview window or final render footage

PLEASE HELP! THX

[Cyos11]

Hey, I love the tutorial its makes the earth appear incredibly realistic. However I have two problems that I need a little help with. Despite following the tutorial to a T, when I try to apply the rotation noice it brings up an error simply saying 'cannot apply rotation noise' and the second is when I try to render the animation it renders the first frame and then an error pops up saying 'Can't find Camera' can anyone help? (3DS Max 7 btw)

[Cyos11]

okay fixed the rendering problem. Anyone know how to fix the rotation noise problem?

[rbonillavid]

Hey, how did you fix the 'Can't find Camera' problem? The same thing happened to me. :(

[adi5402]

My Earth map keeps moving with the camera when it moves it makes the earth look funny any idea what i am doing wrong . This is my first time using max and this is a cool tutorial to get into it

[artist2170]

Awesome Tutorial! Quick and to the point. I hate it when tutorials just drag along at a snail's pace.

[moviemaker933]

The starfield doesn't render, the background is just black. I tried increasing the size and that doesn't seem to do anything.

[leodld22]

Exelent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ty

[MofoinAction]

then what you want to do, then what you want to do, then what you want to do XD

Good tutorial

[ErraticOblivion]

lol SHUT UP! XD :P

[Crox300]

Its not working - 6:14

[TheSpace2001]

@MofoinAction Now (13/6/2010 night) It has 13,297 views, equals to 20 views every day!

[Noforcili]

Hey dude , this is realy cool ! But i got a problem ... I made it all work and nice glow FX , but when I render it , there is no lensflare / glow effect rendered .. Do you know what this is caused throug ?

[hehehePST]

Check if the "name.mov" is the last in the queue and then render....It worked for me...

[adi5402]

i had this problem also but then figured out u have to render it within the video post options also make sure u set the file output type properly or it wont do it well.

[Hopper6969]

Just a quick note. I love the speed of this tut. So many tuts are slow going and made for people who cant listen fast. This is great, at my speed and well within my ability level to learn from. I wish more tut makers would do speed tuts like this as a supplement! Good Job!

[mickycheese27]

thanks

[KiranGlitch]

isn't the sun supposed to be yellow?

[KiranGlitch]

Do you know how to get the main toolbar up because I accidentally marked the cross when moving around.

[rawpowergod]

Woah! thanks dude! nice fx.

[BifordusMaximus]

Wow this helps rookies like me. I dont mean to sound rude but for some reason I was more intrigued by the clicking sound that your mouse made.

[areyousureyeah2]

really rookie question i know...but any help would be much appreciated,

how do you make it so the the objects dissapear when you move your viewpoint around?

[ErraticOblivion]

if your talking about moving through 3d space in the viewport select your object and right click it then go to object properties and check the hidden thing... or something... theres something in the properties that can make it hide

[SilentShadows86]

You can use adaptive degredation if your comp is lagging when you move around in your viewport.

[mickycheese27]

please help me I can't see my star field after i've rendered it but i can see it while rendering

[ttandc]

Any idea how to stop the stars from flickering som much?

[luthok]

Thanks excellent tutorial... congrats.

[stevo9889]

Just a Quick question, i keep getting an error "Starfield Error Camera not found" while trying to render.

checking starfield options i have camera01 selected.

[ErraticOblivion]

make sure starfield filter is below camera on the timeline and make sure you have it selected as camera 01.. make sure you dont have extra cameras andddddd i think thats all that would make the problem i dunno =\

[polaroidsky]

@ErraticOblivion : Thank you for your help. I'm having the lens flare from the sun is constantly in front for me. It doesn't go away when I try to block it with the sun. Any idea how to fix that?

[stevo9889]

Thanks Alot, Awesome tut and 5/5

[PzooR]

this has nothing to do with the tutorial really, but how did you get that box around the stuff you create?

It might not be important, but it's a good helper.

[PzooR]

and by the way, is it any way to to this in one picture, not a movie?

[ErraticOblivion]

when you go to choose the render.. instead of AVI or MOV choose jpeg or bmp or whatever you would like.. i suggest jpeg =D and make sure you render it as 1 frame in the execution part instead of 0 - 100 for instance make it 1 - 1

[PzooR]

Thanks, i figured it all out at last, and got really pleased with the results, thanks for a great tutorial. :)

[ErraticOblivion]

not sure was always there when i used it

[paul19781105]

for some reason, when I try to put the earth map in the materials ball, I get the ocean color and message asking if I want to continue. When I click yes, it give me a weird face. When I put that material on the sphere, it comes up in blue and white squiggly lines. Any suggestions?

[ErraticOblivion]

thats really odd... that has never happened to me.. hmm. i honestly have no idea, im sorry

[paul19781105]

Its all gravy. I like how you are explain every move you made which others fail to do. Is there a way I can make the same material (and others) from a saved picture on my computer?

[ErraticOblivion]

of course any picture you can just drag into as a material in 3ds max =] just drag it in and then assign the material!

[Katman1245]

An alternitive to draggin the image (which is easiest) is to choose a diffuse map, which is your color map in the material.

[ErraticOblivion]

THAT TOO!

[Paskatomten]

Great tutorial! Lots to learn in this one so Im gonna try it later this week.

Thanks

[Mordorff]

hahaha wow you go waaaaay too fast.

[ErraticOblivion]

i know lol i figured u could just pause it. i wanted it to stay under 10 min so i wouldnt have to make 2 parts

[Mordorff]

haha yeah thats waht I did I just paused it. Im uploading a 2nd render that I made with the earth moon and sun right now. you should check it out. I used another tutorial on how to make the earth and moon but I used this tutorial on how to make the sun.

[maxmusavi]

woow ty ur great!

[theandy4ever]

my space scene doesnt includes sound

[ErraticOblivion]

i add sound in later using another program

[maxmusavi]

what program did u use to add sounds???

[ErraticOblivion]

i just had a rumble sound and used after effects real quick

[theandy4ever]

you rock

[elpozoo]

:D

THATS TUTORIAL WAS SO AWESOME!!!!

KEEP THE GOOD WORK MAN!!

thank u...

[magnifypictures]

good job! do you know how to do a lens flare when its reflected? like a light off of a car or piece of metal?

[ErraticOblivion]

sorry nothing comes to mind... only that that does is if u put a flare there doing it the same way on here... like a non renderable sphere where u think it would come up on a car and gofrom there

[crazybassman101]

wow thank you

[ubydobenubi]

very useful and easy to follow matey. Awesome!

[lestube001]

wow i dont know to what say

[kkende112233]

Alex that was so amazing

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