3DS Max Environment Shadowing

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Uploaded by on Dec 20, 2007

A brief tutorial, detailing how to cast shadows of objects in your scenes against live-action background footage.

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  • hehe....I think that the image that ur putting into the skylight should be the same as the background but a lil bit blurish ( with a lil help of photoshop ,combustion or wtvr ) so the ilumination map would be more realistic...am I wrong? and if u wanna get a better result use render elements and then compositte it in combustion photoshop or wtvr u use...thx for the tutorials I'm sure its gonna be really helpfull for some pple...Cheers!

  • Hi,

    You are correct. Although, this was the first video tutorial I ever created, and was recorded over 3 years ago. There are many inaccuracies. xD

    Thx,

  • man, how can i get that type of realistic shadows without using skylight ? (with another type of light - and not getting that crisp shadow )

  • You can not create shadows on background footage without a Skylight.

  • Excellent tutorial! But when you create an animation how do you apply the shadows? Mine renders with shadows but when i create an animation the shadows go?

  • Never heard of that happening. One way to trace the problem is to set up your scene exactly as shown in the video, then create your animation.  Just make sure that you're not changing any shadow/mapping settings while Auto-Key is on. That could also be a cause.

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  • SOPA!!!!!

  • GREAT TUTORIAL WELL EXPLAINED SHORT AND TO THE POINT - YOU RULE!

  • Cheers mate excellent and explained in plain english! Hooray! haha thanks xx

  • Thank You

  • DUDE! JUST WHAT I NEEDED THANK YOU!!

  • nice tutorial, Im having problems when adding the first light, it doesnt let me check "cast chadows" or change the parameters!! also when I render my back ground doesnt show!! please help! thanks.

  • That was sick NICE :D

  • Sir, I can´t thank you enough. Some of the details you explained in your video solved my problems.

  • Great tutorial, very helpful ^^

  • could you do a tutorial on vortexes i cantr seem to find any

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