Monday Movie #34: 3dsMax Backgrounds Tutorial

| www.MrBluesummers.com | In this Monday Movie I'll be providing a brief tutorial on how to use backgrounds in 3dsMax. We'll go over the basics of displaying the background image in the viewport, as well as how you can explore this under-appreciated feature.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• 3dsMax
• 3d studio max
• background
• tutorial
• walkthrough
• guide
• rendering
• spherical mapping

[amcbub9th]

how do you "take a render"?

[GuyBluesummers]

Hit "F9", "Shift+Q", or go to the render settings panel and the render button is in the lower left. =)

[CrzayMazy]

This is what I did:

I took a photo of where I wanted to place the object and then took 9 photos in the other direction and made a 180 degree panorama out of it. Right now I want the first photo to appear as a background in the viewport/render, and I want my chrome sphere to reflect the panorama. How do I do this?

[normanatalus13]

thanks for the awesome tut man. i am taking my first course in 3ds max at school and the project is to model an object. i didnt like doing something so simple so i modeled four spaceships and three planets and am having the ships fly around and fight each other. it looks kind of bland with the background i have though. how would i go about getting a solarsystem lightprobe?

[apoltata]

hi sir, why is that my environment map is dimmer after rendering than the original environment image i put in?

[deds888]

@GuyBluesummers how to shine object, just like the first one we thought a transparent but it was reflected.?

[massarde9591]

firstly many tks for the wonderful tutorial people like you make the world better.

i did you tutorial and just worked amazing the only problem is, when i add lights in the view perspective is ok ,the background and the object look amazing, however when i render, the background still ok but the object is just something black can you help me ?

[Kankerzwijn]

dude stfu and made it comfortable love

[3DSpecialFX]

hi, with regards to the backgrounds, is there a way of making the spherical environment track with the rotation of an object in the centre of a scene. so if i rotated something in the middle the background would rotate also relative to it..

[Chal0099]

I learned something from your video, but, could you tell me where to find Lightprobe spherical images like that of a planetarium?