Tips To Make Your Render Better

Tips to make your render good

                                           




                           Most people told me that their render "sucks".So it's a big problem for many beginners.Today I'm going to show you how to avoid that and add some dignity to your render.

To get started, I'm going to use a simple example file. CLICK THIS LINK  to download the file.

Let's get started.

Materials

                                  If you are using physically incorrect materials, your render will be unrealistic.It may maximize your render time too.However 3ds max provides us 100% physically corrected materials and a special material preset called "Arch & Design" known as A&D.I recommend that you use there two type of mats when doing a production or an architectural render. 

                                 To access those materials, choose your rendering engine as "Mental-Ray".Then go to the material editor(hotkey - M)>press standard button >scroll down to mental ray sub menu.

   

Recommendations:- For walls           :- Autodesk wall paint

                               For floor tiles  :- A&D with glossy ceramic tile template 

                                            After adding A&D and autodesk material your scene will look a bit better,but still It's not good enough for publish

                                          Now your scene will be in this quality.

 Filling The blanks

                           If there is a lot of free space in your scene it won't look professional any more.To fix that, you can fill the floor space with a sofa,coffee table whatever that fits.Also, you can use pictures to fill the walls.So I added a dining table and some pictures to my scene.

NOTE:-Use A&D for texturing.

                            Now my scene looks like this

Lighting

                         Lighting is very impotent when you are doing an any type of render.Mr omini  light is good to do night render.Sun light,sky light and mr sky portal lights are good to do a day time render. So I usually use that lights to my renders.In this case I'm going to do a day time render.So  I add a sun light and a sky light with three  mr sky portal lights.It looks dark now.

Exposure Controlling And Indirect Illumination Level

                            As you can see my render looks dark and noisy now.To avoid the dark open "environment and effects" window(hotkey - 8) and select "mental ray photographic expose control" and select an appropriate expose value.

                                          To add some quality to our render,we have to add some indirect illumination.To that, open "Render Setup" window (hotkey - F10) and go to indirect illumination tab.Then select a proper level.

NOTE -Higher the level you select, better the quality and takes a lot of time to render.

                                                Then your render should be in a good level this is mine.

Adding Final Touches 

                                         If you want to add some final touches to the render you can use an image editing software.So I used photoshop and here is my final render.

                                                                                                              Akila Uyanwatta

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