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Self emitting lamp

Self emitting lamp

PENdzel 2007-05-28 00:00 tutorial  > 3ds MAX  > rendering

Hello. In this tutorial I will show you how you can create self emitting lamp.

1. Here is simple model of lamp that I am going to turn on.
DOWNLOAD START MAX FILE



2. Here are settings of test scene.



3. First ceramic's shader.



4. Second ceramic's shader.



5. Metal shader



6. Remember that this kind of lamp emits light different on whole surface. Some places are a bit darker, other lighter. Here is finished texture for the lamp



7. And here is lamp's shader.



8. Render settings:



9. I deleted vray light and here is result of render:



10. I added some other lights:



11. And here is result:



12. And after some correction in photoshop it looks like that:



DOWNLOAD FINAL MAX FILE

 
 
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MaRmAR 15:43:48  |  12-08-2009
Nice one! :)
xeon_max 05:58:27  |  27-08-2009
ill try it :)
taupada 01:26:03  |  05-12-2009
Nice tutorial
WaseemOnLiNe 11:50:33  |  19-03-2010
Very nice tutorial, thank you very much