gmax to YafRay Renders

gmax Rendering

Rendering Tutorial Links

Here are some scenes created in gmax & rendered with YafRay

A simple scene to show basic shadows, reflections and bump mapping.

A glass with high transparency, reflection, refraction and some GI.

It took a while to get the balance I wanted to achieve in this render.

Don't get discouraged if you don't get good results right away. Lighting can be difficult to setup, start with a basic 2 or 3 point lighting setup and 'soft' materials, then add the refractive and reflective materials and adjust the lights accordingly, finally add the background illumination and GI.

Here are some links worth checking out.

Xzzy's site has info on getting started and has condensed the YafRay documentation
Kam's YAGMAX site has some gmax specific tutorials and scene files for getting started
T.Baba's GUI for YafRay is a great middleware application, makes altering shaders and GI parameters easy
GMaxSLGRAB.zip Direct download link for the "Grabber"
Three Point Lighting Tutorial By Jeremy Birnby the author of [Digital] Lighting & Rendering
3pt lighting tutorial at 3D Total
3pt lighting tutorial By Jenn at 3D Total
More lighting tutorials
Paul Debevec's site Lighting and Rendering info, demos, and SIGGRAPH papers

I hope to have a step by step tutorial posted soon.

go to the introduction to gmax rendering

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