topic Dark background in 3ds Max Forum

Dark background

Darwin33 — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 19:47:41 GMT

I have a problem with a background from a HDRI image. It is too dark, I am happy with the general lighting of the scene but the background is still quite dark. IS there a way that I can make brighter the background keeping the intensity of the general lighting.

Also If would like to change the reflection in a glass of a window, I mean not reflecting the HDRI image that I am using for lighting but another image of my choose. How can I make it?

Finally if in post processing I would like to edit separatly the reflex in windows which element should I render, reflection, reflection filter...?

I enclose the pic

Re: Dark background

irishman_team_kilber — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 23:31:49 GMT

are you talking about the environment map? you can change that by hitting sortcut 8 on your keybord and then change the environment map to a sky map for example or just chage the colour/color using the swatch.

Re: Dark background

Darwin33 — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 18:55:43 GMT

If I change the HDRI image ofthe enviroment map for another picture, am I still lighting with the HDRI image?

Re: Dark background

irishman_team_kilber — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 20:52:20 GMT

this should really be in the lighting and rendering community https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-shading-lighting-and/hiding-an-hdri-image-in-max-2020-but-keeping-reflections-arnold/td-p/8948029

@Richard.Vivanco or @kgokhangurbuz can help you i never really learned lighting and texurng got to bogged down with the AEC extended,

Re: Dark background

Richard.Vivanco — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 05:33:42 GMT

Use https://hdrihaven.com/ files.

Review your lighting configuration, look at the this image:

Re: Dark background

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:15:11 GMT

Another way to change the background in 3ds max is to go to Customize in your upper toolbar, select Custom UI and Default Switcher from the drop down list, and then a window should show up asking what kind of background you want. For a lighter background, choose ame-light, for a darker backgrond, choose ame-dark. Whatever you pick will be treated as default whenever you open 3ds Max on that machine.