Topic: I've got a rendering question.

[Sage]

So I started playing around with 3ds max8 (with Brazil) and I'm curious about something. I almost always use 2048 temps but when I did a test render (1680 x 1050) it seems to me that the image is slightly blurry. I don't know all that much about what the obscure 3ds settings do/mean. Am I missing something? Is there some certain 'secret' image type (.jpg, .bmp, .tiff, etc.) that's better than another?

Could one of y'all take a look at the attached and let me know if there's any way to improve the quality?

Thanks.

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[DawsonvilleBill9]

When you pick your model ball and then pick your flat you'll see a dropdown for coordinates and a setting for blur...usually it defaults to 1.0 but if you make it between .25 and .4 you'll see a difference in sharpness!

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[Sage]

Thanks Bill. I'll give it a shot later today and let you know the results.

And what is this...dueling 57s? 

[DawsonvilleBill9]

Just had this one in my renders folder!

[Gchap]

Thanks for the tip Dave.
Greg

[Rogue]

I set it to 0 it then changes to 0.01, But only with 2048 or higher temps. It will make a 1024 temp look jaggy. You can also do this with any bump maps, but I never go below 0.5 for those.

[Sage]

Thanks Rogue. I'll give that a try as well.
I did change the 'smooth' setting (didn't see one for 'blur') to .30 and that seemed to improve it so I'm guessing that 0 will be even better.