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Essential 3ds max 2008
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Essential 3ds max 2008

by Sean McBride
March 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
445 pages
15h 43m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
Content preview from Essential 3ds max 2008
Congratulations! You’ve just matched your first camera angle
and position!
Adding a Ground Plane with a Matte Material
to Match the Environment
Now that we have our background loaded up and our camera
angle matched, we need to add a three-dimensional ground
plane and line it up with our scene. This ground plane will
serve a couple of purposes. It will give us a guide to line up
our perspective from the 2D photo to the 3D object, and it will
also receive the shadow when we light our scene. This is very
important because the shadow is what will actually put the
object within the photograph. If you had a more complex
scene that had several objects that the ...
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ISBN: 9781598220506