Great looking hat.

I still haven't found the HDRi thing. :c

its normally called a sky probe. when you go to set environmental settings like a sun or a background texture or something to the like look for the setting for using a sky probe/light probe/hemisphere sky.

Do you mean the Mental Ray Physical Sky? Within the Daylight System?

What I used http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2106701 there.

precisely. but instead of a physical sky you use a sky probe. http://www.debevec.org/probes/
the images that look like big flat spheres is a .hdr light probe image. download and try those out.

Okay, so once I have downloaded a .hdr, how do I load it into 3DS Max and make sure the program uses it as light?

that part saddly i'm not sure of.

Aw, well, thanks for all the help. <3

A lady named Jenni O'Connor visited my school who was an expert on lighting in 3ds max. Here's her email:

jenni[at]4da-inc.com

Just say that someone from Flashpoint directed you to her. She should be able to answer all your lighting questions.

I've seen this hat all around FA. Nice rendition of it! =P

Did... Did my hat just get rendered in 3d?!?

This is awesome! Thanks so much for this! :3
Would you mind if I posted it on my profile? Hehe

be my guest. and yesh...its rendered in the almighty powers of my 3D world

Thankies! This was a really nice thing for you to do!

no problem. I love to do this stuff. make random renders from peoples things and present it to them as a surprise.
muhahaha

Hey, if you ever want something animated, let me know. I'm an animator in 3ds max. Love to work with you if you want.

if you would like. I do have a model that i made specially for animation. its a skeletons hand. each individual piece is 256 poly. i hope that isn't to much of a poly count. its more of a prop really but it might work for animating a walking skeletons hand. also to avoid some extra work when i exported to .obj i made each piece of the model have its own material. but they are all pretty much the same sphere modeled into a certain piece so material settings won't be to hard.....i hope.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zm3ozloznox

you have my permission to use this model in anything you wish.

I'll see what I can do. The only issue I have is rendering the animation so that it fits FA's accepted file types. Eh, I'll make it work out somehow. Thanks.

you'll have to convert the animation to a flash. i would recommend just using a site like media fire and giving me the link to the video

Does it have that hole thing (I'm not familiar with hat terminology, lol) on the back, like in alex's avatar?

yes. but the angle hides it. I used a clever strategy to make it. shape the hole on the side i want it on using edges to form a neat oval like polygon shape the use the trick called intrude on the shape i made and the flat face on the bottom left after i cut a sphere in half. that this does is hollow the object out and cuts a neat hole where i shaped the faces for his hat.

Doesn’t that hat boost your defense to +6?


...No, wait... that was the Mr. Baseball Cap. ^^;

Oh nice! :D Great rendition of this hat!^^

OMG hat!

*sprays it with anti xenomorph spray* look with your eyes not with your hands

*hisses and runs away*