Render to Texture saves black textures!

[Dr.Marimbas]

Hello.

I'm on Max 2011 and rendering with mental ray.
No matter what settings I use, I get black textures after rendering all objects in my scene, despite the fact the textures look good when they're rendering...
I have an architecture scene in Max and want to optimize that for OpenGL or DirectX so it runs in realtime... What would be the best approach?

Thanks DT and keep up the good work!

LM

[libertycityanimation]

is your VGA card setup in max correctly? make sure you are using GL or direct3d if you check your user manual to see which one is correct because a lot of VGA card setting are different so we cannot tell you what the settinng are.

also try the 2 lighting render i found that was the reason when i first started to use max.

When you start a new with blank viewports and you create a box lets say you which to MR and you apply the same texture and setting does it still render in black.

Also make sure your not using the same colour (color) as the black environment if your doing this then you won't see your render.

if you have a black texture then you'll need to change the environment color (colour)
Anthony
LCA

[Dr.Marimbas]

Hey!

Thanks for the insight. I think my video card is working fine:

Results from Help/Diagnoe Video Hardware

Welcome to MAXScript.

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////////// Review GPU Feature Support ////////////////////////////////////
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Graphics Vendor Information: Direct3D 9.0 (NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800)
GPU Shader Model Support: SM3.0
Maximum pixel shader instruction count: 4096
Viewport Shading Quality: Best
Real-time Sun and Sky: Supported
Real-time Architectural Material: Supported

Visit http://www.autodesk.com/max-hardware for a list of certified graphics cards
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Actually I found an in-depth guide on how to use this but I can't do a crucial step: I can't set the File Name and Type, the option looks greyed out as well as the little button with the (...) on it... Any clues on how to override this? In the guide I found they explain that sometimes Max will screw up when rendering to TGA's so it's better to set that to render JPGS or PNGS, but I can't change anything...

I'm sure it's just a checkbox or similar I'm missing... Thanks for your interest!

Cheers

L

[libertycityanimation]

can you put an image (printscreen) up because i don't know what button your talking about there are a lot of buttons that are grayed out unless your in a cetain mode in max can you put the guide up? so in can help you more

Cheers
Anthony