3DS Max Camera Matching Tutorial

[@VirtualSUN]

No Camera Matching here. :(

[@samswift1718]

how nice to listen to a tutorial with an easy to understand brittish pirson

[@AddFilmmedia]

Alex. For som time now I have been thinking about placing an object, with corresponding shadow as shown in this tutorial. By following it I finally managed to do just that! I filmed a video with my DSLR camera, did camera tracking in SynthEyes, exported a script to 3Dstudio Max, ran the script in Max which created a camera for me. In Max I created the named Torus Knot, and followed your tutorial to the end, except in the Render Background I chose a Sequence of JPGs (from the DSLR footage) and as Material on the Plane Object on the ground I chose the same sequence of JPGs. And it worked beautifully! If you wan't to se the result, I can upload it! Many thanks! /Tille,

[@themeganetwork]

wow mate this was the first tutorial video which explained everything in detail! bingo cheers mate

[@SanctuaryOfTheHeart]

Great tutorial! Thanks. It was very helpful to show all the setup details with the lighting and materials.

[@JulioArboledaChannel]

I was looking for some info regarding camera match and this helped me a lot. Thanks.

[@Timetraveller2208]

This is an absolutely 'easy to understand' video....who cares if moaners complain the title is wrong! It's a video that will help me as I very rarely use this program. It will help as I've loads of 3D World mags, and 3D Artist mags with tutorials which this video will help me to complete. It's OK reading and following a tutorial; but here is now 'why I do this or that, whereas Alex does. Thanks Alex for an easy to understand tutorial. Subbed.

[@a.moevisuals]

drag that map from environment to one of the editor slots, then change it from spherical environment to Screen! used to have this problem aswel! hope it helped

[@kingofskateop]

What a nice tutorial it is. Simple, understandable and clean... Thank you!

[@Rampuniernix]

right: .. I would say: "perspective matching" hits it better... I also assumed, that the camera might be a moving one.

[@glennevangelista]

Thanks for the tutorial! And thank you for keeping in mind the newbies to 3ds max. I learned a lot! I want to do something similar but with Vray. I hope u can add Vray and more compositing tutorials because i find your explanation clear and have a very good systematic approach on the subjects. Thanks!

[@AlexPTwigg]

You add the light probe globally through the environment tab. You then need to bring and instance of the texture into the mat. editor so you can set it up to spherical environment. If you can see though your object, it is probably set to Screen and not Spherical Environment. For a bit more info, check out my HDRI Lighitning video.

[@SalahDemeer007]

man i did great things with this tutorial im really satisfied with the results im getting!! Thank you very much!!

[@Sciffyan]

I agree. He has a sharp voice

[@kirchiftara3836]

MY BROTHER, YOU ARE MY HERO

[@paoloadrianoficial]

Whenever I use GMS, it softs notNice tutorialng like yours, even though it has the sa settings... It's just a buzzing noise. Weird.

[@MrZRager]

something wrong with matte /shadow/ reflection. when i apply it on the plane and render its still black. i think i did everything he said. any solutions?

[@Soluchi-InfiniteCoCreatorGod]

ps: the camera is moving, the car isn't, but it's camera tracked to the footage. It's still see through & i need to deliver this project soon. help me out with what to do?

[@kingiummina]

How much useful info in this video! Thanks!

[@laboratoriya]

Thank you. easy and educational, very detailed.

[@raramses8090]

this is a pretty nice video thank you very much for sharing it with us!

[@dulezdravkovicci5891]

Wish i thought of this a bit ago, but thanks, a lot.

[@marinos3flash]

thanks for the tutorial dude.Very useful info

[@mariodrechsler2618]

He should call this tutorial: Putting a 3d-object in front of a photo so that it looks like a 3d-object that is in front of a photo.

[@14heman]

I got up to 9:48 and got stuck.The shadow on 3ds max shows changes, but there's no shadows on the render. What effective ways could I try? Any help would be much appreciated. Is it due to the floor plane?

[@jaredj1423]

this tutorial saved my ASS!! thanx a bunch for making it for beginners

[@AAR3D0N]

Hi, Instead of adding the hdri to the material, how do you add it globally ? also even though i add the hdri within the enviroment i can still see through my object ? Thanks great tut

[@mfager94]

Same problem with me! But i just threw away that project and started over, and somehow, it just worked. But you might be in a bit of a hurry!

[@AtlasCho]

very informative video! thanks ~

[@SalahDemeer007]

great tutorial. Thanks alot for the effort!

[@dorihor74]

You are amazing! Thanks!!! I have learned a lot!!! ooooxo

[@Dynamitar681]

Hello and first of all great tutorial but I had a problem with the plane you place under your object. The problem is it doesn't blend within the scene. I can still see thru it but doesn't completely blend in. Can you give advice on how to fix it? Thank you in advance.

[@realityescaper4559]

thanks !!! It's very useful for the beginner like me :D

[@therealkevinleee]

how do i map out something else than a perspective like a difficult object so that my animation or whatever I make can interact with it?

[@MannyGonzalez]

Thank you... awesome tut... do you have anything similar using VRay instead of MentalRay? Cheers!!

[@thedeepest33]

Very useful,thanks

[@girishjangid4164]

Thank you sir

[@AdamAmbrus]

nice video, very well done, thanks :)

[@aivannecabrera3523]

My setup doesn’t play notes it just holds the soft and it’s really annoying lol any fixes ?

[@Samcamilleri_1]

It's the same process for video, i presume? Although slightly different.

[@IllusionSector]

No. He just eyeballed the grid, which is not at all the serious way of going about it. What the title implied turned out to be merely the tiny starting point of this tutorial. A more appropriate title would've been something along the lines of "Rendering a CG object into a photograph". :-\ Anyway, the proper way is to either use the the (pathetically dated) built-in Camera Match utility, or, if you are serious about it, an actual commercial camera tracking solution (plugin or stand-alone app). If you can't afford one, you can settle for DigiLab's less robust or comprehensive but still (most of the time) usable Voodoo Camera Tracker.

[@Soluchi-InfiniteCoCreatorGod]

My object is still see through. I'm using a Car model I found on the web. My settings don't start off as "Arch & Design", but Standard, on the material editor. I did everything you did on my car model and it's still see through. How do i fix it??

[@jakesnodgrass4924]

When I go to render the scene, the background is split in half and is showing two separate sides of the image. Why is this happening and how can I fix it???

[@myabhayg]

Thx man for tutorial, so use full

[@YahiyaJasem]

Thank you Alex!

[@Sprunki31516]

this is great sir. thank you..

[@Malmskaeg]

Your great man!

[@Mist9879]

when i choose the the background picture and klick on OK. the background is stil black, like there is no picture? What may be the problem? is it maybe the scale?

[@stepsstrings3536]

endorsent of the second option but it does exist.

[@ThaGlizzard]

you can do this in like 5min in Cinema 4d

[@raramses8090]

well please dont expleine with keyboard bottons but just telling from which menu and sheet can i find those command options

[@legar83]

'life styles of the rich and famous' sounding voice, hilarious!

[@stefanw2500]

What is this, manual camera matching? No no, I needed a tutorial for the automatic one.

[@VFXLtd]

Hey man, you know when you increase the size of the plane too much, somehow the shadow disappears. I've tried moving both the plane and the object vertically and horizontally but the shadow is still absent. Any ideas?

[@MSTheDev]

Thanks a lot!!

[@aleyshaaedo4774]

Absolutely!!

[@kristinamasyte2966]

thank u very much!!!

[@AddFilmmedia]

Alex, thanks for an excellent tutorial! A question though... Is there any posibility to render the Torus Knot and shadow as one file, with ALPHA CHANNEL as background instead of the JPG background? And in stage two use this file in a compositing, on top of a video track. I wish to be able to place the Torus Knot, along with its shadow, in a scene but without seing the Ground Plane or the background JPG. /Lars,

[@jasonpieper2925]

I have followed your video, but my background image renders way too large. I've used Shift+F, and it shows up right in my perspective view, yet the background renders zoomed in. Any suggestions to correct this?

[@GS3D]

+Jason Pieper go to your material editor. press 8 to get the environment map and drag that to a empty slot in your material editor. from there set mapping to screen. (default is spherical)

[@michawojcieszczyk9002]

Same here, this is just a "Ok this looks ok, I guess..."

[@Mist9879]

Why do i get the memory error when trying to pick a picture? Please help! Thank you

[@melloriddle2471]

thanks man

[@Albert60955]

thanks!!

[@alexilaiho1st]

this is not camera matching...

[@gaivskakashi]

then why do the objects and lights "match" the scene? he positioned the object, ground plane and lights according to the still image. manual camera matching. im no expert though.

[@alexilaiho1st]

look for real camera matching tutorials, where it shows you how to find the exact camera angle the picture was taken from. When you have that, and let's say you create a big box to create the building in this photo, it matches it perfectly, coz it has the same FOV etc. You will not be able to do that with what he shows in this video.

[@v453000]

awesome!

[@SparkMyke]

6:40 just what I came for Thanks a milli

[@fernw4486]

You didn't pay for the Unison MIDI chord pack, did you?

[@johnpaulgiles]

When I Try to align my plane with the image in the first instance my plane goes missing? Not sure if my zoom is messed up?

[@coca243]

i need help wen i render the image in the background is really zoomed in and im trying to get the whole image what do i do plz help thanks i got 3ds max 2014 thanks

[@benlefebvre5434]

You need to drag the bitmap into the material editor as an instance and change its mapping to "Screen". I hope this helps.

[@kenn8965]

I got the same problem too! Thank you!!! Great Help!

[@PhysicSticks]

im trying to import the picture i have as my environment map and in the render it keeps zooming into a specific spot. can anyone tell me whats going on here. I have the render set to view so i don't know whats going on...

[@calomontt]

I don't see the grid in perspective view, how to I turn it on?

[@relaxer8150]

press G

[@calomontt]

thanks!

[@scarypotato515]

when i render with the new image in the environment settings, it zooms in on a section and sometimes flips it. Im using exactly the same image as you,, help would be much appreciated :)

[@EverythingJdawg]

Hi, I have encountered a problem with my environment background. When I import the image to the background and render it, the background image is extremely zoomed in. I am new to 3DS Max so it can very well be a simple fix. Any response would be great!

[@sporedenstore]

***** If you go into "Rendering" at the top where File and Edit and those stuffs are, then to Enviorment you should be able to see your background image file there. Open up a material editor and drag the filename that is also a button to a material slot and chose instance. Then change the materials mapping to screen. If you don't have your image file on the enviorment window you should chose it first, then do as I said. This MIGHT be the problem.

[@StrintefilmReturns]

EverythingJdawg I had the same problem but I fixed it by loading the environment map into the material editor as Spore Denstore described and then choosing "Screen" as the mapping under the bitmap settings.

[@kenn8965]

I got the same problem too! Thank you!!! Great Help!

[@abad3sign]

thank you :D

[@tripios]

at 8:17 step my shadow has pixels in it why?

[@ThomasCramerVisualisierung]

I think this is NOT Camera matching - this is guessing and doing some try and error. I was looking for the actual Matching-method.

[@MannyGonzalez]

Alex, I am having trouble getting rid of the see-through problem on my model. Even with the reflect HDRi applied to the Special Maps Environment slot, it still shows parts of the image through. My image is a 360 spherical pano JPG, not a real HDRi. Does it have to be a real 32bit HDRi? :P Thanks

[@董文平]

长知识了 哈哈 thank u

[@cihanbilik]

it is not camera matching if you use another object perps can be broke

[@habitvhabitv8931]

how to link biped with other character

[@KitsuneShan]

This is not the correct way to do camera matching on max. The camera isnt matching really. You may not notice too much in just a knot, but if you do a building it will be out of perspective completely lol

[@abb890]

RIP original comments

[@msn791]

this is matte shadow , don't camera matching !!!!

[@joelmirsaenz2686]

Be consistent, make mistakes, experint

[@i_am_a_real_cat1443]

Hi Alex Twigg

[@RVArq]

IT SAYS nothing about cameras !!!!!!!!

[@markjaysongalang0699]

RIP headphone users

[@odd357GsOuOcGkLsE]

blender ftw! =D

[@tuhoangcong4504]

Hi, have you come across "Photo SFXart Tricks" (just google it)? There you will find a useful free video demonstrating the way to shoot impressive photographs. It made it possible for Joe to make photos which have a jaw-dropping-effect whenever you take a look at them. Hopefully it works for you also.

[@TikiToyLabs]

thanks for bait and switch. Not camera matching.

[@MronkDotCom]

warning! giant poo on the street: kzbin.info/www/bejne/anWthIyXp9mVrLc

[@TheTotaso250]

...mmm but as far as I can see this is 3ds max so your comment is useless

[@fractalelement857]

5:38

[@ThaGlizzard]

cool. Dont have to get your panties in a twist. im just saying

[@brandonj1914]

that would be a lot easier if you were using blender; blender.org.

[@masterdave73]

This is not a proper camera matching, it's by eye. The title for your tutorial should be Camera Map and matte background not Camera Matching. Interesting though but misleading