no matter what I set my rendering options to, it seems that 3ds max will not let me render a high-quality image. I tried rendering the attached image at 1920x1080 pixels, but it seems like it came out at 640x480. I’m not sure how to fix this, I already tried messing with the JPEG quality settings.

any suggestions?

3ds Max Design 2012/Maya 2012
Intel Core i7 3.07 GHz, 8gb RAM
AMD Radeon HD 6950
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 x64

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It looks very soft. I remember in Max 2009 Jpegs defaulted to saving with smoothing set to the max. If that’s the case, turn it right down. Or use a lossless format like PNG.

The image output dimenisions are set in the Rending Dialog.

I’ve never, and I mean never, had an image render at 640x480 when it is set at a different image size.

The only time that could happen is setting the Rendering Dialog to one size, then rendering through Video Post which has its own image size setting.

Tim Wilbers [FA]

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Visual Arts
University of Dayton
http://www.udayton.edu/
3ds Max: 7.5, 8, 9, 2008, 2009, 2010

It is just a joke; I’m trying to achieve something similar using Max 9 and Logarithmic Exposure and sampling filter twice the default value.

This post is a typical example of poor question.
If the post describing the issue doesn’t content the basic info, cannot be properly answered.

ivan

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This is what I believe is the culprit.
See the two renders (@640x480), it’s actually just one render, they are the same, just saved with a different smoothing setting for the Jpeg.

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thanks guys - setting the smoothing to 0 fixed it. now I can move on to the other parts of this project

EDIT: Here’s what I produced after fixing the problem (and adjusting the lighting a bit) It’s still a work in progress, but I still think as an untextured semi-city it looks pretty cool.

3ds Max Design 2012/Maya 2012
Intel Core i7 3.07 GHz, 8gb RAM
AMD Radeon HD 6950
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 x64

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