How to render a car on top of a background image

In this tutorial we will learn how to render a car or any other object on top of a background image of our choice and how to render a image with HDRI. HDRI stands for high dynamic range imaging. It is basically a image that contains light information and can be used to light up a scene as well as providing reflections. For that purpose we must have a background image and an appropriate HDRI with the same scene light and reflections, or at least similar to our background. For high quality HDRI and backgrounds visit (https://www.maground.com/ )

1.Now first you have to have a model and a plane placed beneath it. The plane will be used only to receive shadows. In the top left corner of you viewport where it says Perspective click with the right mouse button and select “Show safe frame”

2.Now we will set up our render settings. You cab use the render settings from my STUDIO HDRI tutorial. Now go to your background image and see what are its dimensions and enter them in the Output Size of your render setup. For example my background image was 1024 pixels wide and 685 pixels high. After you enter the dimensions press the lock button on the Image Aspect. Doing so will assure that if you change one of the dimensions of your render output it will automatically change the other dimension and by so the image will preserve its original aspect ratio and the final image won’t be stretched.

3.Now go to the environment and effects menu or just press”8” and in the environment map slot select Bitmap and open your background image. Also make sure that you have checked the “Use Map” box.

4.Now press “Alt+B” and it should open a menu like on Fig 4. Make sure you have the same settings.

5.Now select the plane that is beneath our object and click on it with the second mouse button and select “ Object properties”. In the newly opened menu check the setting like on the following picture:

3ds max render background image beginner detailed hdri rendering tutorial

Comments (7)

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   Reply By mohit on September 1, 2011

   dear brother how u put soft shadow in the scene. r these with the help of vray sun or some other light. please help on mohitarnold@gmail.com

   regards

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     Reply By ludwig770 on March 1, 2012

     Use a Vray sun, and turn the size multiplier up in the modify bar. The higher the size, the softer the shadow….

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   Reply By mxr7 on September 21, 2011

   this site is amazing!!!!! love it

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   Reply By Alberto on October 10, 2011

   Gracias por el tut, bien contado, claro y muy util…un abrazo desde Argentina.

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   Reply By nitin pasbola on January 24, 2012

   perfect….. i try it on my homes image

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   Reply By yasir jamal on March 26, 2012

   Thank you very much!
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   Reply By BENNY BANASA on April 24, 2012

   Hi I’m a beginner on Vray. what material should I use for the car.
   Thanks