Q: Can anybody tell me how to set up 3DS R4 to render a scene in black and white only? Any help would be much appreciated.

A: You have these options:

  • You can assign a self-illuminating absolute white color to all objects in the scene and render on black background. For real B&W turn anti-aliasing OFF. This is the easiest way for creating animated wipes for VP (as found on the World-creating Toolkit CD)

  • GREYS.IXP by Pyros Partnership - you will find a demo and a doc on my IPAS index page Rendert**ls
    You will have to set the number of greys to 2 for B&W I believe...

  • MONO.IXP on Yost Disk #1

  • If you are using .GIF or .FL* output, you can use a custom palette to force B&W or greyscale output

  • You can use a third-party paint program to convert to B&W if you output still images or like hard work... ;o)
    Addition

  • You can use Autodesk Animator Studio for Windows

  • You can render with Alpha ON + Split Alpha to get a separate B&W file.