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Terracotta Material

This tutorial will teach you how to create a realistic terracotta material.

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Entering Atmosphere

Learn how to create an object-entering-atmosphere effect.

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Refractive Caustics

Learn how to manualy fake refractive caustics using 3D Studio Max 5.

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Raytraced Area Shadows

Learn how to make raytraced area shadows whitout using any third party plug-in.

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Creating a Football

This tutorial will teach you how to model a football.

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Snowy Landscape

Learn how to create big landscapes covered by snow.

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Engineering Material

This tutorial makes use of 3ds max 5’s new Ink and Paint material, which allows you to create a variety of flat cell-shaded effects, but are mainly all solid colour.

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Creating terrain

In this tutorial you will learn how to crate terrains like those you see from the planes.

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Stream

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a stream of water.

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Stormy Sea Motion

Effective water motion is one of the most awkward things to master in 3D. So much so that most users tend to resort to a specialist third party plugin such as the excellent RealWave or RealFlow. But if you haven’t got access to any plugins (or money!), fear not. 3ds max can create realistic water motion quite simply on it’s own without any third party plugins.

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Earth maps

This tutorial will teach you what you need to know to create your own Earth, can be used for any other planet aswell.

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Blending landscapes into the horizon

Here you have some tips to blend your landscape to the horizon.

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Electron microscope rendering

In this tutorial you will learn all what you need to know to make your own microscopic scenes.

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Global Illumination

Faking global Illumination. This article was written with 3ds max 4 in mind. It should be noted that later versions of 3ds max (version 5) contains a built in global illumination lighting system..

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HDRI with 3DSMAX & Mental Ray

HDRI with 3DSMAX & Mental Ray (simple scene file for beginners). This is not a step by step tutorial , there is a downloadable scene file and you can see all the paramaters that I have used to create this image

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Making a Ceiling Fan

In this tutorial we will learn how to make a ceiling fan using splines, lathe and primitives.

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simple car rig

A very simple car rig for 3ds max using some nulls/dummys TSCC codec needed

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SL500 Texturing and Lighting

This tutorial uses 3dsmax 6+Mental Ray, Photoshop cs [although v7 definetly has the features used] Texporter and 3dtotal Total Textures 8

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Studio set-up in Mental Ray

This is a [fairly] basic tutorial for a 'studio' type light set-up, using 3dsmax7 and Mental ray that comes with it [3.3].

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CREATING CAUSTICS WITH MENTAL RAY

Cautics is a natural phenomenon which is light pattern seen when light transmitted through a refractive surface/volume or reflected off a reflective surface/volume. Caustics is also included in Mental ray capabilities of creating naturalistic effect.

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