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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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Making a Nut-Bolt

In this tutorial we will learn how to make a nut-bolt using cylinder, helix and than applying Boolean operations.

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Brushed Metal Material

Brushed Metal is a metallic surface that's covered in small directional scratches that causes the metal's reflection to be anisotropic.

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Chrome Material

Here's a tutorial on how to create a chrome material in a number of different ways for 3dstudio max, although the theory will work for any renderer.

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Complex Organic Materials Using Falloff

Here's a tutorial discussing two materials, both using falloff, and how I made them.

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Complex Shaders Using Procedurals, The Green Tongue

Complex Shaders Using Procedurals, The Green Tongue

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Flat Metallic Surfaces

Ever notice how a metal shader can look great on a curved surface such as a sphere, but that same shader looks bad on a flat surface like a cube? What's up with that? (the example below uses the default Metal Chrome material that ships with 3DStudio MAX)

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Glass Material

Here's a tutorial on how to create a glass material. For my example, I'll use the Brazil renderer inside 3dsmax, although there are equivalents in any renderer that allows raytracing.

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Glazed Pottery Material

Here's a tutorial on how to create a glazed pottery type material. For my example, I'll use the Brazil renderer inside 3dsmax, although there are equivalents in any renderer that allows raytracing.

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Making Iron Rod Chair

In this tutorial we will learn how to make an iron rod chair using Splines and loft only. For seats we will use chamfer boxes.

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Making a quick Rack

In this tutorial we will learn how to make a quick rack using SPLINE boolean.

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Making a Chair

In this tutorial we will learn how to make a quick office chair using cylinder, splines and boxes.

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Afterburn clouds tutorial

if you werer wondering if afterburn is a good too to set some nice clouds to your scenes ; this tutorial is made for you.

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Advanced Afterburn Explosion

With this tutorial, you will learn to make realistic explosions using afterburn on 3dsmax.

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Basic Car Rendering setup with Brazil

"Ok , here is the first tutorial, I will try to keep it simple and short.. Its not so hard and after this tutorial you will see that it takes only 5 mins to setup a scene.. As the topic says this is a car rendering so you will need car model to render.. Fot this lesson, I will use an Audi TT"

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Coke can modeling hi-poly

Coke can modeling from nothing. Very good modeling.

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Mouse modeling

Nice mouse modeling. Using a box converted to poly

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Occlusion in 3ds max 7 (car)

Making a photo-realistic car whit out using GI.

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Modeling an Apple

In this tutorial, you create an apple. You will add a Taper and Displace modifier to reshape a sphere to look like an apple, then use additional tools to improve its shape and add a stem.

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Microscope Materials

Tutorial on how you may wish to go about making your own electron microscope material.

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