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Headlight material tutorial

This tutorial is for creating headlight material for your already modeled headlight, it can be square, round, or even "new" shaped :-)

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Chrome Billet material

Chrome material is quite easy. And this turorial shows how?

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Soft Shadows with Max5

Daniel Buck shows you how to get nice soft shadows in Max5.

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Modeling weld spots

This tutorial will show one way to model weld spots onto cylinders, like a tube chassis for a vehicle, or anything where 2 metal pipes are welded together in real life.

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Beauty is in the Details

So, how do I go about making "the details"? Here are a few thoughts and techniques I have learned through the years.

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Windows - Glass material

Tut for creating a glass material for a vehicle.

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Lofting (wires & tubular curves)

Basic tutorial for a modelling technique named lofting.

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Creating a Drilled Break Rotor

This tutorial will outline the method I use for modeling break rotors.

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Polymodeling: the basics

Polymodeling: the basics by Daniel Buck

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Fake Caustics Tutorial Part 2

Welcome to “faking caustics ” without using advanced rendering.

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Blurred Reflections and Refractions (Frosted Glass)

Blurry reflections and refractions are normally hardly to achieve. One common way to do them with 3dsMax is by using a very fine grain noise as bump map. This usually doesn’t give a satisfying result, so this tutorial will give you a method to do (nearly) correct blurred reflection and refraction in 3dsMax.

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Mental Ray Caustics

Basic tutorial which covers the need/use of photon maps as well as how geometry plays a role in the look of caustics.

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Simple shaded wireframe renders

Using a simple gradient ramp texture & box mapping for a shaded/wireframe render.

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Unlocking the glare shader in Mental Ray

Example of how to unlock the glare shader in Mental Ray. Same technique is used for any of the hidden shaders.

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How to create a PinScreen

We can create a pinscreen with not too much steps. We need to build our displacement map and apply to a plane, no more. VRay (3D Studio MAX) + Adobe Photoshop

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Vray basic settings

This tutorial will explain very briefly many of the vray render settings. A very basic 3D Studio Max knowledge is needed to be able to follow the tutorial.

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Vray material settings explained

This basic material settings tutorial explains almost all material parameters of the vray material.

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HDR-images in Vray

In this tutorial you will learn how to set up an HDR map in Vray.

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Standard studio lighting in Vray

This tutorial will provide a general workflow for a standard studio lighting setup: create the environment, place lights, adjust render settings.

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Glass and liquid whit Vray

You will learn how to model and render a glass filled with liquid.

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