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Breakfast lighting

TDT3D cg free training : Breakfast scene with omni lighting.

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V-RAY TUTORIAL - Studio Lighting Explained

CGIndia.org brings to you a new V-Ray Studio Lighting Tutorial, especially for the guys who want to get photoreal. In this V-Ray + 3ds Max tutorial, Kádas Géza explains in step by step method of lighting the interior scene. Geza with the help this tutorial explains the various stages involved, in the creation of photorealistic 3d Rendering.

Rated: with 3984 hits  Added on: Feb 27, 2007

Realistic snow shader with mental ray lighting (sunset)

My goal was a realistic looking snow shader but i also wanted to keep things simple, so instead of using complicated SSS shaders i decided to just use a standard material, which turned out pretty well actually!

Rated: with 4148 hits  Added on: Feb 18, 2007

Illuminate Interior using Exterior Light

When it comes to lighting a 3D-scene, the light-setup can either make or break the scene's realism

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Efficient Use of Vray Camera

How do you make a picture in real life when the light is too dark

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Architectural Visualization

Illuminate an exterior architectural scene with help from Vray and a HDR Image

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Vray 1.5 dirtmap tutorial

This tutorial will be focusing on the dirtmap material which is included in vray version 1.5. I always like to use this material in my renders to add a little more realism. You need a basic knowledge of 3ds Max and vray to complete the tutorial.

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V-ray material workshop

Material Workshop about basic material settings in vray explaination and examples of use of different value of reflection and refraction, bump and displacement. IOR and Reflection tables of common material. 30 materials in zipped form.

Rated: with 5682 hits  Added on: Nov 19, 2006

V-ray Studio Lighting and material

Lighting Studio applied after completing precedent tutorial about materials. Fascinated by the work of Kevin Tiell after reading an article apperead in boingboing I tried to "replicate" a realistic POV pinball using also DOF and camera settings to match his photos.

Rated: with 5561 hits  Added on: Nov 19, 2006

Understanding IES Lights

Understand the exact working of IES lights in 3ds Max in simple and small tutorial.

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V-ray HDRI settings in 3dsmax (not another pool ball :)

I started this project while I was trying to render some glass in the mini-challenge of CGTALK.Window and Kleinbottle are not modelled by me but taken from the site of the competition. I wanted to use V-ray and GI and I found some tutorials on the web about V-ray and HDRI but all of them were about pool balls. I needed also to learn a simple texturing and in my room there is a matryoshka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll that smiles at me near my 3d books and so I decided to model it and see what I could achieve learning a bit more about settings of HDRI and DOF in V-ray (www.chaosgroup.com)

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Reflective Caustics

In this tutorial we will create uneven, shimmering light patterns on the nearby walls of swimming pool using reflective caustics. We will use photons to create this effect.

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Clay Style renders AND Wireframe overlays

This tutorial shows 2 different ways to make Ambient Occlusion style renders. It also shows how to get a w-i-p look by showing a wireframe overlay to show the geometry of your model.

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Diamond Caustics

The use of Caustics to handle refraction of light as it passes through a diamond and onto its supporting surface.

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Using an HDRI for Reflections and Lighting (part 2 of the "Making an HDRI of your own" tutorial)

This tutorial shows you how to easily use hdri image in a 3d scene using 3dsmax, the Splutterfish HDRI loading plugin (for older versions of Max) and Brazil/Rio.

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Making an HDRI of your own

The goal of this tutorial is to show you how to make your own hdr image, and then (optionally) use it for either lighting, reflections or both in a simple scene. This tutorial uses max 5, and in this case, uses brazil for rendering. Although the concepts are pretty universal here, since the main goal is the creation of the hdr image.

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The Brazil Light and Brazil Camera

An in-depth explaination of how to use the Brazil light and Brazil camera

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Sky-Dome

This tutorial is simply a different approach to lighting in Mental Ray. It's not the only solution or the right solution for every scene. A textured hemispherical dome is NOT a requirement for GI in Mental Ray.

Rated: with 8203 hits  Added on: Jun 14, 2006

Rendering better cars, a tutorial.

Master the skills required to turn 3D models into professional-looking automotive renders with this set of expert tips from 3D World

Rated: with 5436 hits  Added on: May 23, 2006

Easy sunlight creation

Hi all! I was just surfing through some 3D sites and I came across a sunlight-faking-tutorial. I must say, no hard feelings, that the tut that was posted at "the3dstudio" was REALLY overdone... I saw 30 to 40 lights.... I have an extremely nice computer, but , as you will all agree, sometimes your scenes are already slow rendering, even without the lights!! So I know a way to fake the sunlight faster, less heavy to compute and even better than the pictures I saw... Let's get the show started..:)

Rated: with 7620 hits  Added on: Apr 25, 2006