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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.

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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 6895 hits  Added on: Nov 19, 2006

Understanding IES Lights

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

Rated: with 9302 hits  Added on: Nov 15, 2006

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)

Rated: with 9941 hits  Added on: Sep 25, 2006

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.

Rated: with 4383 hits  Added on: Sep 12, 2006

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.

Rated: with 4148 hits  Added on: Aug 16, 2006

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.

Rated: with 3702 hits  Added on: Jun 16, 2006

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

Rated: with 3217 hits  Added on: Jun 16, 2006

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 12894 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 6108 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..:)

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Faking Global Illumination

Faking Global Illumination.

Rated: with 9978 hits  Added on: Apr 14, 2006

Semi-Outdoor Lighting

Step by Step tutorial for lighting a semi outdoor veranda.

Rated: with 8034 hits  Added on: Apr 13, 2006

Advanced Lighting Techniques Part 2

Advanced Lighting Techniques tutorials.

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Advanced Lighting Techniques Part 1

Advanced Lighting Techniques tutorials.

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Lighting and Shadow Basics - Part 1

Tutorials, tips and techniques for creating ambient light.

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Lighting and Shadow Basics - Part 2

Tutorials, tips and techniques for creating area lights and area shadows.

Rated: with 4872 hits  Added on: Apr 13, 2006

Lighting and Shadow Basics - Part 3

Putting it all together. Based upon parts 1 and 2 this tutorials put the techniques into practical terms.

Rated: with 7706 hits  Added on: Apr 13, 2006