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Lighting and Shadow Basics - Part 2

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

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Lighting and Shadow Basics - Part 3

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

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Neon Light

this tut tells you how to create easily and quickly neon lights

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Lighting, Texturing, Rendering in 3DSMAX: Part 2

Welcome to the second and final part of this tutorial covering texturing and lighting in 3d studio MAX R4. This final part will concentrate on texturing methods, utilizing MAX's procedural textures.

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Lighting, Texturing, Rendering in 3DSMAX: Part 1

Welcome to the first part of a 2-part tutorial covering texturing and lighting in 3d studio MAX R4. This first part will concentrate on lighting and rendering, while the second part will cover texturing utilizing MAX's procedural textures.

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Occlusion pass guide

this tutorial covers everything you need to know about occlusion passes in 3 simplified parts.

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Fake GI

In this simple tutorial you'll learn how to make ’’Fake Global’’ illumination (Fake GI) without using any 3rd party render which nearly is the same quality as using GI’s but less time consuming to render.

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HDRI - High Dynamic Range Image

Learn how to use Hdri's in Max using V-ray and Brazil.

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Fake Shadow tutorial for 3ds MAX

Have you ever had a scene filled with high-poly models that produce slow rendering times? This tutorial allows you to create realistic shadow materials for objects, allowing you to improve rendering times without sacrificing quality.

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kitchen modelling & lighting

In this tutorial we will concentrate on the basics of mixing different modelling styles together to create a few units which we can further modify to complete the rest of the kitchen units at our leisure.

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Basic Lighting - A detailed introduction to lighting effects

Lighting is one of the most important aspects in 3D Studio Max. This tutorial will tell you the basics of lighting and how it affects your scene. This first picture is of a simple face rendered with one spot light facing it. There is no shadow and it looks pretty flat.

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Pseudo HDRI

Pseudo HDRI - tutorial on Pseudo HDRI.

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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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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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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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Ambient Occlusion 'Technical'

All you need to know about Ambient Occlusion.

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Lighting Tips

Nice Article for anyone who starting his/her career in 3D world of lighting..

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Dispersion with VRAY

Dispersion lighting in VRAY is explained in detail

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