VIDEO TUTORIAL: Creating Clay Renders with 3ds Max 2010 and mental ray

In this video, from “Production Instruction with 3ds Max 2010: Volume I”, we’ll take advantage of mental ray’s ProMaterials to create a nice clay render of the interior scene we’ve been working on. By rendering using the technique shown in this video, we can create a clean and clear render that showcases our work in […]

Leather material in 3D Studio Max

Leather is one of the most used materials in the field of Furniture design. Especially for design of sofas or couches. It is quite easy to obtain a good leather material. The leather material quality strongly depends on the illumination in your scene. Before you start to create the leather in the material editor you […]

Modeling a Stool in 3DS MAX

In this tutorial, I will show you how to model a stool in 3ds max Step 1 – Max Setup In this tutorial, I’ll be using 3Dmax. So first thing would be open-ing your max program and on the menu choose Customize>Unit Setup>Metric>Meters. Step 2 On the Create Tab, choose Box and enter this amount […]

Creating those darn door seams by Daniel Buck

To start off with, I assume that you know basic knowledge of 3dMax. I am using 3dMax5, and I am not sure how this will translate over to any previous versions. Anyway, on to the tutorial. All the instructions refer to the pictures below the text. First, we will create what will be the side […]

VIDEO: Modeling of Tennis Ball in 3DS MAX

Simple Modeling of Tennis Ball by Khuram Shahzad. Download video file Talk about this tutorial at the Forum >> 3DM3.comCopyright © Khuram ShahzadEdit by StrykerSource: http://www.3dm3.com

Video: 3d Max 2008 Mental ray exterior light & render setup tutorial

In this video tutorial of www.renderray.com, we will work on the Exterior Light setup, Render settings & HDRI, Environment Effects And Mental Ray Photographic Exposure Control setup to make a realistic and professional render. To download the sample scene go to www.renderray.com Renderray is an online cg community specialised in rendering, where you can download […]

VIDEO: Global Illumination and Final Gather in mental ray for 3ds Max 2010

In this video, from “Rendering with mental ray in 3ds Max 2010”, learn how to combine two of mental ray’s most powerful features, Global Illumination and Final Gather. Discover how to use these two indirect illumination algorithms together in order to render photo-realistic images fast and easy. Download video file Talk about this tutorial at […]

HDRI with 3DSMAX & Mental Ray (simple scene file for beginners)

This is not a step by step tutorial , there is a downloadable scene file and you can see all the paramaters that I have used to create this image. You can download the scene file and all necessary files (including HDR file and textures) by clicking the link.. 1.2 mbHDR_Max6Tut_EmreG.zip When you load the […]

Autoweight in 3ds Max

In this tutorial the viewer learns how to use Autoweight to create skin-weights automatically within a couple of minutes for a complete character.

Creating Normandy SR1 in 3DS MAX

Introduction In this tutorial I will show ho w to model Normandy Space ship from mass effect. Downloads Before you star you might want to download these files. Reference: Texture: Step 1 I will begin as usually by finding a reference for the model. I found this sketch on www.gamespot.com. When you making complicated things […]

Making of Toony in 3DS MAX

Hi everybody. In this tutorial we will see how we can design a lovely toon characters scene, light and render it. Also we will see what is composite material and how to use it. You need to know some 3ds Max essentials, but i tried to explain everything detailed. Used 3ds Max 2009, VRay and […]

Occlusion in 3dsmax 7

Introduction Computers and application software are evolving at a tremendous pace. New methods and technical improvements are being introduced with every software release and today creating photorealistic renderings is just a couple of mouse clicks away. Going back a couple of years, raytracing, particularly raytraced reflections, was nothing more than a fake simulation with the […]

Explosion Tutorial

This is just a quick and an efficient way of doing nice explosions.For this scene you will need 2 gizmo’s, 3 omni lights and 1 lens flare.First of all you will need 2 gizmo’s : 1 box and 1 sphere. As shown below: Add combustion(fire effect in 3dsMax R4) to both of them with the […]

Create a Tornado in 3ds max 4

Hi, I’m finally done with my first 3ds max- tutorial and I’ve tried to do it as easy to follow as possible. Well, you got to have some 3ds max experience. So, what are you waiting for, Christmas? :P Making the Tornadoshape Reset 3ds max (4). Create a Torus with Radius1: 60, Radius2: 2, and […]