May 23, 2006

  “Creating a Stainless Steel Material” by Montree T. This tutorial was written from my experience working on metal materials personal observations and from photographs.There are 3 important things to remember when you create a stainless steel material.1. Strong HighlightAlthough the metal shader is the easiest way to create a stainless steel...

May 14, 2006

“Modeling a Barcelona chair ” by Montree T. 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D furniture we recommend to use high quality photo references from the #1 texture website www.environment-textures.com 1. Create a Plane or Quad Patch. 2. Assign an edit patch modifier or convert to an editable patch and adjust the bezier...

May 12, 2006

  “Faking HDRi” by Radoslav Zilinsky Today, I’m going to introduce you my method of faking HDRI images for reflections. Have you ever say “if this nice image could be a HDRI map.”.At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to make fake HDRI from every picture you have and result will be quite similar to real HDRI...

May 12, 2006

  “Vertex painting ” by Radoslav Zilinsky Hi, I’m Radoslav Zilinsky from Slovakia and i’m going to explain you the method of blending procedural materials with vertex paint modifier that is located in max from version 6, so even though I use 3dsmax 7, you wont have any problems with 6. Procedural materials are very powerful and...

May 12, 2006

“Advanced lighting techniques 2 ” by Montree T. 5. Playing with light multipliers and shadow density 5.1. Negative multiplier parameter of light changes the light to be a shadow. When we create a large scene some object’s shadows may not appear correctly and some may be missed. A good way to create an accent shadow on an object is to place a...