May 23, 2006

  “Face UVWmap ” by Montree T. The following technique will be about the relation between modeling and its UVWmap. Some beginners draw their 3D model by extruding from 2D shape and just use a simple UVWmap such as plane, box or cylinder type, however this may sometimes produce incorrect UVW mapping on surfaces and the result looks incorrect. A...

May 23, 2006

  “Modelling a Terracotta Roof” by Montree T. I had an idea of how to draw roof tiles on a roof with editable poly, as one of my recent works needed a close up view of the roof and needed to be more detailed than a bitmap. The model is quite light and not very complicated. 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D...

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...