Mar 10, 2007

“Studio lighting in Vray ” by Géza Kádas OVERVIEW In this tutorial i will tell you the method of studio lighting.For the rendering i used Vray 1.5rc3, the latest version of the program.This famous chair called “Corbusier” was modeled in 3ds max 9.With the knowledge of this tutorial you will be able to present your models in a more...

Feb 27, 2007

“Caustics in MentalRay” by Toni Bratincevic Before we start with tutorial please download the scenes that we will use in our training. DOWNLOAD THE SCENES INTRODUCTION So we meet again (for those who passed through my GI tutorial 😉 ). This time we will learn how to set the caustic effect in mentalray for maya. As you already know, the calculation of...

Feb 27, 2007

“MAX 101 – part 20 ” by Eric Maslowski   In the real world light bounces off objects transferring some of it’s energy to the surfaces it hits. This tutorial will show you how to simulate real-world lighting in your scene using radiosity. 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D rendering we recommend to use...

Feb 22, 2007

“MAX 101 – part 19” by Eric Maslowski   In this tutorial we will take a quick look at some of the shadow options 3D Studio Max offers and talk about the pros/cons for the different options. 3Dtutorials.sk recommendation: To maximise the realism of your 3D rendering we recommend to use high quality photo textures from the #1 texture...

Feb 21, 2007

“Realistic lighting with LDRI images” by Toni Bratincevic One of the biggest inventions in the last few years in realistic lighting solutions is the appearance of HDRI images and lighting the scenes with them. In my first tutorial on mentalray thematic, I have described the way how to use hdri images to light up the scene. As you already learned in...

Feb 5, 2007

“MAX 101 – part 18 ” by Eric Maslowski In this tutorial we take a look at photometric lights which are basically physically accurate lights. They use “real world” values for setting their properties and can create some great effects. While photometrics lights are often used for Global Illumination, they are also valuable when doing...