Nir Sullam’s “Creating Hedges Using PARRAY”
Update 08-2009 : Sorry but this one seems to be offline now :(
Nice tutorial from Nir Sullam about making hedges with particle leaves…
Posted: September 23rd, 2008 under 3dsmax, tutorial.
Comments: 2
Fog Bias parameter test in Vray Material
I did notice this new parameter since the 1.5 Service Pack 1, and decided to make some test. Actually, this parameter does exactly what I need… but it’s quite hard to explain and an image will be clearer than thousands of word :
Let’s say that it quickens the darkening of the fog inside the material, like if it become exponential when the bias is set below 0. If you lower the bias too much, it’ll darken too fast and you’ll have to lower the multiplier accordingly.
The good point of the test is that it doesn’t involve any glossiness nor transluency, the rendering times were relatively low and the shadows of the object just perfect ;)
Posted: September 14th, 2008 under 3dsmax, material, tutorial, vray - 3dsmax.
Comments: 8
Tutorial/Making of Vincent Van Duysen Tower in Beirut
I had some request on how this tower image was done so here is a small making of this particular project. Even if VRay is not really required for this tutorial, it will be explained with some of this wonderful render engine functions.
Posted: March 9th, 2008 under 3dsmax, tutorial, vray - 3dsmax.
Comments: 31
Tutorial / Random object visibility in 3dsmax with MaterialByElement & Opacity
Zip file with illustrations & max 7.0 files can be downloaded here.
This simple 3dsmax technique is quite useful when you have to trigger the visibility of numerous objects. Instead of deleting “randomly” some elements, you apply randomly materials that are visible… or not. This is a very simple flexible method, and it works normally with any rendering engine inside 3dsmax. It doesn’t involve any script (although I think it can be improved with scripts) Read more »
Posted: October 16th, 2007 under 3dsmax, tutorial, vray - 3dsmax.
Comments: 12
Tutorial / Creating V-Ray displacement maps from hi poly tiling geometry
UPDATE : Zip file with illustrations & max 7.0 files can be downloaded here.
This tutorial is about making a displacement map out of complex geometry that can be then applied to any object, no matter his curvature (with the VRayDisplacementMod for example) to recover the hi poly look of the original tiling. Read more »
Posted: September 26th, 2007 under 3dsmax, tutorial, vray - 3dsmax.
Comments: 10