Rendering Diamonds with Mental Ray - 3DS Max tutorial

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This tutorial will explore one of the many functions of Reactor in 3DS Max, which is a powerful tool that lets us simulate various real-life physics so that we can, for example, simulate physical behaviours such as wind and motors.

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a realistic glass material and turn our chess pawn into a realistic glass object. Key terms include reflection, refraction, opacity, and fall-off. This tutorial is aimed at the beginner, but since there are several ways to create glass, it might be interesting for everyone.

Use various of techniques to render a winter scene in 3dsmax.

This tutorial learn you basic stuff in Vray. This time ill show you a couple ways to get rid of the color bleeding in Vray.

Ever notice how a metal shader can look great on a curved surface such as a sphere, but that same shader looks bad on a flat surface like a cube? What's up with that? (the example below uses the default Metal Chrome material that ships with 3DStudio MAX)