3dsmax Tutorials

Tutorial: Creating realistic hair with textured planes How to create hair, using no plugins, that looks stylisch yet realistic originally found on:  www.download3dmodels.com the advantages of using this method: -every render system is able to render them (unlike using plugi...

http://www.rethinkfx.com/tutorials/realistic-texturing

3ds Max: How to UVW Map and Texture, Part 1: Basics Part 2 is on the Next Page, be sure to click the button under this video!

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This is my first tutorial on anything so bear with me; I will try to be as complete as possible. I decided to write this tutorial for two reasons; firstly to benefit those in the online CG community who have helped me get started with their wonderful tutorials and advice as well as those just st...

This is my first tutorial on anything so bear with me; I will try to be as complete as possible. I decided to write this tutorial for two reasons; firstly to benefit those in the online CG community who have helped me get started with their wonderful tutorials and advice as well as those jus...

In the last 10 years or so we�ve seen lots of video games released that use low poly count models for the game play and then tell the story using pre-rendered cinematic sequences. The characters in the cinematics always look really nice with lots of detail and realism, but as soon as the game pla...

Satin Material By Neil Blevins July 15th 2004 This is a quick tutorial discussing a satin shader I made in brazil, and some of the thought behind making it.  While the example is brazil rendered, you can use pretty much any renderer / 3d app to get a similar effect. Someone came on t...

Leather Material By Neil Blevins June 15th 2005 Here's a tutorial on how to create a leather material. My tests were done in 3dsmax, but the theory of how to put the material together works for all 3d apps, and I've included at the bottom a max and maya example file. The basic ingredien...

Here's a tutorial discussing two materials, both using falloff, and how I made them. The first material is based on my Lifeline image.(image) First, download the file (r4) complex_mats_falloff_a.zip. This material is several layers, first, I used a cellular displacement map to make the big ...