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Smoke - as easy as it gets

I was once desparate to make clouds, fire and smoke for a project and after looking long at hard at several tutorials that alleged to teach how to do this, I was still unable to get the results that these tutorials promised me. As revenge, I submit this complete tutorial and promise that, come Hell or high water, beginners out there like me WILL get a result of smoke.

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3d model couch sofa max tutorial

Here I will teach you about 3d model couch sofa max tutorial

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Fake GI

In this simple tutorial you'll learn how to make ’’Fake Global’’ illumination (Fake GI) without using any 3rd party render which nearly is the same quality as using GI’s but less time consuming to render.

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Snowy Landscape

Learn how to create big landscapes covered by snow.

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Compositing: Behind the scenes

The idea was to have a ball roll down the hill and crash into the rock statue knocking it to pieces...

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Kienzan! Dragonball-like effect part

I made this video tutorial to mimic the Kienzan---special ability of Kuririn in Drgaonball manga. This tutorial is very easy, good for beginner and interesting.

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The Making of The Castle

This is a making of document of the castle I made. I tried to explained the techniques I used for modeling, texturing, lightning, rendering and composing. I used 3d Max + Vray and Photoshop

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Making a Head in 3ds max

A tutorial about Modeling & texturing a head in 3ds MAX by Jiri Adamec.

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Lighting with mental ray - 3dsmax Tutorial

This tutorial explains all steps to illuminate an object with a technique which simulates the illumination techniques of a photo studio.

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Polymodelling 101 - The Flashlight

With assistance from the meshtools scripts at www.scriptspot.com, this tutorial will show you how to create a complete black and decker flashlight (torch) end to end. Sounds dull? Nope. Watch this and understand how to make those polygons dance for you!

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"Bullet time" in 3DS MAX w/o scripts

Trinity hangs in the time and the space. Neo dodges flying to him bullets. All this CG effects shook millions of spectators all over the world. Now nobody can be impressed by them. But suitable using them will give your animation some piquancy. How to make effect of frozen time in 3DS MAX?

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Using VRay Global Illumination GI (Realistic Lighting)

This short tutorial on how to use VRay's Global Illumination feature will show you one method of creating realistic looking lighting for a scene.

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Procedural Shaders: Update on Lava

What I plan to accomplish in this tutorial is showing the power of procedural shaders and masking as well as trying not to make it too confusing at the same time.

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Electric Gun

Lightning effects are normally best handled by a plug-in solution, but with a little effort and 3ds max 6’s new Particle Flow system, we can produce comparable results.

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How to get rid of vray rendering artifacts

MetinSeven present s the ultimate checklist to get rid of unwanted spots, blotches and splotches when using Vray's irriadiance map for global illumination.

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Flat Metallic Surfaces

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)

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Head Modeling in 3ds max

This tutorial will describe how modeled the character from a sketch using edge loop method in 3ds max

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Weapon Modelling and Skinning

In this tutorial, you will be modelling a Glock. We will be using a reference image which is available for download. We will also be skinning the gun with this photo, a technique frowned upon by a few people, but I think it works effectively when UV Mapped correctly.

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Nemesis 2

Released to the free area after a long period. This tutorial shows you how to create your own attack drone, and then also how to create your own carrier ship in Max with IK rigged docking bay doors, weapon and a lot more besides.

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Glu3d in Fluids Simulation

These videos shows fluids simulation with the help of Glu3d Plug-in by 3daliens in max, working knowledge of Glu3d is necessary for properly understanding of these videos.

Rated: with 4664 hits  Added on: Apr 07, 2006