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Windows - Glass material

Tut for creating a glass material for a vehicle.

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UV Mapping The Easy Way Tutorial

In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how simple and precise UVmapping can be using DEEPUV.

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Face UVWmap

The following technique will be about the relation between modeling and its UVWmap. Some beginners draw their 3D model by extruding from 2D shape and just use a simple UVWmap such as plane, box or cylinder type, however this may sometimes produce incorrect UVW mapping on surfaces and the result looks incorrect.

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Material Tips and Tricks Part 1

This tutorial will explain how to add more details to material easily while saving time, especially by adding another layer of 2D and 3D maps which are available in the program.

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Displacement Mapping

In this tutorial we will learn about displacement mapping.

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A Cloud Material

Clouds could be made out of a geometry based particle system, however a render friendlier way is to create a cloud material from procedural maps and apply it to a plane.

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Material Tips and Tricks Part 3

This tutorial details some tips and tricks when using reflection and refraction maps.

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unwrap minitutorial

small tutorial that explains the basic concepts of the unwrap

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Glass Material

Here's a tutorial on how to create a glass material. For my example, I'll use the Brazil renderer inside 3dsmax, although there are equivalents in any renderer that allows raytracing.

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Multiple Texture Mappings

Two of the most annoying problems associated with 3D object texture mapping are "stretching" and visible seams.

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Simple shaded wireframe renders

Using a simple gradient ramp texture & box mapping for a shaded/wireframe render.

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Clear glass material

In this tutorial we will make a Clear (Transparent) Glass material and then apply it to a few objects.

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How to create Clouds in 3ds max?

In this tutorial you will learn to create a fly-through of a realistic cloud tunnel that renders relatively fast, using 3D Studio Max with no plugins or 3rd party renderers.

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Leather with V-ray

How to make good looking leather for your chair.

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Creating Realistic Gold And Copper Material

Create Realistic Gold And Copper Material By Using Falloff.

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Glowing Material in 3ds max with Mental Ray

Glowing materials are very useful to create light effects. This kind of material is a light-emitting material

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Composite Maps

This tutorial will describe how to use composite maps in 3D Studio Max. Composite maps are a different way of putting decals/logo's on your object, other than having to unwrap it and make large bitmaps in PhotoShop.

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Wet Mud Mental Ray

In this tutorial first we will quickly design our environment for wet mud. For that we will use two planes, one with noise modifier applied for terrain and other intersecting that terrain for water surface. After that we will apply materials to get desire effect and use mental ray to render our scene.

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Watercolour Effect

Watercolour Effect.

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Texturing using the Multi Sub-Object Material

Learn how you can use multiple textures on the same object by using the Muli Sub-Object Material

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