Car Paint Material
01 In this lesson we will improvise the look of the Metallic Paint Material that we created in the last lesson. Inside the ‘Slate Material Editor’ bring...
Category: VFX
Reflections with HDRI
In this lesson we are going to learn how to do reflections inside 3DS Max using HDR Images and Panoramas. In order to learn how to capture a basic ‘Panorama’ and ‘HDR image’ you...
Image Based Lighting
In this lesson we are going to learn how to produce realistic looking renders using Image Based Lighting. IBL is basically a 3D Rendering Technique which involves attaching a HDR Panoramic image of the...
Panoramic Images
A Panoramic Photograph can be described as a wide angle photograph of an entire surrounding area. It is basically a representation of an entire physical space in a single image. Generally Panoramas are created...
HDR Images
HDRI stands for ‘High Dynamic Range Image’ where Dynamic Range is basically the difference between the lightest and the darkest spot one can capture in a photograph. So we can say that HDRI is...
Camera Mapping in 3DS Max
In this lesson we are going to look at the camera mapping functions inside 3DS Max. We will learn how to project an image onto a geometry and then creating a 3D camera move...
UVW Unwrapping in 3DS Max
01 In this lesson we will be focusing on creating a cardboard box with the texture unwrapped on its surface, ready for skinning with a basic bone...
Adding Smaller Debris and Dust
01.1 We will continue by adding in a new group with the name of ‘Box Front Back’ while renaming the old ‘Box‘ Group as ‘Box Ryt Lft’. Remove the ‘Frnt’ and ‘Back’ geometry from the ‘Box Ryt Lft’ group and add...
Adding Forces and Debris
01.1 We will start adding forces by creating a separate dynamic set for each one of them, inside the ‘Main’ dynamic set. Rename this new Dynamic set as Gravity. Bring in the...
Fragmenting with Ray Fire and Thinking Particles
01.1 Fire up the file ’03_Box_Fragmentation_01′ from the project files. We will get a rough animated model of a Cardboard Box unfolding itself. We will now fragment this box using Ray Fire....
