In this tutorial I would like to show you how to make an interior scene using 3dsmax 6 and rendering with Vray . Certainly you can use other version of 3dsmax and Vray but it’s possible that you will ... more

Light caustics are light shapes created on the floor when light passes through certain glass objects such as a drinking glass. We are going to create this effect in 3D Studio Max by using the Mental Ray ... more

Hi, I have done a tutorial on my blog about how it should be used more efficiently the VRay camera and some details about different settings and their corelation with the real life DSLRs. also some lighting ...

Exterior fake Global Illumination with dirtmap and Photoshop! Another mini-tutorial for our readers: A simple guide to faking GI in post production by Branko Jovanovic (a.k.a. d.sign).

This is a tutorial how to make a exterior lightning and render with mental ray . This scene was modeled in 3D max 7 and rendered with mental ray 3.4, the unit is in meter.

Hello there! In this tutorial we’re going to make a "simple" Sub Surface Scattering effect, to use for smoked glass, or simple wax. We’re going to use the Mental Ray render that comes with max 6, where ... more

The common Blinn and Phong shaders simulate the specular highlight on a surface, but they will always create mostly round highlights. In real life, the specular highlights are not perfect circles, they ... more

This video shows how easy is to setup caustics in Final Render within 3dsmax.

Although acceptable global illumination results may be obtained by using the environment color as your basis for lighting a scene, using a solid color, or even a gradient map will still produce a only ... more

This is the first in a series of Final Render tutorials that will cover the basics of global illumination, HDRI, ray tracing, lights, caustics and sub-surface scattering. In this first, two-part lesson ... more