Rendering a diamond as photo-realistically as possible is a 3D challenge. Light doesn’t just bounce off an object; it enters it, bends, changes color, bounces back and looses intensity. To achieve all ... more

Hello every one. And welcome to my tutorial on how to produce a dome based lighting efect. In this tutorial I will show you how to light up your scene using dome based lighting in Maya 8.0. I Iove ... more

First create a spotlight. Change Decay Rate to Quadratic. This will give us a more realistic falloff to our light. To compensate for this falloff, increase the intensity to 50000. Increase the cone angle ... more

DGS stands for Diffuse, Glossy, Specular. DGS materials are used to simulate materials with physical accuracy. It’s the combination of these DGS materials with Global Illumination that produce those 3D ... more

I know many people are using the physical_light. Usually they use it with the intention, well, to obtain physical correct renderings. I’m sure most of them don’t know that sometimes they put the fox in ... more