Posts Tagged ‘3ds Max’
If Rhino, AutoCAD, Revit and 3ds Max are part of your work flow you will find some great video tutorials on this website: designreform.net
These direct links lead you to two of many excellent screencasts:
Learn how to link complex organic geometry that was modeled in Rhino into Revit as a mass element
This one shows us how [...]
Next Limit Technologies (Madrid, Spain) announced it’s next iteration of Maxwell Render. The manual as well as several plugins for integration into CAD and 3D design applications were updated too.
The Physical Sky system in Maxwell Render 1.7 uses an entirely new approach and has been greatly enhanced adding more parameters to control the look of [...]
A neon effect might be handy for your night time renderings to simulate signage and lighting.
This tutorial on Vray Elite uses the native V-Ray light material (VRayLightMt) as an illumination source.
This downloadable video tutorial uses a self illuminated standard material from max with a V-ray material wrapper (VRayMtlWrapper). Get it here at intrisia.net
You might as [...]
Chaos Group has posted a few new videos showing their realtime rendering used as an active shade renderer in 3ds max.
“The technology is based on a highly optimized raytracing core and is capable of generating fully raytraced images with global illumination at the fraction of the time required for normal rendering. At the same time, [...]
Nvidia’s recent acquisition of Berlin based Mental Images (the maker of the Mental Ray render engine) let’s us speculate if this is going to bring us a step closer to hardware accelerated real time global illumination?
Clearly this move will have some implications to the architectural visualisation and simulation market.
The Mental Ray render engine ships as [...]
This looks like a very promising application for Revit and 3ds max user:
“nPower’s Revit to Max bi-directional translation solution provides your design visualization team the most advanced Revit to 3ds Max translation tools on the market today. nPower Software’s precise surface and solid modeling technology plugs directly into 3ds max enabling an accurate data transfer [...]
Great tutorials on the architectural illustration process and workflow from AutoCAD to 3ds max / Vray to Photoshop.
3DATS Tutorials
I had the chance recently to use GroundWiz together with Vray for planting trees on a 3d model to simulate natural context on a 500m x 500m sloped terrain model. The GroundWiz plugin works great. You can basically paint hundreds of trees in a Photoshop like fashion onto a 3d surface in minutes. It’s such [...]
A script that allows you to change the properties of VRayMtls, VRayLightMtls, VRayFastSSS, Standard & VRayMtlWrapper mats across the scene, selection or material editor. I used it to change the intensity of many different light emitting, different colored objects across the scene. You can get it at ScriptSpot.
The Evermotion tutorials collection is always worth a look every now and then. There are lots of Vray tutorials with focus on architectural rendering.
