Tutorials 3ds Max : Lighting, Rendering
and Compositing Tutorials
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Advanced Lighting - Light Tracer
3ds max 5 has new Advanced Lighting features such as the Light Tracer.
In this exercise, you’ll use a Skylight and Light Tracer to add
realism to an outdoor scene. This is an intermediate level tutorial. You
should be familiar with standard lights and shadows in 3ds max before
doing this exercise.
Compositing a 3D rendered object into Video
This is a very simple tutorial demonstrating how to take 2D video footage
and composite a 3D animated object in the scene. I'm not going to
go into every specific MAX feature and option used, Instead I'll
be concentrating more on the actual process and flow of work and
files.
Compositing: Behind the scenes on Moa
The idea was to have a ball roll down the hill and crash into the rock
statue knocking it to pieces like a bowling ball striking down a bowling
pin ...
Compositing: Camera Matching
This tutorial essentially covers creating all the geometry that’s
in a photo and matching up the camera to the photo along with using camera
map and other useful max tools to make a complex 3D scene
Compositing: Giving Depth to Stock Footage
Lets say you wanted to make an explosion, blowing an object up and making
debris fly at the screen, of course rather than using CG fire which a
lot of the time looks, well... CG. You might want to use stock footage,
video footage of fire which you can overlay into your 3D scene making
the explosion look a lot more realistic.
Compositing: Pyrotechnics
This tutorial uses the bare bones of Max and Photoshop 5, I made sure
that this tutorial uses no advanced plugins or external programs outside
of these two applications so you can see and mimic what I do in this tutorial
without needing to get $1,000 of plugins and software to pull off the
effect.
Faking Global Illumination
Lighting techniques
irst Render
Well you got 3D max to open and now you want to make something. This
tutorial is for the extreme beginner, so it may seem easy for others.
First with 3d max open we are going to draw a ground plane, box, cylinder
and the famous teapot.
Glow Effects
This tutorial will teach you how to setup video post for output of glow
effects in Max 4.
Halfwire Tutorial
Here is a tutorial an how to render a half wireframe picture using 3ds
Max and photoshop.
Help for lighting in MAX
We have three different light types...
Projecting An Image
I imagine most of you know Photoshop and about Masks ...
Projector Lights, Gobos for a Headlight and a Forest Canopy
One thing I remember very well from the old 3dsdos manual was a section
on gobo lights in the lighting section. It described how you could use
a projector light to project an image through your light (for this lesson,
I shall use the terms Gobo and Projector Light to mean the same thing).
The example they gave was a very simple image of a tree, you place the
image in the light, and bam, you have this nice tree shaped shadow without
the need for expensive geometry off screen to make the shadow of the tree.
Cool.
Radiosity Lighting
Open up your scene. In this scene I'm using a lamp on a table....
Random Light Sequence
3ds max 5 Tutorial Random Light Sequence
REFRACTIVE EGGS
This information is presented by Marilyn Textrum, who won a Maxhelp.com
modeling challenge with her image of refractive Easter eggs. This guide
is not so much a tutorial as a chance to look at some expertly made materials.
Simulating Radiosity
Adobe Acrobat tutorial (.pdf)
Smoky light
Volume lights can be used to make a beam of smoky light.
Sunlight
3DS MAX 5 Tutorial Sunlight Animation
The Light of the Flashlight
Light beams
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