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3ds Max Video Tutorials 3D Modeling Car Rim

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Free 3ds Max Video Tutorials by CG artist, Travis Williams 
 
 
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CGIndia bring you quite Useful and Free video tutorial for 3ds Max Users. The video tutorials is created by CG Artist Travis Williams who shows how to 3d model a Rim of Car using 3d Studio Max. If you like to share your knowledge with CG Community and have any tutorials, we will be glad to feature them on our website along with description about author and website link. Send your tutorials to cgindia@gmail.com (# Right Click on Tutorial video's link and save target as! ) 
 
 
3DS Max Tutorial : 3D Modeling Car Rim : 
This is quite a useful 3ds max tutorial which explains, the 3d modeling process of a Car Rim in a very detailed manner. This is a very common way of modelling a Car Rim so you may have already seen tutorials like this. I have chosen to record this using the program Camtasia Studio so that you can see me modelling this from from Start to End showing you some of my Techniques. I have done the Modelling in 3D Studio Max 7, but can be done in almost all versions of 3D Studio Max. 
 
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Downloal Video Tutorial - <a href="http://vp.video.google.com/videodownload?version=0&secureurl=ugAAAAdVHDjLWjU5Q_tTrd9qYPKwrChpnLcq5j4pvwxRo7lFap4OVMkf7KoSCLyQwgjDKMSVwzJ9hzLUBJPvQ-4tDeVddIOV3VVKCV0V8BA-xdftpdU7GO6a-5BIUG89XmwHYAs4uHqvqRYp1L9yd7cSLEM3U_Lgd9oMfsuCpwvVGx-PLderfxltNgTs4wOxwVEbWcfLRvpQygSrwIYB6HgkihugXPQTNbcV3roi1m7Mp9E-0kZeXY95uJwzWfNGMelvXw&sigh=Re37J9bsaGzRm6IWMop2AEAPgjA&begin=0&len=4903733" target="ext"> Click here <img height="10" src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b341/3d187/thvideo1.gif" width="10" /></a> 
 
Download the Reference files - <a href="http://cg-india.com/upload/reference_rim.rar" target="_blank"> Click here! </a> 
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Author: Travis Williams 
Email: mayhemation@hotmail.com 
About Author- My Name is Travis Williams and I am currently 27 years old and living in South Australia. I have been using 3D Studio Max since 2002 and been learning the program ever since. I mainly do this as a personal hobby but have also done some freelance work on request. 
 
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3ds Max Video Tutorials 3D Modeling Car Rim

3ds Max Video Tutorials Free 3ds Max Video Tutorials by CG artist, Travis Williams CGIndia bring you quite Useful and Free vide...

The Making of - "A Morning In Province" Using 3DS Max + V-Ray by Julien CHIARI

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<img src="http://cg-india.com/images/Julien/prov_header.jpg" title="3ds Max +Vray Tutorial - Making Of Province" /> 
OVERVIEW 
 For this 3D Scene, I have took reference from a very nice Photograph, which i have found in a magazine. The whole 3d Scene is done in 3D Studio Max and using V-Ray Rendering engine for achiviving realisim in the scene. I have divided the whole process into four parts : 3D Modeling, Texturing, Lighting and Rendering. And Try to explain the steps i have used in making of " A Morning in Province". 
 
3D Modeling ; 
 
The most part of 3D modeling in this scene is pretty much simple and old fashioned, besides certain area's and portion of the scene has to be emphasized and lots of attention should be given to amount of detailing for them. As every thing in the scene is quite close to the camera or in focus, so a level of detailing should be maintained, besides emphasizing certain portions. 
 
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To increase the realism of the ground, a little displacement is required. For this, I have added a VrayDisplacementMod modifier on the ground. 
 
<img src="http://cg-india.com/images/Julien/prov_1.jpg" title="" /> 
 
Than, I added small stones on the ground at the places where they are sensible to accumulate a little more (near the steps and the walls).. 
 
 
In Front facade, I have added lots of details on wall; in editable polygon mode (you may also model the building using solids, and later convert the Mesh to Editable Poly) . I cut out with the tool Cut and move the vertex. Than change the smoothing group of the detailed area. 
 
<img src="http://cg-india.com/images/Julien/prov_2.jpg" title="" /> 
 
More Details has been added to steps and other area's using the same method. 
 
Here is the wireframe Screen Shot : 
 
<img src="http://cg-india.com/images/Julien/prov_3.jpg" title="" /> 
 
 
Texturing / Mapping ; 
 
I have Unfolded of the UVW mapping in 3D Studio Max and save the UVW in a Bitmap, for modifing and fine tuning purpose. 
 
<img src="http://cg-india.com/images/Julien/prov_4.jpg" title="" /> 
 
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I open the saved bitmap of the UVW in Photoshop and mix several texture layers and photographs to obtain desired level diffuse for final "Diffuse Map" texture. I improved the sharpness of this texture and added another layer to make texture for “Bump Map”. To obtain a good quality of texture when rendering, I used a resolution of 2048x2048. 
 
<img src="http://cg-india.com/images/Julien/prov_5.jpg" title="" /> 
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Bump Texture : 
 
<img src="http://cg-india.com/images/Julien/prov_6.jpg" title="" /> 
 
Lighting 
 For the lighting of the scene I used only 3 lights: 2 directional spots (1 and 2) and a VrayLight Dome (3). The Dome to simulate the ambient light coming from the sky, slightly tinted in blue. 2 directional spots to simulate the sunlight, slightly tinted in yellow. The first spot to light the whole of the scene and the second right for the branches in foreground. These branches do not project shadows on the scene. The shadows of foliage come from three plans (with a mask of opacity) placed in front of the spot.. 
 
<img src="http://cg-india.com/images/Julien/prov_7.jpg" title="" /> 
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Than, I applied a small blur to the mask so that the shadow of the foliage becomes little blured, for making it look more realistic. 
 
<img src="http://cg-india.com/images/Julien/prov_8.jpg" title="" /> 
Rendering; 
 
I have Used VRay Rendering Engine for obvious reson to making the whole scene look as realistic as possible. Check the Images (below) for the Vray Renderer, GI and irradiance mapping Parameters. 
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<img src="http://cg-india.com/images/Julien/prov_9.jpg" title="" /> 
 
I have also added a small depth of field. The focus is done from the target of the camera by activating - Get focal distance from camera. 
 
And here is the Final Rendering Output in Vray without any compositing or Touch-ups! 
 
<img src="http://cg-india.com/images/Julien/prov_10.jpg" title="" /> 
Render time : 8 H 42 min. 
Hardware : Pentium 4 CPU 3.20GHz, 1.50 Go RAM. 
 
Author - Julien CHIARI 
Author Email - julien.chiari@wanadoo.fr 
Authors Website Link - <a href="http://chiari.3dvf.net/" target="_blank"> http://chiari.3dvf.net/</a> </div></div>

The Making of - "A Morning In Province" Using 3DS Max + V-Ray by Julien CHIARI

The Making of - "A Morning In Province" Using 3DS Max + V-Ray by Julien CHIARI OVERVIEW For this 3D Scene, I have took refer...

3DS Max Material Tutorial - Leather

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Tutorial by CGIndia 
 
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CGIndia brings you another very useful tutorial for 3ds Max users. In this brief tutorial, <a href="http://www.florencedesignacademy.com/" target="_blank">Mario Malagrino</a> of Florence Design Academy explains how to create a Leather material in 3ds Max. Leather is one of the most used materials in the field of Furniture design. Especially for design of sofas or couches. It is quite easy to obtain a good leather material. The leather material quality strongly depends on the illumination in your scene.Before you start to create the leather in the material editor you must first analyze exactly the type of leather that you want to simulate in 3D Studio Max. After this step go to choose an image which has the pattern/texture of the real leather. Here in image below, you can see an examples of images/maps which allow us to create a perfect leather texture in the material editor. The first one is a simple image of a scanned paper, the second one is made with Photoshop. 
 
<img src="http://cg-india.com/Tutorials/Leather-3dsmax/4.jpg" /> 
 
Let's see the steps to create leather. 
First go to add the correct specular highlights. You must analyse the real leather and simulate the same glossiness and specular level in the material editor. There are no standard values. This settings depend on the type of leather and also on the illumination. If your light is very bright, you will have a very strong specular highlight in the rendering. To avoid this you must set a lower amount in the specular level slot. Choose in the diffuse slot the colour of your leather material. Now go to MAPS and click in BUMP on the NONE button. 
The BUMP map now allows you to create the leather texture. At this point you have many different kind of maps that you can choose. In this tutorial we will use or the BITMAP or the NOISE map. Both are very useful. 
 
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a.) If you choose NOISE you must pay attention only for one parameter: the size of the noise map. Usually it's very very small, often lower than the value 1. But this value depends again by the kind of leather that you want to simulate. 
In the BUMP amount slot in maps you are able to set the strength of the texture. Normally it is never more than 50/-50. In Rendering 3 you can see the result of the NOISE map. 
 
<img src="http://cg-india.com/Tutorials/Leather-3dsmax/5.jpg" /> 
 
b.) If you choose to assign a bitmap (an image) to the bump slot you must take care of the tiling value. It has more or less the same effect like the SIZE parameter in NOISE (you can assign to the object also a UVW Map from the modifier list and change the Gizmo size; it will have a similar effect like tiling). 
To have more control over the specular highlights in the rendering you can use after you have completed the scene a SPECIAL "MR Area Omni" light. After you have placed the light in the correct location right-click on the MR Area Omni and disable "AFFECT DIFFUSE". After this step this MR.Area Omni will create only specular highlights on the materials. We will use that MR.Area Omni ONLY to create the highlights that are normally visible on leather. In this way we have much more control of the position, color and brightness of the specular highlights. Disable shadows in that MR.Area Omni. This technique can be very helpful if you need more highlights than the existing light sources are already creating on the leather material. To avoid that this light affects all objects in the scene you should use the exclude option in the modify panel excluding all other objects which should not receive an additional highlight (you must select the light to do this) . 
 
<img src="http://cg-india.com/Tutorials/Leather-3dsmax/6.jpg" /> 
 
Photoshop 
Le't see how to create the leather texture of image 1. 
Go to Photoshop and create a new file. Go to the main tool bar to FILTER and choose Texture and then Stained Glass (image 7). 
 
<img src="http://cg-india.com/Tutorials/Leather-3dsmax/7.jpg" /> 
 
This will give you a texture like the skin of a snake. You will have 3 parameters in that filter that you can change. Basically this is already a "map" that you can use in 3D Studio Max as BUMP map. It will give you quite good results. 
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<img src="http://cg-india.com/Tutorials/Leather-3dsmax/8.jpg" /> 
 
To make it a bit more interesting you can return to Photoshop and duplicate the layer of the leather. Change the copied layer from Normal to MULTIPLY. This will allow you to add different colors on the original layer without losing the black leather shapes that the filter has created. Choose an irregular brush and try to create a natural looking brown color. 
Don't make it too clean, otherwise it will look very unnatural.Now after this step go to your Multiplied layer and decrease the opacity. Don't leave the black shape of the top layer too visible. Save the image as bitmap. Now you have 2 images. The first one which is only black and white and the second one with brown color. 
 
<img src="http://cg-india.com/Tutorials/Leather-3dsmax/9.jpg" /> 
 
You must place the brown one into the DIFFUSE COLOR slot in MAPS, and the black and white one into the BUMP slot (image below). If the leather effect is too sharp you can blur both images in Photoshop choosing on the main tool bar FILTER and than Blur: GAUSSIAN BLUR. The same can be done in the BITMAP settings from the BLUR slot. 
 
<img src="http://cg-india.com/Tutorials/Leather-3dsmax/10.jpg" /> 
 
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3DS Max Material Tutorial - Leather

3DS Max Material Tutorial - Leather Tutorial by CGIndia CGIndia brings you another very useful tutorial for 3ds Max users . In this...

3ds max :best 15 Tips&Tricks for 3D Studio Max

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15 Tips&Tricks for 3D Studio Max of the FLORENCE DESIGN ACADEMY+ Here you have 15 of the most used Tips&Tricks of the FLORENCE DESIGN ACADEMY (<a href="http://www.florencedesignacademy.com/" rel="nofollow" target="ext">www.florencedesignacademy.com</a>) to avoid mistakes, errors and imperfections in your projects. 
Tip 1.) 
Did you know that "architectural materials" and "self illuminated" materials are light emitting (for Mental Ray & Vray) ? If you apply them on a box you will get a similar effect as a "photometric area light" or a "Vray light". 
Tip 2.) 
Try to use always soft shadows in your renderings if possible. Hard shadows are looking always very fake. In "Mr Omni/Spot" scale the size of the light in the area light parameters (mental ray). 
In Mental Ray you have to use the "RAYTRACED shadows" ! 
In Vray enable in the Omni/Spot the "area shadow" and scale the size of the light. 
Soft shadows will take more render time ! 
Tip 3.)To have perfect shadows it is necessary to create all objects with real dimensions. 
Tip 4.)How to decrease render time for test-renderings: 
a) the main setting to decrease the render time is the image size. Normally I use 150x112 pixels as size. It is too small to see the object's details but its is perfect to understand the light conditions. 
b) Lower the Shadow quality ! 
c) Reduce the polygon number of the objects (try to use the optimize modifier if you don't have any meshsmooth modifier on the objects)! 
d) Reduce the photon number or/and the "sample" settings in the render engines. Vray/MentalRay/Brazil RS/FinalRender/ etc. 
e) Be careful with the amount of lights (too many lights will make the rendering very slow)! 
Tip 5.) 
Do not use editable MESH but ALWAYS editable "POLY". 
Editable Poly is optimized for advanced modeling , creates less errors than editable mesh and has many more settings than editable mesh. 
If you were working on a object with editable mesh , you can without problems convert it to an editable Poly object. 
Tip 6.) 
Instead to meshsmooth a box, use from the "extended primitives" a "chamfer box"... the result is the same, but the chamfer box" has less polygons ! 
Tip 7.) 
Sometimes all your Vertexes disappear during modeling of an object. 
To fix this bug try this options: 
a) Convert your object again to an editable poly. 
b) Convert your object to an editable mesh and then to an editable poly. 
c) Save the file, Exit from 3D studio and open again the file. 
d) Save the file, Exit from 3D studio and merge the object in a new file. 
Tip 8.) 
The best light to create Highlights is the Omni light (or MR Omni). 
Tip 9.)Do not use "area shadows" in Mental Ray, they are very slow and not optimized for Mental Ray. 
The best/fastest result is visible when you use Raytrace shadows. 
If you are working with the "light-tracer" than you can use "area shadows". The result is the same as in MentalRay with Raytrace shadows. 
Tip 10.) 
(for beginners) When you are working sometimes you can't anymore move your object. 
Probably you have pressed the key X. Press again X to enable the move tool (GIZMO). 
Similar problem: You can select only one object, all other objects can't be selected anymore: probably you have pressed SPACE and locked the object. Press again SPACE to unlock it. 
Tip 11.) 
When you create a "loft" object it can happen that the end or beginning of the object has an error. 
To fix the problem you should choose "CORNER" vertex on the first and last vertex of your spline. 
Tip 12.)Download ALWAYS the last service-pack for your 3D Studio Max version. It will fix important bugs. 
Tip 13.) 
There can be only 2 mistakes when your extruded (spline + extrude modifier) object has an error: 
a) you have overlapping segments in your spline. 
b) the shape is not closed-check where you did not weld the vertexes-. 
Tip 14.)If you use splines to create shapes, try to use a very small number of vertexes. 
If you convert the vertexes in smooth/bezier/bezier-corner you can create very organic and round shapes without a too high number of vertexes (same tip for loft in deformations-scale-panel). 
Tip 15.) 
If your interface/panel disappeared You have this options to fix the problem: 
a.) Maybe You are in the "expert" mode...press CTR+x... 
b.) Customize > Customize User Interface > Toolbars Tab > Reset! 
c.) "Start"button on windows > Autodesk > 3D Studio Max > change graphics mode ! 
d.) There should be a 3dsmax.ini file in ur max folder...delete it and start 3D Studio Max again... 
e.) Customize > load custom UI scheme.</div></div> 
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