Editor's Pick in 3D Graphics Tutorials, May 2006 Do you really want to impress your friends with some awesome special effects? Then how about teaching yourself how to make glass images with a really cool "frosted" look. Check it out.
So you want to do caustics? But either haven't got a software which can do them for you or don't need them ultra-realistic but fast?
Then here you go. This tutorial is done with 3DStudio Max 3.0 but can be done with any rendering-software which got the features you need for fake-caustics (tha.....
To get started: the grass in figure 1 contains ten, the hair in figure 2 and 3 960 faces.
So how do we achieve this? The answer is short and simple: alpha maps.
All images where created by using an alpha map like the one shown in
figure 4. (And the right geometry setup. ;) That's why the tuto....
This tutorial will give you an overview of what effects you can achieve with translucency.
Translucency simulates the effect of so-called scattering. This basically means that light coming from behind the object a) shines through to a certain amount (and with a certain color tint coming from the o...