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Siny Chrome Things
in 3D Tutorials
Siny Chrome Things

I'm sick of the "Fractal Reflections" look. How do I make realistic chrome? First let's think about why the Fractal Reflections image looks fake. The Reflection Image effect is also called Environment Mapping. That means it's supposed to simulate reflections of...

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Refractive Glass Things
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Refractive Glass Things

How can I make realistic glass in LightWave? Refraction in Lightwave - To make realistic refractive objects, you have to understand how Lightwave handles refraction. As a light ray bounces around in your scene, Lightwave keeps track of the refractive inde...

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Multi Sub-Object
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Multi Sub-Object

Step 1. - Reset 3D Studio Max Step 2. - Go to the Front View Step 3. - Go to the Create Panel and make a cilinder. It does not matter what dimensions, whatever your like. Go to the Modify Panel and set the height segments to 3. Now that you have done that you should ha...

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Sliders and Wiring
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Sliders and Wiring

Using parameter wiring and sliders is a very quick and easy way to create dynamic and efficient time savers allowing you to use a predefined interface to control values of objects which would otherwise waste precious time getting to. In this tutorial i will cover what you need to set up sliders and ...

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Splines
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Splines

Welcome to this introductory tutorial about splines! Splines are a powerful modeling tool, which has it's pro's and con's, but for me until now, I have found mainly pro's. Modeling with splines is very different from box/polymodeling, but in the end the results will be much alike.

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Shapemerge
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Shapemerge

Ok, here we go with our first 3d tutorial, with what I think is one the most powerful weapons in a 3d modellers toolbox; especially for adding much needed detail, as most 3d models are too bland and dont look good close up.

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Shockwave Tutorial
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Shockwave Tutorial

This time around I will show you how to do a pretty good looking shockwave effect not using plugins. So start max up and create a tube object with radius 1 -70 and radius 2 about 50. Set the height about .6 or .7 high as we want this to have some depth. Also give it about 70 sides.

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A Simple Rubber Boat
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A Simple Rubber Boat

Step 1. - Reset 3D Studio Max Step 2. - Go to to the Top View Step 3. - Go to the create menu, shapes and select Line. Make sure that Initial Type and Drag Type are both on 'corner': they are in the Creation Method roll-out of Line. This is essential, because we do not want roun.......

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Radiocity Tutorial
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Radiocity Tutorial

Radiosity & HDRI explained Image 1- HDRI lighting (high dynamic range image) Image 2- Skydome lighting(indirect lighting) o.k, here we go..... one of the hardest things to do in 3D (for me at any rate), is lighting your scene in a "realistic" way. That is, not to be photoreal, but so t...

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