Tag Archives: material

easy neon effect

here’s a tiny little tutorial to easily create a neon effect.

create a surface shader in the hypershade and assign it to the object of your preference.
set the out color attribute to a bright color.
set the out glow color to …

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splutterfish offers free materials

nice. splutterfish finally offers now a gallery of materials where portrayed materials can be freely downloaded from their website to be used with their flagship product brazil r/s v2. definitely an added value for the users of this product …

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fed up with the bitmap path utility?

yes, i do hate the bitmap/ photometric paths utility in 3ds max, too. it’s just an annoying, slow, unusable tool. after years living with this inconvenient functionality i finally found a solution for my desperate needs: the “relink bitmaps” …

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build a pipeline from photoshop to the material slots

georg dümlein offers a production proven pipeline tool called psd2mat, which can be integrated within your 3dsmax workflow in a very easy way. basically it’s a converter of layered psd files into a scanline or vray material and named …

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vray special effect: rasterize material

man, i didn’t even think about that such a special effect material is possible to do when rendering with vray – i normally see such raster effects in compositing software or as plugins in image editing packages. really nice …

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Shadow Matte with V-Ray

Small tutorial how to create a Shadow Matte material within 3ds Max with V-Ray. Continue reading

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