3DS MAX Foundations: Lighting & Materials is a video tutorial kit that covers lighting and surfacing techniques under the 3DS MAX platform.




The topics covered range from Scanline rendering to Final Gathering and Global Illumination using Mental Ray. Various examples explore serveral surfacing techniques to generate intricate material networks, ranging from Procedural mapping to masked Photoshop texturing.

This kit is comprised of 41 videos and runs for more than 5 hours! If you already bought ArchiCD and enjoyed it, then this is the natural evolution to refine your lighting and surfacing skills.

As a bonus, several modeling tips are included as strategies to make your model react better to light, such as filleting and chamfering of irregular objects.

Topics Covered
Light Manipulation workflow
Include / Exclude
Decay / Attenuation
Hotspot / Falloff
Shadows
Screen set modeling
Screen set lighting / Area shadows
Stroboscope Effect
Displacement with MRay
Falloff map
Water splotches on wood
Cave Modeling
Cave Materials
Cave Lighting
Deep water
Theatrical Projection
Old movie Projection
Flickering movie Projection
Faking Global Illumination
Ambient Occlusion
Procedural Mapping
Procedural Mapping Lights
Skylight 1
Lighttracer
Final Gathering 1
Final Gathering 2
Final Gathering 3
Skylight 2
Sunlight
Modeling with Lattice
Global Illumination 1
Global Illumination 2
Outdoor Lighting
Glossy Reflections
Alpha Channels
Chamfering edges
Modeling with Shell
SubSurface Scattering
Modeling Columns and Arches
Unwrap UVW exposed
MAX -> Zbrush -> MAX


Author: Charbel Koueik

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