Modeling Plant with 3ds Max Part 1

3ds Max Tutorial

  Hai everyone, in this tutorial we will learn how to create palm plant , first we will model the plant pot and make the leaves, then add the textures to the model.

  I allready have the texture, this was the perfect one to start with, at the end of this tutorial you will be able to create any kind of opacity based plants, to start this tutorial you should have intermediate knowledge of 3ds Max, and also you will be needing these textures or you are more than welcome to use your owns. You can download the texture by click here. Let's start guys.

1. Open 3ds max and start with a Cylinder the settings are shown on the image below ( fig.1 ), you would be needing extra edges to shape this vase.

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2. Convert the Cylinder to an Editable Poly, and then shape it as showing on the image (fig.2).

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3. Select the top face and then use your Inset operation to give it a thickness.

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4. Use the Bevel operation to shape it something like on the image showing.

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5. To create the mud surface of the pot, still with the top face selected hold Shift on the keyboard and move up in the Z Axis and then choose Clone to Object operation and hit OK, this willgive you an independent polygon which we can use it as out pot mud surface, Scale it to fit the gap.

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6. At the moment we are done with the plant pot, its time to create the leaves. See you Part 2

3ds Max Tutorial   Hai everyone, in this tutori...

Creating V-Ray Glossy Material

         In this simple and quick tutorial I’m gonna show you how to creating a glossy v-ray material, I use 3ds max 9 and V-Ray 1.5. Let’s go the step 1.

1. Create a new V-Ray Material.

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2. Change the ‘Diffuse’ color to what ever you want, in this tutorial I turn it to red. Activate the ‘Background’ button.

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3. Change the ‘Reflect’ color to white, click box button beside the reflect color box, then choose ‘Falloff’. See the figure below (Fig.3).

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4. Leave the falloff parameter by default, then back again to main material.

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5. Change these parameter, change the ‘Hilight glossiness’ value and turn up the ‘Subdivs’ value to get a smooth material.

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6.  Now we have this material, it's fully gloss.

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7.  That's it..thanks all.

         In this simple and quick tutorial I’m gonna show you how to creating a glossy v-ray material, I use 3ds max 9 and V-Ray 1.5. ...

Rendering a realistic object using V-Ray

            This tutorial will explain you to render a realistic object with simple way and less render time. I use 3ds max 9 and V-Ray 1.5. Let’s go the step 1.

1.On top viewport, go to Create tab, click geometry and create a plane. Set its parameter Length:140, Width:140 and all segment is 4. 

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2.Now place the object you want to render. You can use a teapot or another object here, but I already have this beautiful vase flower to render, if you agree with me, you can get the vase flower <here>, it's already materialized. We need a glossy material for the object to catch a reflection, so if you use a teapot for the object to render, give the teapot a glossy material. You can go <here> to know how to make a V-Ray glossy material.

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3.Now go to front viewport, create a V-Ray light. Change the ‘Multiplier’ value to 8 and change the ‘Color’ into a light cyan. Name it ‘LIGHT1’ See the figure below (Fig.03).

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4.Back to Top viewport, move the ‘LIGHT1’ to it’s position, then rotate it around of 45 degree.See the figure below (Fig.04). 

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5.Create another light that opposite to LIGHT1, name it LIGHT2 and change the parameters. Set the ‘Multiplier’ value to 3, change the light ‘Color’ to ‘White’.

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6.Still on top viewport, create a ‘TargetCamera’, make the the target camera is almost rectangular with these two ‘LIGHTS’. See the figure below (Fig.06). 

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7.Now go to ‘Perspective’ viewport, right clicking on it and apply the ‘Camera01’ view.

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8.Go to ‘Front’ viewport, modify the ‘TargetCamera’ view by moving up the camera and the camera target too. Change the ‘Lens’ of the camera value to 50. Keep modifying the camera target until you have the best perspective view.

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9. Hit render to test the render result. Here’s in Fig.9 below is my result. As you can see that the background is dark and the land is not reflecting the object. 

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10. Now we’re gonna change the background in to gray. In 3ds Max main menu, choose “Rendering’ tab and click ‘Environment’. Change the background color into Gray. 

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11. Next step is creating a glossy land with a gradient overlay. It’s can do by applying the glossy v-ray material to the plane object as a glossy land. You can get the material <here>. Next tutorial I’m gonna show you how to make this material. After change the background color and applying the land material here’s my result below.

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12. Now we’re gonna change the V-Ray default render setting for more realistic result. Go to‘Render Scene’ (F10), click ‘Renderer’ tab menu and change some render parameter. I just turn on the GI, turn on the ‘Environment’ and change the value of ‘rQMC Sampler’. 

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13. After doing a render setting, render again the scene and you should see the result below. Sure you can do another render setting experiment to get the best result.

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14. Have a question or still confused? You can leave a comment below or learn from the complete scene, you can get it <here>. Thanks for read, and keep visiting my blog. Gracias!

            This tutorial will explain you to render a realistic object with simple way and less render time. I use 3ds max 9 and V-Ra...

Poly Modifier 'Hinge From Edge'

     'Hinge From Edge' is one of editable poly modifier, It's essentially an extrusion with rotation, with one exception: If the hinge edge belongs to a selected polygon, that side is not extruded. The manual 'Hinge From Edge' version of  works only with an existing polygon selection. In this tutorial, i'll show how it works, let's go to step 1.

1. Create a 'Box', set its parameters. Length:160, Width:28, Height:28, Length Segs:8 and the rest is by 3ds max default.

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2. Convert the box to an 'Editable Poly' by right clicking it and select 'Convert to Editable Poly'.

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3. Select the poly and go to 'Modify' tab, turn on the 'Polygon' selector. Select one polygon at the corner.

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4. Scroll down and expand the 'Edit Polygon' menu. Select the 'Hinge From Edge' modifier and click the setting button, its gonna pop up the 'Hinge Polygon From Edge' panel.

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5. On the  'Hinge Polygon From Edge' panel, click the 'Pick Hinge' button and move your mouse pointer to choose the desired edge to use it as a hinge.

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6. Click 'Apply' button six times.

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7. Below is explanation about this modifier.
Angle : Quantifies the rotation about the hinge. You can hinge selected polygons outward or inward,          depending on whether the value is positive or negative. 

Segments : Specifies the number of polygons into which each extruded side is subdivided. This setting also  applies to manually hinged polygons. 

Current Hinge : Click Pick Hinge, and then click an edge to be the hinge. After you designate a hinge, the “Pick Hinge” button text is replaced with “Edge #” where # is the ID number of the hinge edge. 

All subsequent hinge operations created via the dialog will use this hinge. To hinge multiple polygons, each from one of its own sides, you must reselect the hinge each time. 

Apply    : Applies the settings to the current selection, retaining them if you then make another selection. 

OK        : Applies the settings to the current selection and closes the dialog. 

Cancel  : Closes the dialog without applying the settings to the current selection. Does not reverse previous uses of Apply. 

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8. That's it, thanks for reading, keep visiting my blog.

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Creating A Plastic Chair with 3Ds Max Pt.2

Hi.. this is the the < Part 2 > of this tutorial, if you missed the < Part 1 >, just click < here >.

9.Go to 'Perspective' view, change the 'Vertex' selector in to an 'Edges' selector, then select these edges (See Fig. 09). You can do it by select one edges, then hit 'Loop', so you don't have to select the edges one by one.

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10.Scroll down and pop up the 'Edit Edges' tab, then select 'Chamfer'. Chamfer these selected  'Edges' with an amount 0.5 one times.

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11.Go to 'Right' view, on a 'Modifier List' drop down menu select 'FFD 4x4x4' modifier.

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12. Modify the 'FFD 4x4x4' control points by move it up and down, right and left, until we have this shape. See Fig.12.

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13.Convert to an editable poly and apply the 'Turbosmooth' modifier with 'Iteration' 1.

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14. That's the end of the part 2, see you at the part 3. In the part 3 we're gonna create the leg.

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Creating Depth of Field using V-Ray ZDepth + Photoshop Pt2

 

Hi..this is the 'Part 2' of this tutorial, if you've missed the 'Part 1',  just click  ==>>here.

Welcome to part 2.. lets continue to step 7.

7. Open the 2nd JPG (the Zdepth JPG) in Photoshop.

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8. Go to select menu, and click all. You can press 'Ctrl+A' to use a keyboard shortcut.

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9. After selecting the full image (Ctrl+A), go to ‘Edit’ menu, and click ‘Copy’. You can press ‘Ctrl+C’ to use a keyboard shortcut.

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10. Open the first JPG , then go to 'Channel' tab. On the ‘Channel’ tab, click the ‘Create new channel’  button.

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11. As you can see in Fig.05, the new channel is  automatically named as ‘Alpha 1’.

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 12. Now ‘Paste’ or press 'Ctrl V' the 'Zdepth' image that has been copied above in Step 9 to 'Alpha 1' channel.

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13. Turn off the Alpha 1 channel and select the RGB, Red, Green and Blue Channel, then go to ‘Filter’ tab. 'Filter' tab is on ‘Photoshop’ main menu bar.

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 14. On the ‘Filter’ menu, choose ‘Blur’ and select the sub menu ‘Lens Blur’.

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 15. Changes the ‘Lens Blur’ parameters. Do some experiment in modifying the parameters to get the best result you want. Click ‘OK’ and it’s done.

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 16. Well done, see you again next tutorial.

  Hi..this is the 'Part 2' of this tutorial, if you've missed the 'Part 1' ,  just click  ==>>here. Wel...