[Videos and Text] A brief tutorial covering the essentials of baking ambient occlusion with the Mental Ray render system in 3ds max. Rendering Ambient Occlusion: First off, let’s take a look at actually rendering an ambient occlusion map with mental ray materials (if you’re still using a skylight with the scanline renderer, your grandparents called and they just told me to tell you to get with the times). To access …Read the Rest
Textures/Materials
Setting up Blueprints/Reference Planes.
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[Video and Text] There are quite possibly thousands of tutorials that cover this topic for 3ds max, but I’ve yet …Read the Rest
Adding Decals
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[Video] In this tutorial I show you how easy it is to just add decals or “stickers” onto other objects, …Read the Rest
Blending Textures
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[Video] I can’t take credit for this one, as it was originally a small written tutorial on Maxforums by one …Read the Rest
Baking Normal Maps.
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[Video] A quick look at how to set up your meshes and Render to Texture settings for baking a normal …Read the Rest




