Reactor is a powerful tool that comes with 3d Studio Max, it makes it possible to simulate realistic dynamics based on physically-defined properties, such as hard body, soft body, cloth, and liquid. It can simulate the reaction occurring when a box falling from a high place hits the ground. This could be compared to all the time required to do the same effect using keyframes, and that wouldn't still give us a realistic animation similar to the one possible to create using reactor. This tutorial will teach you how to simulate car motion using the Wheel Reactor.

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Grant Warwick has produced a awesome pro workflow tutorial of making a 3ds Robot. This tutorial covers everything from inspiration, sketching, modeling to rendering in vray.

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Here we will do a nice little still life scene that can be used in any situation.

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Learn how to import and export between the two powerful softwares i.e 3ds max and ZBrush.

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This is a tutorial about many things but mostly about caustics in mental ray.

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Have a look funny and realistic mummy which tripping over its bandages.

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Photo montage means a picture where 3D model is rendered inside of a photograph. The goal is to make the 3D model inside of the photo look as natural as possible. In high quality photo montages 3D models are conceived as part of the photograph.

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In 3D graphics the structure of the model often matters a lot. Well built model renders and animates nicely. When a clay render is created out of a 3D model, one often wants to show also the structure of the model. In this tutorial I cover clay rendering where also the structure (wire / edges) of the model is shown as addition to the surface.

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In this tutorial we cover the creation of a simple tornado in 3D Studio MAX. The tornado is created by forcing particles to follow a path and adding motion blur to them. You need some experience with 3DS MAX to be able to follow this tutorial.

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This short tutorial on how to use VRay's Global Illumination feature will show you one method for creating realistic looking lighting for a scene. VRay is a very powerful external render engine for Max made by Chaos Group. VRay has many features including the ability to to physically accurate full global illumination, advanced material shaders and enhancements for speeding up rendering time. You can check the Chaos Group website to learn more about the various VRay features.
This is an intermediate level tutorial and it will not explore any modelling techniques, you will have to create a simple scene with a few objects laying around to follow this tutorial.

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