H3D Tutorials

This is set of triks how to organase workflow with complex scenes using MtoA.Multitexture material - one shader, different textures.You can reduce amount of shaders in scene and speed up look development with one material and individual textures on each object. With this setup, shapes share same ...

Hi  Amigos,This tutorial gives you knowledge on the concept of UV pass shader. UV pass shader is used to render UV pass which will be used in compositing to modify texture of the selected object.To start, We will try to understand the concept of UV's in Mayaabove picture is UV layout in maya...

Attribute Collection lets you interactivly build and edit a custom user interface that can be saved with the scene.You can link attributes, group them in various layouts, add buttons and icons.Attribute Collection is part of the Bonus Tools for Maya and can be downloaded here.

Shuffle a limited set of Maya texture map tiles to create the illusion of randomness and variety.

tutorial now at http://www.arnokroner.com/design/curriculum-development/tutorials/foggy-egg/

Hello there, my name is Raouf, I am a Technical Artist currently living in Clermont-Ferrand, France. In this "quick tutorial", I will try to explain how I created "Natascha" and break it down into multiple creation steps. I will be focusing mainly on the shading and texturing part in which I used...

*UPDATE * The MEL script has been updated to a new renderSpeedy version 2.0 with lots of new features http://www.artbycrunk.com/script/maya/scripts-wireframe-render-speedy/the old version can still be found here..http://www.artbycrunk.com/script/maya/scripts-crtoonwireframeren/ FOLLOW FOR UPDATES...

Hello! My name is Alex Tacu and I want to explain what are the correct gamma setting that you need to use when you render with V-Ray for Maya. Firs of all let’s have a look what result you get when you don’t set anything.For this I made a simple scene with 3 cubes.The left one has a simple VRay M...

Hey!   Today I’m going to explain how to make a simple planet, that is not rendering intensive and actually looks pretty good.   First open Maya, and create a new scene.   Create a Sphere, Set it’s radius to 10, and center it on every axis.   Assign a Lamburt Shader to the Sph...

In this tutorial i showed how to create mountain using displacement, i explained about ocean shader snow texture.

In this tutorial i am going to show how to create Water environment using single shader with multple Textures, this is my first tutorial in Area.

Download the 'fakeibl' script from here.Open the scene the run the script. A dome (nurb sphere) will be created.The first step is to select an image as the environment map. The color of the lights on the dome will be changed regarding to the selected image.If your scene is far from the origin, se...

In this tutorial we will be exploring the use of the Mental Ray node "parti_volume". in the past this has been somewhat troublesome for new and experienced users alike. however with this tutorial i aim to explain how to set it up in a way that will enable you to go ahead and put it to your own us...

Wildcards Selecting nodes using wildcards in the Input Box This tutorial originated on the 3D Animation weblog Set Driven Key. You may already be familiar with the Input Box in Maya. It's a text field on the status line (on the top right of the screen) where you can type in the name of an object ...

Requirements and Downloads You  need the latlong_lens mental ray lens shader (latlong_lens.zip) . Example scene on how to use the shader, including the rendered HDR image (example_scene.zip). In order to view and edit HDR images HDRShop comes in handy .Introduction This tutorial shows how to...

Hi everyone!My name is Dennis and just got my hands on the Vray For Maya demo! A friend asked if I could explain the basics, so here is a very simple tutorial. First of all if you havent, get Vray For Maya from ChaosGroup --> http://www.chaosgroup.com (you have to create an account)- Then just...

Batch Rendering 102:If you are new to batch rendering I suggest you have a look at my step-by-step tutorial here: Rendering several maya scenes and camerasThe following tutorial is to answer the most common questions I am e-mailed regarding batch renderingHow do I make the batch renderer use Ment...

Rendering Realistic DinosaursHaving many tons worth of digital prehistoric animals under our belt.  A number of  people have asked about my rendering set-up at dotnamestudios.  This tutorial is not about displacement maps or how to model but taken from the point after you have your...

With the release of Maya 2009 the options available for render passes increased tremendously. This is usually a good thing. But in doing so, some of the easy methods for creating custom render passes, such as an Ambient Occlusion pass, no longer work as they did in Maya 2008. Apart from creating ...

Compositing 101: The Black edge-----The black edge...that faint line of premultiplied colour can be a devil if nobody has ever shown you how to get rid of it.Here is your frame turtle_0034Here is your background sea footage:The problem is this horrible faint black edge that you can't seem to get ...

Next-Gen MaterialsCobblestoneWritten by Alex Schwartz - gtproductions.netWPI Game Development ClubForeword:Much nicer looking PDF located here: http://gtproductions.net/files/cobblestone_tutorial.pdfIntroduction:This tutorial will guide you through the creation of a 3d mesh in Maya that will be u...

Batch Tool Tutorial I. What is the Batch Tool? The Batch Tool is a tool kit to do Maya rendering and batch processing for large amount of files. It serves as a bridge between Maya, operating system and local area network. The Batch Tool allows you to: *)Do Maya network rendering.*)Do batch proces...

Maya Optics DI He Introduction The term of optics can be largely related to many scientific fields, related the physical concept in Maya software are not very different, therefore lighting and shading processing in Maya is often hard and confusing. Especially for the users who assume that the fun...