Archive : Exercises

I really hate to talk about options and parameters. Understanding through the parameters seems to me a great bullshit. It’s necessary to deeply understand things, then just apply to the software. That’s because 90% of this article is devoted to a simple explanation of what the depth of field...

You need to render a rock surface and you just have a diffuse map. ( Look here for Free Textures! ) How to convert it in a good displacement map? Open the texture in photoshop and work it in order to get your displacement map. But often we just get really dotted surfaces, like “BAD Displacement”...

Duplicating textures is sometimes complicated. Non-uniform textures show their duplication with evidence. This often happens when we use picture taken from our camera or downloading non-tilable Texture (mostly free). The problem is not the whole texture, but specifically its luminosity. There’s...

If you want to simulate Caustics with V-Ray con can’t miss my related post! If  you want to simulate the sea with V-Ray as you see in the picture above? Download the free scene – LINK! (V-Ray + 3ds 2009) - – - – - Became a fan of CG BLOG on Facebook! – - – - - I’m...