Ivy Generator is a free useful plug in to generate complex foliage.
Generating trees and foliage is usually something difficult but it’s very important to give a realist aspect to exterior renderings.
Have a look on this nice tutorial to learn how to make a luffa farm with Ivy Generator. It’s a videtutorial during 28mins… nice to […]

Simcloth3 V1.52 is out!
The famous free plugin made by Chaosgroup is available to download in 64bit version.
I like very much this plugin because it’s free… in spite of everything the results are very good. 3d studio has a module inside and Reactor plugin to simule clothes, but sometimes it’s good having a strong alternative.

Download the […]

Ozone 3.0 is out!
It’s a plugin for Lightwave 3D, Cinema4D, 3ds Max, Maya and XSI for the realistic simulations of skies and atmospheric effects.
Ozone is a standalone plugin, therefore is not necessary to have the software Vue, even if it could work with it perfeclty.

For more informations have a look at Ozone Website
Buy and download […]

If you think that working with 3d models is only for expert users, able to use very sophisticated software like 3d studio max, maya or something like that… you are wrong!
It’s finishing the time for super smart guys using complex parameters to render wonderful images… because more and more often new softwares are appearing: softwares […]

Next Limit Technologies announces that a new update of RealFlow4 (version 4.3) has been released. This is an important update and more than just a bug fix; there are several new and improved features:

The stacking procedure in the rigid body solver is now up to 4 times faster, is more […]

I hope you liked my article about PSD2Mat so today I’m going to write something about another very useful plugin: PSD Manager.
PSD manager is a plugin produced by Cebas for 3d Studio Max/Viz that allow to export a layered rendering directly in a Psd file format: one channel in one layer… ready to be opened […]

Yes, these purple figures are poors Biped, used as a guines pig, testing Reactor parameters: watch the fun video!
To be precise it’s not a Biped you can find in Character animation 3ds module, but it’s a Ragdoll of Cat animation toolkit.
I found this video some month ago and I would to propose it: very, very amazing. […]

FumeFX, a great plugin produced by Sitni Sati, is a powerful Fluid Dynamics Engine designed for the3d simulation and rendering of realistic fire, smoke, explosion, and other gaseous phenomena. It’s versatility, robustness, and intuitive workflow make it a perfect solution for even the most demanding tasks in the computer graphics industry.
The core in named […]

OceanWaves is a very, very interesting plugin to simulate…. Ocean Waves, obvious!
It’s created by Charles Hollemeersch and it’s incredible how it get a ocean model so similar from the real ocean waves!
This 3D Studio Max plugin adds a new geometry object which generates a statistically generated ocean wave suface. It allows you to set parameters […]

< A great explanation of V-ray settings, parameter by parameter, to understand it in deep. >
There’s no just english sites to find a great educational material, but you can find in many parts of the world people producing excellent tutorials.
This time we’re going to Spain!
Few years ago, Pedro Saiz Bilbao realized a very […]

A reader ask to me why the RPC (Rich Photorealistic Content) doesn’t project shadows using V-ray.
Yes, it’s right. There’s some problem using both RPC and V-ray. When I had the same problem I must retouched the render with Adobe Photoshop. That was the only solution I found.
But not any RPC Archvision library has the same […]

Here the second scene made with Vray sun, this time we have a different atmosphere: the sunset!
It’s very easy to use it, you just need to download it, starting 3d studio max and go testing changing all the parameters with fantasy!
The V-ray parameters aren’t not so different from the last scene, the most important change […]

In the last file I showed you how to set VrayDisplacement to obtain realistic grass or carpets. It’s a good solution for middle camera shots.
But how can do if your grass is really near to the camera? You need more details to obtain a realistic render, so it’s time to use Vray Fur!
if you need […]

Photoshop tutorial. If you want to render any kind of frosted glass, you have to think about to notable increase of rendering time.
My personal solution is to render “normal” glasses with our render engines, and after abtain any kind of glass playing […]

There’s no doubts: Modeling Nurbs is the best solution if you are going to model objects, especially all objects made by industrial production.
I don’t know how many times did you try to model a cell phone, usb pen, ipod or something like that. There are many sinouos surfaces and smoothed edge! I watched around […]

Scanline VFX is a visual effects society, based in Berlin, specialized in Cg fluid simulations: their effects are really awesome!
I think lot of you wached the movie Poseidon: there are very realistic scenes in cg fluid animation and this work is made by Scanline VFX!
Here a really amazing video very famous for all of […]

Recently Tom Hudson updated his very famous script Greeble 9.
With the arrival of new 3d studio 9 Tom Hudson prepared the updated version working with last release of 3d studio max.
If you don’t know yet Greeble, it’s very useful to increase easly scene’s details and it’s perfect modeling city landscapes, spaceship, death stars etc… You […]

Don’t miss V-Ray demo reel presented at last Siggraph. There are important 3d artist like Christopher Nichols (the author of important Gnomon dvds training)… but that’s not all, there are same commercials, movies, 3d animations.
Very hight quality cg video, enjoy it.

Click here to see Vray - demo Reel

Tags: vray, plugin, cg, 3d studio max, rhino, rendering
One of must important things to create a good scene and a good render is light settings.
If you are starting with Vray or if you want to know other methods to set V-ray you have to visit vray templates […]

This kind of image is very, very popular, created with vray or maxwell render, final render or mental ray… that’s no important thing. The detail is very high but it’s no hand made of course!
Years ago Tom hudson wrote a very useful plugin for 3d studio max named Greeble.
It’s very easy to use: you […]