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This Free 3D Studio Max tutorial explains in a very detailed fashion how to use procedurals to create a rock texture. This free 3d tutorial covers displacement tuning in mental ray, specularity properties, bump and displacement with stacked procedural to create cracks, rust, and uneven structures over the surface of the 3d rock. Apart form this, the free 3d tutorial also covers other procedural usage such as noise, smoke and cellular. To view this free 3d tutorial, go to Cgcookie.com

If you are new to mental Ray for 3ds max rendering, check out the freshly released basic video for new Mental Ray training tutorialseries through . It is really smart common sense to use these FREE tutorial 3d videos to keep 3ds max Max users informed about the training available, so check out the Introduction to the NEW Mental Ray Shader Series from MentalablutMax.blogspot.com

Are you a regular 3ds Max user? Do you have trouble achieving those amazing looking caustics in your 3d scene? Here is your answer; this is a free 3d tutorial about a lot of stuff but mainly about caustics in mental ray in 3ds max.
There are a lot of good caustics tutorials for 3ds max, but this one goes the distance. This free 3ds Max tutorial goes step by step in detailing the steps to be taken in order to achieve the result that you see in the image, For more on this 3ds max free tutorial, go to Tutorialized.com

Of the many books available on using mental ray and 3ds max and this one is the best to begin with. The author helps you to understand the process of using mental ray with 3ds Max, elucidating and illustrating in the book what you’ll witness on your own computer. The set up of a 3d rendering using mental ray is not tricky, but its settings can appear intimidating to both the beginner and the more experienced user. Joep goes all the way through all of mental ray’s most important settings in order to set up a 3d rendering. Additionally, he explains how to use Final Gather alone or in tandem with Global Illumination to attain best results. This is something that not many 3D authors do in the same profound way, if at all. He also explains what each significant mental ray setting means and how tiny changes to them influence your 3ds Max scenes. Available from Amazon.com

Since we are able to make amazing 3D in AutoCAD, we may require visualizing it. 3ds Max is in all probability the most excellent solution with the most resourceful interoperability with AutoCAD, but did you ever comprehend the latent for 3d rendering inside AutoCAD?

In this free AutoCAD rendering tutorial goes to explain the settings for materials, lights, animations and for the whole Mental Ray engine. This free AutoCAD tutorial also covers interoperability with 3ds Max. Go to Whatamesh.typepad.com for this free AutoCAD rendering tutorial.

Mr Furniture the leading 3d model collections website has come out with its Mental Ray Cabinet Design Collection. Each one of the 3d furniture models possess ready to use Mental Ray Materials so you cut down the time that you have to apply the materials in the 3d model. There is an extensive choice of 3d Bedroom Cabinets, 3d Dinning Cabinets and 3d Kitchen Cabinets.

The Mental Ray Cabinet Collection contains 50 various 3d models in .max and .3ds file formats for easy use in any 3d program. Materials are applied and ready to use. All the textures are included. The great thing is 3D Cabinet Furniture models are jointed. Go to Mr-cad.com for more.

3DS MAX Foundations: Lighting & Materials is a video tutorial kit that covers lighting and surfacing techniques under the 3DS MAX platform. The topics covered vary from Scanline rendering to Final Gathering and Global Illumination using Mental Ray. Various examples explore several surfacing techniques to generate intricate material networks.

For more information on the 3Ds Max Lighting Training, go here

A great 3d training course where You will use 3ds Max Design 2009, Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Mental Ray, to model, texture, light and render a photo-realistic scene. You will build interior and exterior models, learn how to replicate wood, concrete and glass and use Mental Ray to create professional level images.

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A great new practical 3d book with a logical workflow. Perfect for a 3d person to see how Mental Ray works in 3ds Max. All aspects of Mental Ray are discussed with simple 3d tutorials that follow.  Also on what things to consider before applying shaders, all within the parameters of 3ds Max.

To know more on Rendering with 3ds Max and Mental Ray from Amazon go here

A wonderful little free 3d tutorial on ambience in Mental Ray. This free 3d tutorial goes on to show how to use Ambience in Mental Ray for 3ds Max. Usually people are not familiar about the lack of an ambient slot in the mia material shader.

This free 3d tutorial for Mental ray comes to you courtesy of Mental Ray tips which can be accessed here