Added a new blog tip on creating 'fake' projected volume caustics with 3ds Max & mental ray

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New blog post on using custom colored and/or kelvin controlled sunlight in your 3ds Max/ mental ray scenes.



Link:
http://mrmaterials.com/jeffs-blog/1...d-sunlight.html

HDR Light Studio v1.5 is now released and I posted a little more info about it on my latest blog entry at mrmaterials.com.

I wanted to pass along a few blogs that 3ds Max users will find useful. Some of these are relatively new so there's may not be a ton of info at the moment. However, I know the owners of the blogs produce quality stuff so you may want to bookmark these:

Hristo Velev (emphasis = VFX): http://velevfx.com/

Peter Guthrie (emphasis = Vray): http://www.peterguthrie.net/blog/

Ramy Hanna (quite a few mental ray tips, but the blog isn't mental ray only stuff): http://3dsmaxrendering.blogspot.com/

Frances Gainer Davey (new blog, various topics): http://surrealstructures.com/blog/

Jennifer O'Connor (emphasis = mental ray): http://www.4da-inc.com/blog/

I've updated my .mat collection to include two of my car paint materials, a modified carbon-fiber material, and a glossy metal that I used on the wheels of the Camaro renders in my gallery.

Example renders using some of these materials:

Composite car paint - TangerineDream (click to enlarge)


Primer car paint - Black Primer (click to enlarge)


Updated Carbon-Fiber material:
http://jeffpatton.net/Temp/Carbon_fiber.mov (Right-Click, save file to view it)

DOH, I suppose it would be helpful to post another link to the .mat file wouldn't it!
http://jeffpatton.net/Blog-images/J...r-materials.zip

Also, if you ever have the need to animate a car, plane, helicopter, etc.. I highly recommend you take a look at the Craft Animations tools. Jason Addy and myself were allowed to review the Craft Director Tools product line for Vizdepot.com. I can honestly say their tools make animating cameras and vehicles a pleasure, and they have some excellent customer support.
Link: http://www.craftanimations.com/

NOTE: Had to edit a link here and doing so brought this older post back to the top. This blog post was originally created in Sept. 2007