Useful Short-cuts Of 3ds Max

If you are working with 3ds max it's pretty hard to work without shortcuts or hot keys.

Why short-cut keys?

      Because short-cut keys saves your time more than 25%.

Without further a do let's get started.

Basics

• Select :- Q
• Move :- W
• Rotate :-E
• Scale:-R

Editable poly

• Vertices:- 1
• Edge:- 2
• Ring :- 3
• Faces:-4
• Elements :-5  
• Select neither :- 6
• Hold Shift then drag :- Clone mesh
• Shift+Click :-Select loop

Dialog boxes

• F1 :- Help
• F9 :- Render current frame
• F10 :- Render settings
• 0 :- Render to texture
• 8 :- Environment and effects
• F12:- Transform

Tools

• S :- Snap toggle
• A :- Angle snap toggle
• Ctrl(command on mac)+V :-Clone
• Alt+B :-Background
• Ctrl(command on mac)+C :- Create a camera of activated view-port
• Alt+Q :- Turn on/off isolate mood 

                                                      I often use those hot keys and it helps me to make my 3d models better.

                                                                                                            Akila Uyanwatta

                                                                                                          

3ds max mental ray car rendering

Studio Rendering Tutorial

Buy 3d model here http://3dexport.com/3dmodel-bmw-m3-57772.htm\

This tutorial is going to be a video.

Just select the best quality I compressed it to 8mb.
I'm going to show you a quick way to render a car or any product in 3ds max.
In my computer it takes about 2 mins to medium quality render if you have a powerful workstation it won't take more than 30 secs.

Tips To Make Your Render Better

Tips to make your render good

                                           




                           Most people told me that their render "sucks".So it's a big problem for many beginners.Today I'm going to show you how to avoid that and add some dignity to your render.

To get started, I'm going to use a simple example file. CLICK THIS LINK  to download the file.

Let's get started.

Basic Modeling Tools In 3ds Max

Basic Modeling Tools In 3ds Max

                                              Trough this tutorial we are going to talk about "basic modeling tools in 3ds max.

First of all create a box with these values

    Length  :-200 cm 

    Height   :-200 cm 

    Width   :-200 cm 

    Length, height,width segs:-1

                                              Then convert it to an editable poly so that we can edit(model) it.

                                               

I-phone rendering in 3ds max

                                                            In this tutorial,I'm going to teach you that how to render an "I-Phone" via 3ds max and mental-ray.First of all download the 3d model by this link...
                                 http://3dexport.com/3dmodel-iphone-4-52392.htm
                                                             Then import it to 3ds max and to make "mental-ray" as the render follow these steps.Rendering>Render setup>Common tab>Assign Render(sub-menu)>Hit the first "..." button and select "mental-ray" from the list.

                                                                     Open up the material editor by pressing "M" key.Then press standard button and select arch and design material preset from the "mental-ray" sub list.

                                 After doing that change settings to these numbers.Make sure that you've changed main color to Wight.Then apply it to the phone.Make another arch and design material with black color and Reflectivity is "1.0".When you are finished add it to necessary places.So your model should look like this.

Make your product realistic with 3ds max

                                                      First of all open 3ds max.Press F10 to open render setup, in common tab scroll down to assign renderer and select "Mental-ray".

                                                          Import your object or product which wants to be rendered.Press M to open material editor.Press standard button and pick arch and design" preset.Then select your material type from select template button.Click and drag the matereial slot to the object to add the material to that object.(If the requested template is not in the list you can use a material from autodesk material library.A&D and library materials are physically accurate)
                             
                          Note:-If you have more that one object in the scene from deference materials  you have to put deference materials form deference slots.

                                                         close the material editor and create a object like this