http://3dessentials.com Best Illustrations, Tutorials and Resources for the 3d community. Mon, 21 May 2012 22:26:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-beta4 http://3dessentials.com/tutorials/create-very-realistic-looking-rocks-in-3ds-max-and-vray/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=create-very-realistic-looking-rocks-in-3ds-max-and-vray http://3dessentials.com/tutorials/create-very-realistic-looking-rocks-in-3ds-max-and-vray/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:17:36 +0000 mainAdminAnt http://3dessentials.com/tutorials/create-very-realistic-looking-rocks-in-3ds-max-and-vray/ ]]> Part 1 of this tutorial shows a way to create very realistic looking rocks that can be rendered far away or for very detailed work. After failing to find a decent tutorial online I decided to start experimenting and I came up with this. I already knew how to make decent looking rock but I needed a way of generating loads quickly for a very rocky landscape. In Part 2 we are going to distribute those Rocks on a large scale using Vray Mesh Export and the Advanced Painter Plugin.

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