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> Where to find free textures? > What’s my favourite collection? Texture of Stones… walls… marbles… woods… fabrics, but especially free textures? Every time I have to search same texture it’s a very treasure hunt. Sometimes I don’t remember where I’ve found my favourite texture.. sometimes I don’t remember WHERE I can find excellet textures. […]

Matte painting? What’s Matte painting? Matte Painting it’ s a very useful and powerful technic to create imaginary landscapes. As you can read on Wikipedia: Mattes Painting: it’s used in photography and special effects filmmaking to combine two or more image elements into a single, final image. Usually, mattes are used to combine a foreground […]

This post has been updated > Ocean waves V2 * 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 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 […]

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 […]