Another “Making Of ” Tutorial, this time for Rosso scene.

It has been published on 3DTotal site and you can follow the tutorial through this link :

http://www.3dtotal.com/index_tutorial_detailed.php?catDisplay=1&id=1442#.TuXtJNXIt8E

Hope you like it and find it useful.

After I published my Rosso scene, I had many requests and many people were asking me to prepare a tutorial about how to create a curtain shader. Here is the mini-tutorial I promised for Ronen Bekerman Forum which has been one of the leading and creative arch-vis sites that I feel happy to take part.

 

http://www.ronenbekerman.com/material-curtain-v-ray/

 

Since a few days I am feeling excited that I will be able to use dual monitors. My second monitor  doesn’t have great quality in contrast and color depth- in fact it is a cheap monitor but it is great to be able to move all the secondary windows to this while working. In fact it feels a bit dizzy and confusing at the beginning because hardest part is that there is no taskbar on the second monitor due to the windows 7 limitation. So I made some search and discovered very nice tools and thought it would be useful to share all these with you who are new to using dual monitors like me.

 

Windows Shorcuts :

If you are like me and like to use many shortcuts and hotkeys from keyboard instead of mouse, then you will love these windows system shortcuts which are very handy.

Win+Up	Maximize
Win+Down	Restore / Minimize
Win+Left	Snap to left
Win+Right	Snap to right
Win+Shift+Left	Jump to left monitor
Win+Shift+Right	Jump to right monitor
Win+Home	Minimize / Restore all other windows

 

 

MultiMon Taskbar :

This is a great freeware program that adds a taskbar in the second (even 3rd, 4th etc) monitor. You can download it from :
http://www.mediachance.com/free/multimon.htm

It is very handy to have the taskbar on your secondary monitor so that you don’t have to go back to your primary monitor any time you want to make something with the taskbar and saves great time.

 

 

Winsplit :

Again another freeware program to let you organise your windows with keyboard shortcuts. I installed it and I like how it works very much. You can download it from:

http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/home

Here there are two little videos about how to use the tool :

http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/screenshots/videos-demos

And they work with the dialog boxes, material editor and unwrap windows as well !

 

 

Dual Monitor Management Software Comparison

There are other commercial solutions which are combined with very detailed features such as Ultramon & Actual Multiple Monitors but at the moment I decided to use the freware ones.

Here you can find a detailed comparison analysis of tools for dual monitor management:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_multi-monitor_software

 

 

Today  is a special and  lucky day  for me because it is very nice to  have  2 of my  tutorials published in one day.  This is a tutorial that I have prepared for Evermotion : The Making Of Story Of Bronte Scene.  Hope you find my tutorials useful.

http://www.evermotion.org/tutorials/show/7976/bronte-making-of

 

Vray Lens Effects is a new tool in Vray 2.0. Last week I had time to test this new feature on my Rosso Scene night view and to share my experiments with you, I prepared one tutorial to be published on  my friend Matt Guetta’s blog.
The tutorial is English – only the introduction is in French. Here is the link for the tutorial:

http://www.mattguetta.com/vraylenseffect-par-alfa-smyrna/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mattguetta+%28matt+guetta%29

 

I have prepared a new tutorial on Max Hair& For modifier for  Ronen Bekerman Architectural Visualisation Forums,one of the most innovative sites of the community. This is an article tutorial telling about how to create a fury object with 3dsMax Hair and Fur Modifier, the one that is ony my scene “My Bedroom Concept.”

You can check the tutorial on Ronen’s site where it is hosted and hope find it useful :

http://www.ronenbekerman.com/hair-fur-in-3d-studio-max/

 

 

This is a Making Of Tutorial that I have created for Evermotion, one of the leading forums of the industry.Inside the tutorial, you can find the various stages of the project Modelling, Texturing and Lighting as well as tips about how to create specific effects.

The tutorial is hosted on Evermotion site and you can follow it by clicking the link:

http://www.evermotion.org/tutorials/show/7952/modeling-and-rendering-tutorial-by-alfa-smyrna

 

This is the 2nd part of the Ground Elements tutorial. You can find the 1st part here. In this part, I will try to explain how I create grass with Particle Flow.
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Actually, this is not a new tutorial; I created this as a  part of the Making of Story for my scene Time Under Trees.  But I have been requested few times to publish this part in a seperate tutorial so it can get listed in the search engines and include a grass version of the same method. This first part is about how to create grass using Particle Flow Method. (Please click on images to view in higher resolution.)

 

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Making Of Time Under Trees published on Evermotion.

http://www.evermotion.org/tutorials/show/7938/making-of-time-under-the-tree