1. Open your 3ds max software , Go to Customize – Unit setup… as u can see in the image below.

2. A Unit setup window will appear Choose  US Standard and than select Decimal Feet.

3. Now take any object of your choice like i have taken a pen model.

4. On the top viewport put the pen model on the centre of the grid.

5. Now go to Tools ,then select Grids and Snaps and then Grid and Snap settings…

6. Under Grid and Snap settings select the Home grid tab and assign the Grid Spacing value to 1 i.e one feet .

7. Now for taking the grid view we need to have our viewport background color white so that we can see the grid lines accurately. So for that we will have to Go to Customize – Customize User Interface…

8. Under the Customize User Interface select the Colors tab and set the Viewport Background color to White.

9. Now as u can see below the viewport color has been changed to white. Select the object and assign black color to it .

10. Now see the viewport in wireframe mode. This is exactly what i wanted. Most of the work is done , we just have to take out a render jpeg of this scene.

11. Again go to Tools – Grab Viewport.

12. A Grab Active Viewport window will appear. Name your Jpeg as i have give a name top grid.

13. Now as soon as you click on grab, a render like window will appear on the screen.

14. For saving the grid view render click on the icon below that i have marked, name your file select jpeg and then click on save button.

Here’s the final render .

I hope this tutorial will be helpful  in your project and you like it too  :-)

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Step 1:

Click on rendering tab > Render setup and  assign Renderer as Vray .

Create a basic scene , i have taken Max’s standard primitive Teapot with 32 segments and a plane. Assign a white diffuse material to plane.

Step 2: Teapot Material

Now lets apply a chrome material to our teapot, Apply the material as shown in the image

These are the settings for chrome material, You can adjust ref glossiness according to your needs.

Step 4 : Render settings

Now its time set different render settings, for this click on rendering tab as shown in the image below, than click in render setup , you can also hit F10 ( shortcut for render setup).

Go to Vray tab  switch off  the default lights and do rest of the settings according to the following images.

Step 5: Hit Render

Now hit f9 To see how our render is looking, the render will look something like the image shown below, you can see some black color reflections on the teapot and not looking good at all , so to get rid of this black reflection we need to apply  an environment map in our scene. we will do it in next step.

Step 5 : Applying Vray HDRI map to the Environment

Open material editor and take a fresh material editor slot click on diffuse button and take Vray HDRI map as shown in the figure.

Click on Browse button and select HDRI map . i am using a studio HDRI map which i have downloaded from internet. If you dont have any HDRI file you can download them for free from the following Link:

http://www.evermotion.org/download

Step 6: Assign  HDRI file to  Environment

Now we have hdri file and we need to apply it on our scene environment. For this go to render setup and open vray tab> Go to vray environment. Drag HDRI map to GI environment and gi reflection slots. If you have any refractive objects in your scene you can also drag the hdri map to GI refraction slot.

Step 7: Place Vray lights

Now our scene is ready , but there are no lights in the scene, lets quickly add some lights to our scene, I have placed three vray lights with intensity multiplier as 3. You can increase and decrease the values according to your requirement.

Final Output:

Hit render and now you can see a huge  difference . Hope you find this tutorial helpful , If you have any questions feel free to contact me anytime at ram@animationscope.com

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VRay Edges Texture is a very simple texture map that allows  to achieve an effect similar to the wire frame materials in 3ds Max.

So lets get started.

Step1 – Take a model in which you want to apply the Vray edges Texture like i have made this scene as you can see below.

Step 2 - Now when the model is ready apply the studio lights setup as we have already posted the studio lighting setup tutorial earlier if u haven’t read that see the link - http://animationscope.com/main/mobile-phone-rendering/.

Step 3 - After making the studio setup we will now proceed to the material editor by pressing M. Select a material slot  go to diffuse tab and assign VRayEdges Tex .

Step 4 - The parameters of VRayEdge Tex will appear after selecting  it . Choose the color of wire edges and give some thickness value. The basic theory of the VRay Edge Tex material is as given below -

Color – the color of the edges

Hidden edges – when checked, this will render all edges of the object. Otherwise, only edges marked as “visible” will be rendered.

Thickness – this determines the thickness of the edge lines:

World units – the thickness is in world (scene) units.

Pixels – this thickness is in pixels. When the texture is used as a bump map, this parameter is ignored; instead, only the World units are considered.

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Step 2 - Type in your text. Choose a font according to your choice.

Step 3 – Select the extrude modifier and extrude the text with amount value.

Step4 - Create a box behind the text for the background.

Step 5 – Go to render settings and assign Vray.

Step 6 - Go to material editor by pressing M and select a slot. Go to standard and select VRayMtl as shown in the image below.

Step 7 - Choose dark brown  color in the diffuse and in the reflection slot choose  lighter shade of black for the reflections in the background.Assign this material to  the background.

Step 8 - Select the another slot for the text . Go to standard and select VRaylightMtl and select green color(increase the value of color if you need more glow).

Step 9 - Select the third material slot and assign VRayMtl to it. Choose white color in the diffuse and assign it to the front polygons of the text .

Step 10 - Put two omni lights in the scene and set the value of multiplier according to your scene as i have chosen 0.8.

Step 11 - Now the final step is to do some settings in the vray.Go to Vray::Global switches- off default lights. On reflection and refraction under the Vray::Environment. Now select the indirect illumination tab and go to Vray::Indirect illumination(GI) on GI select irradiance map in primary bounces and light cache in the secondary  bounces. Set the current preset to low for higher speed of rendering.

Now here is the final render. Enjoy

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Final Result:

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It was June 2009 when i saw  nokia’s new headset N97 , Its design is so eyecatching which made me and my freind Ritesh Khare to design its 3d model.

After the completion of 3D modeling in 3DS Max i used UVW Unwrap to assign textures to the model, I need only few surfaces to be unwrap such as the front panel in which main LCD screen and calling buttons are there, Below is UVW template which i exported to Photoshop for texturing:

For Lighting up the scene i use basic studio rendering technique in Vray.

Here are the values of some VRAY materials i used :

I used basic chrome material for the upper portion of the model, i used the same material for the button which is near to LCD.

For the bottom part i used almost same  material, only the refl. glossiness is decreased to 0.8, For the digits i made separate maps and assign them to every single digit with basic vray material without any reflections. a slight Grey material used for the button base.

LIGHTING :

As i have told you earlier , i have used basic Vray studio lighting setup, here are setup and settings :

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Render settings:

For the Vray  lights i have used the intensity 2 and 5 respectively ( right and left), for the top light i have used the intensity as 3 .

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Here are the maps i used in extinguisher:

1) Diffuse Map

2) Normal Map

3) Displacement Map:

4) Specular Map

For the wall i used three maps : Diffuse, Bump and displacement.

Final Preview:

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