{"id":1861,"date":"2014-07-31T09:24:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T13:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2025-02-28T12:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:13:24","slug":"writing-for-3d-totals-book-3ds-max-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/index.php\/writing-for-3d-totals-book-3ds-max-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing for 3D Total&#8217;s book &#8220;3DS Max Projects&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, Samuel Conlogue here! Our schedule has been pretty stacked lately, but when 3D Total asked if I&#8217;d like to contribute to their book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.3dtotal.com\/books\/3dsmax-books\/3dsmax-projects.html#t3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3DS Max Projects<\/a>&#8221; I made some room on the schedule and got to writing. My work on the 5 &#8220;Introduction to Lighting&#8221; chapters I was responsible for was based off an original 3D Total Lighting tutorial written by Andrew Finch. Andrew was busy working on another book for 3D Total so I filled in to do the updated version for this book.<\/p>\n<p>The areas covered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fog\/mist at nighttime<\/li>\n<li>Sunrise\/sunset<\/li>\n<li>Moonlight<\/li>\n<li>Midday sun<\/li>\n<li>Overcast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So the assets were handed over from the original\u00a0tutorial with my task being to rewrite\u00a0and re-render everything\u00a0with updated lighting techniques in Max using Mental Ray and Photometric Lights. I also added a post work section to each chapter covering compositing your rendered stills in Adobe After Effects. I went with After Effects for it&#8217;s native 32-bit support and the fact Photoshop post techniques have been pretty well covered online and in books at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Below are a couple pages of my work on the book. In total I believe I wrote somewhere in the order of 25 pages for the book, and had a blast doing it!<\/p>\n<p>Misty Night shot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/3ds_max_projects_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1859\" src=\"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/3ds_max_projects_2.jpg\" alt=\"3ds_max_projects_2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/3ds_max_projects_2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/3ds_max_projects_2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>Mid-day scorching sun:<a href=\"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/3ds_max_projects_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1858\" src=\"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/3ds_max_projects_1.jpg\" alt=\"3ds_max_projects_1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/3ds_max_projects_1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/3ds_max_projects_1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, Samuel Conlogue here! Our schedule has been pretty stacked lately, but when 3D Total asked if I&#8217;d like to contribute to their book &#8220;3DS Max Projects&#8221; I made some room on the schedule and got to writing. My work on the 5 &#8220;Introduction to Lighting&#8221; chapters I was responsible for was based off an original 3D Total Lighting tutorial written by Andrew Finch. Andrew was busy working on another book for 3D Total so I filled in to do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,118,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232,"href":"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/2232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czarviz.com\/infusionstudios3d\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}