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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
- An Introduction To Glass
- Gems 101

Quick Flames

Rodrigo Duarte May, 25th 2012 0 Comments

Flames are not easy. This quick approach yields good, quick flames. We will use a Temple Menorah (7-armed jewish lampstand) because it holds several flames.

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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
- An Introduction To Glass
- Gems 101

Frosted glass

Rodrigo Duarte May, 23rd 2012 3 Comments

CX Beginner, CX Texturing

Strata 3D allows us to render blurred transparency. This is a boon for creating materials such as frosted glass. Renderings with blurred transparency are slower but the results are well worth it.

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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
- An Introduction To Glass
- Gems 101

Recursive images (cut, paste and render)

Rodrigo Duarte May, 21st 2012 0 Comments

CX Rendering, CX Texturing

Recursive images are those images in which an element repeats itself "infinitely" on an image. With the power of 3D it is relatively easy to achieve this effect, reusing renders as image maps for a texture and then re-rendering.

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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
8.0 Specific

Understanding Adaptive Sampling

Christopher Tyler May, 21st 2012 2 Comments

CX Advanced, CX Rendering, CX Version 7 Specific, Design 3D CX

This quick tutorial shows how to use the Adaptive Sampling variable in the Details tab of the rendering dialog to control the quality of blurry reflections.

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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
- An Introduction To Glass
- Gems 101

Making planets

Rodrigo Duarte May, 18th 2012 7 Comments

CX Beginner, CX Texturing

We will learn how to make planets with spheres and the Solid Terrain and Solid Rock shaders. We will use a Starfield background to finish the scene

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by Rodrigo Duarte: - How To Create Basic Metallic Textures
- An Introduction To Glass
- Gems 101

Blown-out highlights in Strata 3D and Photoshop

Rodrigo Duarte May, 16th 2012 1 Comment

CX Beginner, CX Rendering

Blown-out highlights are supposed to be an undesirable effect in photography, but they often add a desirable glow to images. We will use the Render to Layers feature in Strata Design 3D to add glow to a render.

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Quick Flames

Frosted glass

Recursive images (cut, paste and render)

Understanding Adaptive Sampling

Making planets

Blown-out highlights in Strata 3D and Photoshop