3d studio MAX & VRAY

WOW, max is quite impressive with its overall appearance and functionality. In a way Max is user friendly but it requires time getting to know how it operates. I spent a great deal of time this weekend doing tutorials to better understand it.

In addition, i found a program which not only increases your render times, but it renders scenes so life like, that you need to look at the final rendered image twice to figure out whether its real or not.

For those who are not familiar with VRAY ill give a brief explanation: Vray is a add-on for MAX, with its sole purpose of rendering a scene. It works with light and calculates how much light is deflected from objects in your scene. if your settings are correct (there are a whole lot of them) you may achieve realistic rendered scenes.

I found a few tutorials on the web and attempted them... i ended up doing these tutorials 2 - 3 times each.... to try and memorise the settings.

attached below are the rendered scenes: my personal favourite is the wine glass.