Here is a nice Low Lighting Vray Interior Tutorial with 3ds max..This vray tutorial teaches you how you could render scenes with a few lights in your scenes since most rendering tutorials that you see online have a lot of windows that use loads of lights inside the scene. With this tutorial you can see how effienctly you could render with lesser lights.

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http://www.aleso3d.com/blog/?p=574

Marvelous-D Clo3D is a 3D cloth making application that allows the user to cut cloth patterns as fashion designers would before draping and sewing them around an “avatar” (an A-posed character). For our purpose, however, MD is first and foremost an amazing cloth simulation engine, with striking real-time capability. Although it evokes 3ds Max’s garment maker and seems based on similar principles, its engine is incredibly fast and allows real-time interactions (pulling and pushing of the cloth while draping). You can simply import your object in Clo3D and start draping on it.

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http://bertrand-benoit.com/blog/2011/08/13/marvelous-d-road-tested

Check out the power of VrayRT that RenderStream has posted a test showing V-Ray RT’s performance when running on one of its workstations equipped with 8 NVidia GTX 580 GPUs. The video covers in detail the speed improvements one can attain by using V-Ray RT in the activeshade viewport. This allows for extremely rapid visual feedback on your model, lighting and shader production.As we noted in the video, we observed our VDACTr8 to be up to 68 times faster than dual 6-core X5680 CPUs.

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Evermotion has released its new unbiased rendering engine "NOX".  The development is still in the Beta Stage and its free for anyone to download and use it even for commercial projects. Well its yet another rendering engine that is out and everyone has high hopes from evermotion…check it out

http://www.evermotion.org/nox

Aleso3d.com has created a nice tutorial which teaches you how to light your interior scenes using HDRI and Vray Sun within 3ds max. The tutorial explains in detail the use of Vray Physical camera and material setups together with some modeling videos. This could really help the users who are new to 3ds max yet and can help you improve you basic skills.

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James Cutler posted a very nice tutorial of HDRI Lighting for an Architecture Exterior scene using Vray as a renderer. James has explained in great detail the technique to produce accurate HDRI lighting along with proper use vray sun. The tutorial is really cool and I suggest every new user of vray to go through.

Read More : http://www.mintviz.com/tutorials/hdri-exterior-lighting-with-vray/

Since the Release of 3ds max 2010 ..Max has shipped over 100 particle flow presets that users can make use of in their various projects. They are available in every copy of 3ds max but not a part of the default install. With the presets you can take four advantages of elemental effects such as Air, Earth, Fire, Water and as well as "Logo" presets for motion graphics.

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http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/garyd/over_100_free_particle_flow_presets

3D Mentor has released its beautiful collection of HD Flower Roses Collection. The 3D Roses collection includes 40 high and low polygon models for use in 3ds max and Cinema 4D. All the models included have materials and textures applied and are ready directly to render them in VRay, Mental Ray and Cinema 4D Advanced Render.

Read More @ http://www.3dmentor.ru

iPi Desktop Motion Capture™ is a markerless motion capture technology that literally puts motion capture at animator’s desktop. You can record a video right at your workplace using a webcam or inexpensive digital camera and have it converted to 3D animation on your PC. The technology is accurate, easy to use and affordable.

http://www.ipisoft.com/

Terragen 2.3 has been released which includes some important feature updates. The major update is the 64 bit version of Terrangen..its the first time it has been introduced which gives you a leap in speed for creating terrains and vegetations. You can work on complex scenes on systems with more than 4GB of memory and a 64 bit OS. Below are the new features added to Terragen 2.3

 -  64 bit support
 -  Rendering performance in 64 bit is improved vs. current 32 bit versions
 -  New colour picker
 -  New node palette
 -  Geometry export improvements
 - Object readers support object sequences 
 - New note node
 - UI performance and workflow improvements

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