Tutorial in SPANISH with a large collection of architectural materials. You can download the bitmaps you will be using Here. It is not for a specific version of Vray, It explains every material done, with theory and buttons.

Tutorial en castellano con una amplia colección de materiales arquitectónicos. Podeis descargar los bitmaps que se utilizarán Aqui.No es para una versión específica de vray. Explica cada material, tanto en la teoría como los botones.

Video tutorial in SPANISH with all the new features of vray 2.0 for 3dsmax. 70 min aprox.

Video tutorial en castellano con todas las novedades de la versión de vray 2.0 para 3dsmax. 70 min aprox.

LESSON 1. VUE TUTORIALS. Results of the 9 lessons.

click HERE (100MB) if you want to download the files used to follow this course. I had to convert all images to jpg and png to minimize downloading time, so some maps might have different format than the tutorial ones.

LESSON 1. Interface and workflow 

Videotutorial, 47 min. Vue Xstream V8.

Landscape Animation
- Basic interface.
- Vue Workflow.
- Intro to Vue Objects.
- Terrains. Types. Heightfield, procedural, infinite terrains.
- Editing Terrains. Intro to 3D 
- Sculpting tools. Zones.
- Vue 8 Terrain editor, painting mixed materials.
- Plants and Metaclouds intro.
- Atmosphere Basics.
- Creating a quick environment in 15 minutes.
- Intro to Ecosystem. Dynamic population.
- Animation Wizard.
- Intro de render Qualities.

LESSON 2. Winter Animation 

Videotutorial, 120 min. Vue Xstream V7.5

- Rocks.
- Using displacement with rocks.
- Layering vs mixing materials.
- Displacement with mixed and multilayer materials.
- Basic function editor management. Filters.
- Plants. From plant species. Editing their materials.
- Vue 7 Terrain editor.
- Populating ecosystems. Affinity & Repulsion.
- Introduction to atmosphere & clouds. Metaclouds.
- Basic animation. Water surface, camera movement, breeze.
- Animation rendering.
- Antialiasing, render quality.

LESSON 3. Landscape Animation 

Videotutorial, 105 min. Vue Xstream V7.5

- Using imported meshes as terrains. UVs.
- Mask painting in Z-Brush
- Using material layers and mixing materials
- Function editing. Alpha and transparency.
- Ecosystems. Multiple ecosystems vs one single ecosystem.
- Density maps.
- Atmpspherics: Haze, Fog, Sky, Aereal perspective, Breeze
- Clouds. Spectral clouds, metaclouds.
- Simple animation. Clouds, camera, vegetation.
- Animation rendering.

LESSON 4. Concept & Fake animation 

Videotutorial, 85 min. Vue Xstream V7.5

- Terrain Editor. Using Custom Maps to generate Terrains.
- Mixing bitmaps and procedural textures in terrains.
Combiner, Blender Nodes.
- Terrain Clipping.
- Brushes in Terrain Edition. Brush Modes. Airbrush Style.
- Ecosystem population. Rocks. Affinity.
- Layering multiple Ecosystems.
- Material Layering.
- Individual Plants and Ecosystem Plant distribution.
- Object Layers.
- Rendering Multipass Buffer.
- Render Resolutions.
- Faking animation with Nuke.

LESSON 5. Night Scene Animation 

Videotutorial, 63 min. Vue Xstream V8

- Importing max objects into vue. Obj. UVs.
- System Units.
- Materials: Using normal maps in Vue.
- Reflection in materials.
- Using layered materials with rendered textures. Adding Dirt with procedural texures.
- Quadratic lights.
- Using reference meshes for terrain creation.
- Vue 8 terrain editor. Sculpting, Zones. Airbrush in Vue 8.
Subdivision in Terrains. 
- Animating a camera. Animation Curves.
- Ecosystem painting.

LESSON 6. Mountain Path Animation 

Videotutorial, 72 min. Vue Xstream V8

- Imported meshes. Normal mapping. UVs troubles.
- Polygon mesh options. Dynamic subdivisions. Decimation.
- Displacement. Problems with non procedural meshes.
- Bump, normal bump and displacement.
- Assigning textures. Input nodes.
- Hypertexture materials.
- Night atmosphere. GI faking. Light influences.
- Improving Clouds. Spectral clouds and Light interaction.
- Bringing a camera animation from max.
- Animation rendering. Multiframe antialiasing.

LESSON 7. Simple Environment

Videotutorial, 27 min. Vue Xstream V7.5

- Using Primitive OBjects.
- Scatter and Replicate.
- Metablob objects. Options.
- Material Editor. Influence of Environment in Mixed MAterials.
- Blender and combiner Nodes. Combination Modes.
- Ecosystems. Rocks.Assigning Procedural materials to rocks.
- Paint Ecosystem vs. Material Ecosystem.
- Infinite terrains, Seas.
- Using Imported meshes. Sea Foam not working with foreign objects.
- Atmospheres.

LESSON 8. Vue in Max (MR) Theory

Videotutorial, 57 min. Vue Xstream V8

- Vue inside Max. Interface. Workflow. Customize Interface.
- Scene Contents.
- Mental Ray Final Gather and Vue Atmosphere.
- Vue Global Radiosity in Max.
- Vue Lights Vs. Max Lights. 
- Shadowing. Max lights and area shadows.
- Materials: Max materials for max objects, Vue Materials for Vue objects.
- Copying Vue objects in the scene.
- Mr Sun, Mr Sky. Troubleshooting.
- Ecosystems inside max.
- Antialiasing. Vue or max.
- Terrain editor. Adapting vue environment to max scene.

LESSON 9. House animation, integration in 3dsmax 

Videotutorial, 69 min. Vue Xstream V8

- Creating a Terrain. Adapting the Terrain to the max scene.
- Terrain Editor. Sculpting.
- Camera management. Changing Lenses. Camera correction Mod.
- Atmosphere.lightning model.
- Managing sunlight.
- Night atmosphere. GI faking.
- Creating a Planet.
- Global Lightning Adjustments.
- Light properties. Softness in Vue Lights. No soft shadows with max lights.
- Animation rendering. Multiframe antialiasing.
- Painting Ecosystems in Max.
- Camera animation. Exporting animation to Vus Scene.