In this tutorial we'll be looking at techniques for using textures and materials to create realistic objects.

This tutorial I'll demonstrate how to create a nice brick wall using bitmaps.

Okay first things first, this is a tutorial on how to make a silk material out of just procedural maps (well can be just procedural and one bitmap).

So you wanna make some simple, yet realistic water like in the example below?

This is a basic tutorial, suitable for beginners, it produces a realistic glass effect using only the scanline renderer.

You'll learn how to model and texturize a fine wine glass in 3D Studio.

Multi/Sub-Object Materials are quite commonly used whilst modelling with polys, but alot of beginners to 3DS Max aren't aware of how to do this. I'm not sure about poly modelling with charachters, but whenever i model an interior in Max, i always use Multi/Sub-Object Material/s for the reason that it is quicker and more organised than having to detach every face and apply a material seperately.

This tutorial will show you how to make a somewhat complex procedural material that would work for some strange organic object.

In this tutorial you will learn how to create gold, silver, and copper material. Key terms include reflection, specular, index of refraction, fresnel, and fall-off. This tutorial is aimed at both beginners and professionals. Although this tutorial is based on 3D Studio Max, the same settings (such as the RGB color values) apply to many other 3D products.In my search for gold material and other metals such as silver and copper, I noticed there are a lot of different opinions on how to create them. There is probably some truth in most of them, but since many of those opinions conflict, they can't all be right. I'm not saying I'm right either, I'm probably not actually because there is always room for improvement. I've read several boring papers and done about 40 test renders (that takes about two eternities on my PC) before I got acceptable results. Let's just say that the examples below work for me and with or without a little tweaking they might work for you too.

In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to use the electric map plugin from Blur Beta to make a rusty material.