Learn how to use the Blend material type.

This tutorial will teach you how to create and apply a reflective material with ease. You are required to have some basic knowledge on how to use 3D Studio Max to follow this tutorial. Our end result should look similar to the image below.

This tutorial is for making a procedural gravel material within the 3DS Max material Editor.

Fire, fire, fire...nothing satisfies the 3D-loving soul quite like a beautiful fire. This is part one of a two tutorial series for creating a full-blown fire animation. In this tutorial, I will show you how to make the fire material.

This tutorial covers all the main options in the material editor and UV mapping a simple object. Great for beginners.

This tutorial will teach you how to create a realistic looking object using V-Ray which is a very popular renderer that is widely used in the making of movies and videogames. V-Ray is not a built-in tool in 3D Studio Max and will have to be installed before attempting this tutorial. You can learn more about V-Ray from the official website of Chaos Group - the makers of V-Ray. This tutorial is only involved with the process of creating a V-Ray render and will not involve any modeling. You may want to have a view at other tutorials hosted at Oman3D if you would like to learn about other topics such as modeling.

This tutorial is broken up into 3 parts, to show 3 different methods of texturing a beach ball, all of which will acheive the same result. Hopefully, in these tutorials, you will learn some major concepts of texturing to use on future projects.

This tutorial will introduce you to the material editor which provides just about every feature you would ever want customize for a material.

very simple tutorial which will teach you how to make cool looking Car Paint Materials. You'll need to download E-light - free max script.c

Learn how to have more than 24 materials in Max.