Ballistic Shield: Texturing, Lighting & Rendering with 3ds Max, Photoshop and xNormal

Ballistic Shield: Texturing, Lighting & Rendering with 3ds Max, Photoshop and xNormal

on Nov 4th 2011 with 22 comments
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series 'Ballistic Shield'

In the third and final part of the Ballistic Shield tutorial. We’ll use the free program xNormal to bake out an ambient occlusion map, before moving into Photoshop to start working on our Diffuse, Bump, Opacity and Specular maps. We’ll look at some simple ways to create convincing metal textures using a combination of both images and masking techniques. Once we have the Diffuse map finalized, we’ll use it to quickly create the remaining texture maps before heading back to 3D Studio Max to construct the shader and setup the final lighting for our scene.

Part 1

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Part 2

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Part 3

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Ben is one half (literally) of the editor duo here at Cgtuts+. Ben has over eight years of experience in the computer graphics field and although he's primarily a hard surface modeler, he's also experienced in the fields of uvmapping, texturing, lighting and rendering. He has authored many tutorials and training materials focused on 3d Studio Max and hard surface modeling. You can check out Ben's website at bentateonline.com to see more of his work.  

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Discussion 22 Comments

  1. Richard. C says:
    November 4, 2011 at 6:46 am

    At long last, thanks Ben! Loving every part of it, has been very helpful. Thank you!

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  2. Luis says:
    November 4, 2011 at 10:26 am

    I like This!… fine work as always!!! thanks Ben….I wait for this a long time :D

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  3. 3d_MAX says:
    November 4, 2011 at 10:30 am

    Using a flashget for download this :) and the velocity is cool!!!!……80-120 kB/s

    Thanks Cgtuts and Ben!!!!! you are the Best my friend :D

    Reply
  4. S3bY says:
    November 4, 2011 at 10:36 am

    Great job, Ben!

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  5. cokkie.max says:
    November 4, 2011 at 11:37 am

    Thanks ben!…great work in this series.

    Wath up with the aetuts….this is down for 4 days.

    Thanks again ben and forward !!

    Reply
  6. Tioual Saeed says:
    November 4, 2011 at 12:19 pm

    Bravo Ben.
    Awsome as always

    Reply
  7. Daniel says:
    November 4, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    good job Ben, one thing though, I really hate that mouse clicks ;) is so annoying.. keep the good job!!!

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  8. Ben says:
    November 5, 2011 at 1:14 pm

    Thanks for another great series Ben.

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  9. Derek Dummy says:
    November 20, 2011 at 9:58 pm

    Very impressive Ben. You gave me lots of ideas. Not content just to follow along, I ended up discovering some great tricks in Photoshop. Enjoyed following this tutorial and experimenting and taking things in different directions.

    Thanks as always. Greets!

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  10. LoydB says:
    December 20, 2011 at 5:55 pm

    The modeling/texturing of this piece being available for free is what sold me on a premium membership. Fantastic tutorials, and you do a good job of talking about hotkeys, I learned some new ones!

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  11. LoydB says:
    December 21, 2011 at 10:07 pm

    The ‘Custom_UV_Checker’ bitmap isn’t in either of the zip files at top — is it someplace else on the site?

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  12. Cava says:
    December 25, 2011 at 12:37 am

    The video downloads are dead

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  13. ldb says:
    December 29, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    Anyone know how Ben got his red edge selections to be so thick in the viewport in the tutorial? Mine are almost invisible. :(

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  14. Steph54 says:
    January 8, 2012 at 6:36 am

    Thank you for this tutorial and a little hello from France ;)

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  15. LoydB says:
    January 10, 2012 at 9:09 pm

    Thanks for the great tutorial. My version:

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  16. Soren says:
    January 23, 2012 at 7:06 pm

    Thanks Ben! You really made some pieces fall into place for me.
    And great work on the video tut. I know how hard that is and you kept it interresting so thumbs up!

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  17. Vlad says:
    February 12, 2012 at 8:24 am

    Great tutorial! I followed all the steps and it gave me a lot! Looking forward for another one =)

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