Arnold Saturday Cafe, 14th August 2021, QA with Mads Drøschler Mads Drøschler 2021-08-14 | Ask Arnold related questions.
How to create an OSL Qt UI in 3ds max. Mads Drøschler 2022-03-19 | Instruction material:How to create and bind a Qt UI for OSL shaders in 3ds max.
Arnold Saturday Cafe, 24th June 2021, QA with Mads Drøschler Mads Drøschler 2021-07-24 | Ask Arnold related questions.
Arnold Friday Cafe, 16th June 2021, QA with Mads Drøschler Mads Drøschler 2021-07-17 | Ask Arnold related questions.
ARNOLD 3DS MAX: LED Wall, emission and mesh light. Mads Drøschler 2021-01-14 | Learn to remove excessive calculations and get faster results using trace sets and Arnold ray switcher.The setup give full flexibility, you can adjust the LED panels strength independant of the GI light calculation to get the visual result you need.
3DS MAX 2021 Arnold OSL Shaders: Ocean Mads Drøschler 2020-05-17 | OSL Ocean rendered with Arnold GPU.Manipulator vst for voice alteration.Renderes in 2.5 seconds pr frame in 1080pUsed 3DS MAX 2021, Arnold 6, OSL, Renoise.
GL to OSL, random pattern from glslsandbox.com Mads Drøschler 2020-05-01 | Learn how to clean a typical GL shader so it compiles in OSL.Source: http://glslsandbox.com/e#63683.1
How to render transparent glass using Arnold in 3ds Max Mads Drøschler 2020-01-18 | I see many people bring up this issue, they typically come from MR and want to be able to render glass and composit some new background in, in photoshop or something of that nature.Here is a full guide how to do that with Arnold.
OSL Programming: Lets write a proper Normal Blend Map Mads Drøschler 2019-12-13 | In this video, we go over some of the basic principles of writing small utility shaders in OSL for 3DS MAX. The shaders can be used in Maya, Houdini, C4D and so on as well.The shader is based around an article by Colin Barré-Brisebois and Stephen Hill, where they show many popular blend modes and then their own superior construct called reoiriented normal blending.blog.selfshadow.com/publications/blending-in-detailYou can download the shader directly from my site here:https://www.masd.dk/osl-shaders-normalblend/And you can read an article I wrote about the shader, here:https://www.masd.dk/osl-programming-lets-write-a-reoriented-normal-blend-map/If you have any questions, let me know beneath, and dont forget to hit that subscribe button.
3DS MAX: OSL Shading a Tree with Element ID for leafs and render with Arnold Mads Drøschler 2019-12-05 | In this video we go over a tree with multiple Material IDs and generate an Element ID on a specific Material ID and use OSL shaders to trigger randomization of leaf textures and render with Arnold.
Arnold 3ds MAX: AO Light Filter Mads Drøschler 2019-11-25 | DOWNLOAD - https://www.masd.dk/arnold-ao-light-filter/Hello there.In this tutorial we see how to setup and operate the Arnold AO Light filter which is a custom 3rd party shader I maintain for Arnold.You can use it as a substitution or a complementary light effect when you want renders to go blistering fast.Works with: Arnold 5 In Max,Maya,Houdini,C4D,Katana
3ds MAX + OSL + Vertex Paint masking Mads Drøschler 2019-11-19 | How to link up vertex painter tool for masking in/out various shading aspects, I show diffuse and specular roughness channels but you can build any other kind of controller easily, using noises for edges, all painting live.I created a custom displacement output from the bitmap that has BLUR on it, try look at it.You can download the 2020 file here:github.com/gkmotu/ArnoldSceneConverterScripts3DSMAX/blob/master/Scenes
Arnold Converter installation guide for 3DS MAX Mads Drøschler 2019-10-19 | Learn how to install the Arnold Converter scripts for 3ds max, along with custom created shaders to convert from Vray, Corona and other legacy types to Arnold.Let me know about bugs, and requests so we can expand this for you guys!FILES:https://www.masd.dk/arnoldconverter/
3DS MAX + OSL: How to create custom colors for Normals in a few simple steps. Mads Drøschler 2019-10-05 | We go over the process of analysing and extracting and using the standard normal colors as masks for user defined normal colors.You can download the final shader here :github.com/gkmotu/OSL-Shaders/blob/master/Normal_CustomColor.osl
OSL + Arnold shading: How to make an Element ID for leafs on a tree for variation Mads Drøschler 2019-06-28 | In this video ( which was made for an Arnold customer ) we go over the steps of how to generate an Element ID which sits on a specific Material ID - a tree with leafs.Utilizing RGBA Switch shader nodes.You can do the exact same thing with OSL nodes.
Arnold GPU + OptiX Denoiser, 3DS MAX Interior with skylight setup Mads Drøschler 2019-06-28 | Hello.In this video I show you how to enable the OptiX denoiser in junction with the Arnold GPU renderer in 3DS MAX for rapid prototyping architectural interior viz, using very few and simple components.You will also learn how to use the Arnold GPU renderer in the 3DS MAX viewport directly.
3DS MAX + OSL, Smoketunnel preview Mads Drøschler 2019-06-11 | Source GL: Nimitz cc3.0shadertoy.com/view/3l23RhOSL Code:github.com/gkmotu/OSL-Shaders/blob/master/smoketunnel.oslThe main volume noise is generated from a deformed periodic grid, which can produce a large range of noise-like patterns at very cheap evalutation cost. Allowing for multiple fetches of volume gradient computation for improved lighting. To further accelerate marching, since the volume is smooth, more than half the the density information isn't used to rendering or shading but only as an underlying volume distance to determine dynamic step size, by carefully selecting an equation (polynomial for speed) to step as a function of overall density (not necessarialy rendered) the visual results can be the same as a naive implementation with ~40% increase in rendering performance. Since the dynamic marching step size is even less uniform due to steps not being rendered at all the fog is evaluated as the difference of the fog integral at each rendered step.
3DS MAX - How to create your own Scene converter rules from scratch. Mads Drøschler 2019-04-24 | Get some scripts!DOWNLOAD. Repository: github.com/gkmotu/ArnoldSceneConverterScripts3DSMAX
Arnold GPU: OptiX denoiser, emissive quad light texture to atmospheric volume. Mads Drøschler 2019-03-22 | Lets make a very fast volumetric light source from a texture in a few simple steps.
Arnold Technical Shading: Tiled triangles and OSL controlboard. Mads Drøschler 2019-03-12 | In this video we go over how to create a procedural triangle that tiles, offsets, rotates.We also look at how to create an OSL controlboard with abitrary numbers normalized in the UI to make manipulations easier.
Arnold Technical shading: Primitive shapes for displacements and masking. Mads Drøschler 2019-03-08 | In this video, I go over how to create a base shape shader. It can make everything from triangles up to a circle, in steps.You can use it for masking, displacing complex shape structures if you build many shapes together into fine structures.Let me know if something is not working for you in the comment fields.- Mads
Arnold & 3DSMAX, multiple float controls within 1 material. Mads Drøschler 2019-01-30 | Arnold & 3DSMAX, how to control multiple float values in 1 material via mtlID and Switch RGBA constructs
3DS MAX & Arnold, .tx texture pipeline converter workflow Mads Drøschler 2018-12-25 | In this video we go over how to convert abitrary texture formats to optimized .tx files, that will leave a smaller memory footprint and start to render much faster than an ad hoc solution. It's great for heavy textureload scenes and stuff down that road.You would need 2 files, a converter bat file and a max script file.Converter file goes into "shell:sendto" and you can select files in explorer and access the converter through windows rightclick menu item "Send to"The other file is a 3ds max scene converter rule, converting 3ds max legacy bitmaps into Arnold Image nodes, this is needed since the old legacy node does not load .tx files or have mip map controls opposed to the Arnold Image node.Link to Github repository:github.com/gkmotu/ArnoldSceneConverterScripts3DSMAX
OSL Shader R&D - Terrain displacement fBm Mads Drøschler 2018-06-09 | Some R&D shader compiled in OSL.So this could be some kind of base function to generate primary terrain displacements, still working on the actual generator and looks this is just the first compile.
Tree, crab and probes - Arnold render Mads Drøschler 2018-05-31 | Made a short video with Arnold render for Autodesk, used in the initial marketing of Arnold intergration in 3DS MAX.
3ds Max 2019 - OSL Tutorial: How to randomize image distribution on instances Mads Drøschler 2018-04-27 | You will learn how to manually setup an OSL network to randomize bitmap distribution and rotation on instances in 3ds max 2019
3ds Max 2019 - OSL Shaders Mads Drøschler 2018-03-20 | OSL shading in 3ds max 2019.Video and music produced by Mads Drøschler to show what is possible to do with OSL shading directly inside 3ds max.
