Super, glad you like it!

***** You're very welcome! :)

Try Arnold.! :3

Super! Glad you liked it :)

+zee xhan Hi! Unfortunately I don't use VRay at all, so I wouldn't be familiar with it, but regardless the features are very similar to other rendering engines. I personally use Corona, iray and Mental Ray.

its ok to be looking for mental ray engine tutorial for presenting products modeling in 3ds max.

+Brian Gibson Reflective objects depend heavily on what's around them! If you light your subject with flat, uninteresting lights and no contrast in the environment - you'll end up with a boring image. In this case I used an HDR of a white room with a big window blasting white light - not very exciting... Give a black background with small white lights a try. Try big gradient lights over a dark background. Light strips. Try a good varied HDRI. Depends on the object, but high gloss/reflectivity + interesting, contrasting environment is the key combo :)

+PIXELFLUX Thanks for the reply... I have downloaded HDRI file and followed your steps... While rendering under iray and using only a standard sky light... with no exposure control. Everything rendered dark gray.. as if the no light or low light. However I turned light intensity up... still no change. One thing though when I pick an HDRI image and copy/instance it to material editor slot, changed to spherical the image isn't fully shown in the sample slot; perhaps my scale it wrong? maybe this is why my render is gray....

Brian Gibson Hi! The HDRI should go into the environment slot (shortcut: keypad 8) - that's where IRAY picks up the HDR environment from. The skylight is just to make IRAY turn off the 'default' max lights as iray ignores the skylight altogether while MAX turns off the default lights when there's a user-specified light in the scene. This is why turning up the skylight did nothing to change the render :) To brighten up the render once it picks up the HDRI you can either use exposure controls (MR Photographic Exposure Control) or tune the HDRI itself (set intensity of the bitmap up/down to anything else than 1). The spherical HDRI won't show up fully in the material editor. Imagine that the square material slot is rendering a piece of the environment as if there was a camera in that environment - that's what you're seeing :) Hope this helps! Don't hesitate to ask more questions :)

+PIXELFLUX I did drop the HDRI file in the environment section as I did follow your instructions. Right, regarding sky light, I was thinking that when I attempted to intensify sky light... So, I did adjust both output amount for image and exposure control. That brightened up the render... Just need to fine tune for realistic photo... Thanks for your support. So, graident lights? Photometric type (sky portal/day light) Could I use both environment and photometric lights?

Brian Gibson You can indeed use both if you want to! It's 3D so you can do whatever you want :) As for realism - you need a good HDRI set. The larger res the better!

thanks, glad you liked it! Thanks for stopping by!

Hi! You must have pressed the shortcut for scale multiple times in a row, which means you may have selected a different scale mode. You can either do that again till you come back to uniform scale or long-press the scale button in the toolbar and select it yourself. Hope this helps and thanks for watching :)

Yes, it works!! Finally I can scale right again :D Thanks a lot :)

CptJohnson23 No problem, glad I could help!

+V1n1c1us Hi! Under the modifier stack on the lower right there's a button shaped like a windows with four buttons called "Configure Modifier Sets". Just click that and you can configure your set of shortcuts from there. After you're done - click the button again and in the dropdown enable the "show buttons" option. Hope this helps!

PIXELFLUX Thanks

Which triangles? You mean your sphere is made of quads? Or that you can't see the actual lines of the model? In the first case - you need to use the GeoSphere, not a normal Sphere - watch the video on where the GeoSphere is located. To get the edge lines to show up in case you don't see them - press F4. Hope that helps!

Thank you! it worked by pressing F4. How can I make it default to show edged face ?

When you''re in "edged faces" mode (F4) - move your mouse to the top left corner of the viewport, click on [Edged Faces] > Display Selected > Display Selected with edged faces. This should make any object you click on show as edged faces regardless of your F4 toggle. I don't use this myself, I just use the toggle as I need to swap between the "clean view" and edged a lot.

thank you for the assistance.

You're welcome :)

Ohh you mentioned you forgot it in the vid. Wasn't listening sorry.

Kahru Lofiq haha, no worries. I genuinely did forget! Thanks for stopping-by :)