An interesting ebook that offers some lighting lessons using 3DS Max and Mental Ray: “3D Environment Lighting is our new 84-page tutorial series, where over the course of the six chapters we will be detailing techniques on lighting an environment under a number of different conditions. Each chapter will cover a step-by-step guide to setting up lights, aimed at portraying the scene in a specific manner.” Available from 3D Total and CGSociety.
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