Tips and Tricks for 3ds max (CGArena)

Some nice info here.   I grabbed this from: http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/15tips/15tips_tricks.html and it was care of – http://www.florencedesignacademy.com/

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Did you know that “architectural materials” and “self illuminated” materials are light emitting (for Mental Ray & Vray) ? If you apply them on a box you will get a similar effect as a “photometric area light” or [...]

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Sketchup Tips

Ronen has a very well written article for Sketchup users here:
http://www.ronenbekerman.com/9-sketchup-tips-for-better-3d-modeling-workflow/
He covers a few shortcuts and his basic flow as well as a few great script links.
Sketchup can be downloaded (For FREE!) here: http://sketchup.google.com/download/gsu.html

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