Dome Light for GI

There is a simple script from me.
Create sphere array of lights to simulate GI for fast rendering.

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Note:
All lights are instances for easy control and also that means so you can change them at any time from Omni to Spot or Directional, and turn on targets and align them to the point center. If you prefer other type of lights, then create and align it to one of existing lights, and use instance replace. There how, if to say, you align it to DomeLight01, then delete it (DomeLight01) and select your new light, and type in the listener:

instanceReplace $DomeLight* $

Enjoy! :)

The ten top tips of texturing

by Jeroen Maton (CGSociety):

"The main goal of this article/tutorial is to give you a few hints and tricks that might help you to make your own textures look better. What you'll read are things other people taught me, or that I had to discover for myself. They are not the only way to handle some of the problems, but over the years I've found that these work best."

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Falling Water

Creating a partical system waterfall in 3DSMAX.

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Simulating Radiosity

When to fake it in 3DSMAX.

(Sean Looper - Kitchen Sink Studios)

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Select by color

I did not expect that someone will want script to select by color, then in Max exist "Edit > Select By > Color", but if for some reason you need to do this by script, here's how:

clr = $.wirecolor -- get color from selected
for i in $* where (i.wirecolor == clr) do selectMore i
-- that's all :)

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