This is a post i copied most of these links will be familiar to alot of you but its a nice collection of them i copied form a thread at another site read this one first: http://www.erikasorson.com/tutorial...ubdivision.html then this: http://maxrovat.sns.hu/subdiv/ then this: http://www.izware.com/news/indexa446.html then go here: http://ambient-whisper.cgcommunity....ial/Page-1.html then here: http://cube.phlatt.net/home/spiraloid/ also you asked for lighting tuts http://www.3d-worxx.de/tutorials/lighting.html http://www.geocities.com/pixelmagic2002/Page1.html [An awesome GI tutorial! Worth checking out even for advanced artists.] ***** + http://www.3d-worxx.de/tutorials/lighting.html [A set of lighting tips. Very good explanations.] ***** http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutor...&stage=5&page=0 [Lighting without using lights... Stupid?.. no.] ***** http://www.the3dstudio.com/tutorials.asp?id=7 [radiosity tutorial. Essential.] *** http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_educa...ctor_lights.htm [Projection maps for making a forest scene.] ***** http://www.nawyecky.com/tuts/tut-gi.htm [Another good GI tutorial.] ***** http://www.the3dstudio.com/tutorials.asp?id=121 [soft shadows (GI again). A very full of examples tutorial.] **** http://www.3dlight.com/page-lighting.htm [matching lighting in compositing.] **** http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutoria...3ptlighting.asp [Three point lighting setup... Or so called "modeling with light".] ***** http://www.3d-worxx.de/tutorials/lighting.html [Some basic explanation of lighting.] **** http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutor...&stage=2&page=0 [Some research on a spotlight's anatomy...] **** http://www.the3dstudio.com/tutorials.asp?id=97 [faking sunlight.] *** http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutor...&stage=5&page=0 [using negative light.] **** http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutor...&stage=3&page=0 [Selecting which lights should affect diffuse, which ambien, which specular...] **** http://www.taffix.com/Tutorials/Lighting/light03.htm [Some explanation about painting with light.] **** http://www.3dlight.com/page-softlights.htm [This one's very usefull for making realistic lighting.] **** http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutor...&stage=4&page=0 [The light's Including/excluding list.] **** http://www.taffix.com/Tutorials/Lighting/Light001.htm [How to lith a scene properly... Basics.] *** http://www.the3dstudio.com/tutorials.asp?id=8 [That's one interesting tutorial about using light flters.] *** http://www.maxhelp.com/content/tuto...smoky/smoky.htm [some practice with volume lights.] *** http://maxfreek2.tripod.com/Tutorials/Tut02.htm [my desk lamp's symptom...] ** http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/tutorials...lume/volume.asp [some more basic practice with volume lights.] *** http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutoria...3ptlighting.asp [I like this one... It makes your characters look much better.] **** http://interneteye3d.com/Tutorials/...CAL/default.asp [the usual way of doing area lights in Max.] **** http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorial.../striplight.asp [VERY usefull! may be used instead of a softlight, but that's not easy to apply to animatuions.] these were copied from this thread: http://www.threedy.com/showthread.p...15&pagenumber=1 where you can find a load more tutorials on various topics. That should keep you going for a while

Travis, the links with "...." wont work....

yeah sorry i just copied these to notepad and pasted so youll have to copy and paste each one to the adress bar

Thanks for the links... now just need some time to go through them :)

The izware.com is a dead one. I think they closed or something else. Nobody on the Wings3D forums have been able to get into Izware for many weeks now. I wanted to look at their Nendo tutorials, cause Wings3D is based on this and the tutos should work fine, but like I said, no working link there.

Thanks Travis, these look like great links! But as Volk23 said, the middle section of many of the addresses are missing, copying and pasting doesn't help. Could you point us towards the original thread to save you putting them all up again, (the middle of the original thread address is missing too!) Thanks Baz

Some interesting reading there. Ya know, one of these days we need to get a group web page up where we can all post our links to. Like you, I have tons in various categories and subdirectories. Its almost like we need a search engine for 3d, but one with categories that we might not think to type into google.

Cool links!!!! Thanks for the Input!