How to create Rust, Corten, Weathering Steel with 3DS Max and V-Ray | Leon 51 Tutorial

Create photorealistic CGI materials with 3DS Max and V-Ray — perfect for architectural visualization, shader creation, and rendering workflows.

In this tutorial I cover how to create Corten steel with 3DS Max and V-Ray. This is also called weathering steel and obviously rust.

I go over some advanced tips when creating materials and I'm showing when you add layers to materials it's because you are adding in an additional layer of grunge or detail to the render. I cover several ways to do this.

The tree in the scene, I use for shadows is downloaded from here:https://3dsky.org/3dmodels/show/tilia_tree_4_5m_1

The HDRI was created for Flying Architecture by CGBalrog and is downloadable here:https://flyingarchitecture.com/materials/free-daylight-hdri-panorama

Flying Architecture also has some other great free resources on their site.

Here's a link to the youtube tutorial.

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3DS Max Corten steel, V-Ray rust material, weathering steel tutorial, architectural visualization metals, CGI material creation, photorealistic metal V-Ray, V-Ray grunge layers, 3D rendering tutorial