Part 1 - Set Up The Scene - Arnold for 3ds Max

This tutorial will cover how to recreate the above render using a high resolution diffuse, bump and specular map connected to a Standard Surface shader. We will use a Skydome Light to create realistic specular reflections in the wood material.

• Below are the wood textures used in this example.

Specular map	Diffuse map	Bump map

• Create a polygon plane for the floor and assign a Standard Surface shader to it.
• Create a Skydome Light and connect an HDR map to its Color attribute.

Standard Surface

• Connect the diffuse map to the Base Color attribute.
• Connect the specular map to the Specular Color and Specular Weight attributes.
• Connect the bump map to the Bump Mapping parameter.

Bump Mapping

Only a very subtle Bump Depth value is required.

Bump depth: 1 (too much)	Bump depth: 0.1