While partecipating to the Lighting challenge I wrote this tutorial.
It’s about HDRI settings in 3dsmax using vray.
I’ts a small complete project that involves easy modelling, texturing, lighting and render settings.
I hope it could help (I surely enjoy writing it)
Here’s the links
http://www.webalice.it/giorgio.luciano/Matryoshka/MatryoshkaTut.html
http://utenti.lycos.it/giorgio_luciano/ (mirror click on Matryoshka)
Cheer to all
Jojo

happy someone found the tutorial useful.