http://www.squirrelyjones.com/public/fur.pdf Kinda gives an understanding on what Max set up is like. What the tutorial guy used as a tutorial originally.
There are no tutorials at the moment, but you can take a look at the screenshots in the first post, or the included example shaders! There will be tutorials on release, but right now it's only an alpha :)
Ah good call, I forgot about that one. There's a video tutorial for it at http://www.mesmer.com/ > video tutorials >lighting and rendering >front/back switch
I made a tutorial on modular pieces in my artsation challenge tutorial series, it would probably be applicable to building fantasy environments :) https://youtu.be/xC0uL_QQWeY
Below u can see my result of the great Mech Tutorial by Tim Bergholz / chamferzone. I really enjoyed that great tutorial and can absolutely recommend it.
Found a tutorial which explains how to do that with xnormal aswell. http://www.donaldphan.com/tutorials/xnormal/xnormal_occ.html a bit scrolling and your there. nice for highlights it seems.