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by: Joshua R. Andersen, Ralph Frantz, Jason Gray, Jason Greene, Eric Greenleir, William Harbison, Paul Kakert, Sanford Kennedy, Randy Kreitzman, Bob Lamb, George Maestri, Jesse K. Miguel, Larry Minton  List Price: $99.99 Price: $18.99 You Save: $81.00 (81%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.693 EAN: 9781562057787 Edition: Har/Com ISBN: 1562057782 Label: New Riders Publishing Manufacturer: New Riders Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1484 Publication Date: 1997-07 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Studio: New Riders Publishing Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 3D Studio Max for Windows 95 and Windows NT, the high-end 3-D modeling and animation package from Kinetix, is as complex as it is powerful. This guide, the second of three volumes for accomplished 3D Studio Max users, focuses on helping you create architectural, engineering, and character models and design models for VR (virtual reality) and the Web. The authors devote much attention to acquiring and managing material maps and creating natural, man-made, special effects, and animated materials. You get plenty of step-by-step instruction along with four-color illustrations of the project files. A CD-ROM includes sample files and utilities. Book Description: Building on the previous edition, this book covers the most challenging and popular elements of 3D Studio MAX. With complete versions of Volume II: Advanced Modeling and Materials and Volume III: Animation, plus exclusive bonus chapters, this must-have resource has all the tools and information you need to advance to a new level of knowledge and understanding. Written by a team of 3D Studio MAX professionals, this comprehensive guide has an extensive collection of information that can't be found anywhere else. With more than 50 step-by-step tutorials, authoritative advice, and real-world examples, you'll learn the secrets for creating high-end models, materials, and animations from 20 of the most experienced 3D Studio MAX users. Create spectacular textures with the Materials Editor. Master advanced modeling capabilities of 3D Studio MAX. Use high-end techniques to create the most stunning, realistic models, materials, and animations.
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 Rating:  - Not for beginnersThis was my first book that I purchased for learning 3d studio max.. I also bought the fundamental book too.. I've only flip through couples of pages then I put it away to collect dust. The exercise are hard to follow, they gave complete instruction for teaching you a certain command. But you wouldn't find motivation to delve in to the 3d world by building something that's meaningless. The book is only good for advance user as it'll teaches you how to press certain short cut keys and stuff.. Read More Rating:  - Inside 3D Studio MAX Volume 2 Advance Modeling and MaterialThis book is not bad, just lack of good modeling example, this book is really for beginner, Anyway, the mapping tutorials are good. Rating:  - 1100 Rating:  - Did something die in this book? Cause it stinks.Boy, not only is this thing boring and monotonous, it tries to cover everything really fast. So what you get is a paragraph describing a really important function. And the book is filled with these tiny paragraphs. The first quarter of the book involves real boring things that people on this planet grow up knowing. Like organizing things and what not. If you are reaally hard core and want to totally devote your life to 3dsmax, do not get this book. Cause half your life is going to be spent trying ... Read More Rating: - Great book for the intermediate user.This book upgraded my skill 10 fold. After reading this book my work was shockingly better and I also go back and use it as reference all the time. If you can name a function or tool in 3dsmax you will find a section on it in this book. I mean we are talking a book with 6 pages just for bevel. The organization of the chapters and tools is genius. This book will not tell you how to model, it will tell you how to use the tools and functions of 3d Studio Max. I would buy this book even if they charged ... Read More 
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