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Editorial Review:

The best-selling 3D Studio book of all time updated to give you the most complete coverage of MAX.

• Users will master the details of creating expert animations and outputting them to all types of media
• Shows how to optimize Windows NT for 3D Studio MAX
• Highlights tips and tricks used by the industry's hottest animation specialists
• CD-ROM includes over 200MB of original still and animated texture maps, 3D Studio MAX and Sand Blaster demos, FFD Modifier, and VRML Exporter Plug-In (beta 3) and more

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.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

Not for beginners:

This 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..

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Inside 3D Studio MAX Volume 2 Advance Modeling and Material:

This book is not bad, just lack of good modeling example, this book is really for beginner, Anyway, the mapping tutorials are good.

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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 to... more info