This easy to install electronic book contains 39 step-by-step tutorials for 3D Studio MAX Release 3 covering: * 3D Studio MAX User Interface
* Creating and Placing Objects with Precision
* How Light, Color and Shadow in MAX Differ from Light, Color and Shadow in the Real World
* Assigning Materials to Objects and Images to Lights
* Creating Metal, Wire and Plastic Materials
* Making Materials from Images
* Creating and Rendering Mirrored Materials
* Controlling Materials with Mapping Coordinates
* Modeling with Modifiers
* Creating a Low Polygon Car
* Working with 2D Shapes
* Creating Jewel Materials
* Lofting Complex Objects
* Working with Particle Systems
* Creating 3D Trees
* NURBS Fundamentals
* Trimming NURBS Surfaces
* Simple Human Figure Modeling
* Simple Character Animation (Forward Kinematics)
* Introduction to Inverse Kinematics
* Animating Links
* Volume Light Techniques
* Introduction to Compositing in Video Post
This training CD delivers the standard Autodesk Learning Assistance browser and takes just minutes to install. This product contains no animation or audio components, which means it runs quickly on standard Windows workstations, and can be conveniently used as a training and comprehensive reference tool even by employees in busy office environments and and students in computer labs.
Each tutorial delivers between one and three hours of hands-on instruction. The CD delivers more than fifty hours of training and 517 full size, full color illustrations.
The system requirements for this CD are: Win 98, NT, 2000, 32mb of RAM, 100 MB of disk space, and the 3D Studio MAX 3 software.
If you are looking for comprehensive, hands-on, step-by-step instruction in 3D Studio MAX 3, then this is the product for you. Its projects can be undertaken in any order and can be printed for offline use. Bookmark pages for easy reference. Use its search tools to find tutorials covering topics of particular interest.
