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For creative people
There are lot of beginners who love to start doing 3D animations and stuff. So i think this book and CDs will help them a lot to learn by themself.

A very good start
this is an excellent beginning for those interested in creating wonders with 3d studio max version 3the only reason I gave only 4 stars isbecause of the lack of sufficient hard copydocumentationforoffcomputer reading) ... Read more

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Help fast
I've really got to recomend this book.I've been using Max for alittle over a year now, and I got this book about 5 months ago from a Discreet regional representative at a SkillsUSA competition on Max which I won.I used it all summer, following the course it set out for me, and eventually it helped me come in 8th in the nation at the SkillsUSA nation championships in Max.This book's easy to follow layout and chapter setup is highly helpful for someone who wants to really get into the insides of modeling in Max.It also covers animation and texturing to a good degree.If you want to learn max, I highly recomend this book. ... Read more

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Editorial Review

The second volume of the most authoritative guide to 3D Studio MAX 2, this guide focuses on the best ways to create sophisticated models and materials. The first part of the book is about modeling and teaches you basic modeling concepts such as polygonal, patch, and Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS) modeling, and how to work with curves and primitives. Next you learn how to create models for architectural, industrial, and mechanical design purposes. The authors also discuss how to model for real-time games, virtual reality, and the Web, and how to create high-detail, cinematic output and realistic character models. The second part of the book is about materials: you learn about the types of shaders, reflection and refraction concepts, ray tracing, and rendering, and then move on to design naturally occurring, man-made, fictional, special-effects, and animated materials. You also use the program for creating 2-D maps, which is helpful if you don't have an image editor. The third part of the book guides you through rendering effects, teaching you how to work with cameras, lights, glows, lens flares, highlights, and focal effects.Read more

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The publisher, authors and editors should be ashamed.
It doesn't appear anyone took time to review the book before publication. It has incomplete lessons, the wrong illustration with the wrong lesson, it lacks continuity, etc., etc... A wealth of information ruined by errata
The authors are very knowledgeable and cover lots of ground, with the emphasis more on materials than modeling.NURBS once more gets short thrift (will no one give it an in-depth treatment?), focusing on the simplecreation of lofts, lathes, etc., with few insights into how to work detailsinto these objects once created.The book is riddled with typos,missing steps, erroneous figures or files, etc.The publisher's Web siteprovides tech-support for this and other books, and through them I receivedan errata file written by one of the authors.While this is of some use,it barely scratches the surface of what is wrong with this book, and theerrata itself contains many mistakes.It was reckless andunprofessional of the authors to hand in so many untested examples, dittoof the publisher in not performing a proper copy-edit, and ditto again forboth to foist the mess on unsuspecting customers.If they team up againfor a book on the newly-released 3D Studio MAX 3, check for reviews beforebuying, and it might not be a bad idea to contact the publisher and askwhat steps they have taken to avoid the mistakes made here.

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