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Summary: Gmax is worthless, much better alternatives out there!
Review: I can't believe Discreet put their name on this product. Only to the most novice might this software appear amazing but it is fairly worthless. I have taught 3d animation to high school students for the past 8 years using a varaity of free 3d packages and thought...wow...free from Discreet!!! It's crap! I bought the book, its crap! There is no user base for the software, no support, very little feedback from the forums. Don't bother. I had hopes, bought the book, it gives some basics about modeling in the program bit gives no help with integrating the models into a game environment. I was able to get Static Meshes into UT2003 and a few others but that was about it. Sure, you can box model a character and add a bone structure...but then how do you get it into a game? No answer to be found! The only reason I gave it the time of day I did was because the Admin at my school didn't want to cough up the cash for a proper 3d program. Hah, after showing them what the free stuff COULDN'T do, they did!!!! If you are starting out, maybe the free version of Softimage that comes with HL2 will be better, it can't be worse. I would be emabarassed if I were Discreet. Steve
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Summary: Gmax is worthless, much better alternatives out there!
Review: I had tried doing some work on my own, but the installation instructions for gmax and tutorials that already exist are not very good. This book fixed everything for me!!!!!
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Summary: Very Cool!
Review: I had tried doing some work on my own, but the installation instructions for gmax and tutorials that already exist are not very good. This book fixed everything for me!!!!!
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Summary: Good intro on Modding and Installation, short on tutorial
Review: This book give a good introduction on game modding for Quake, Flight Simulator using gmax and a very thorough installation procedure. But in many cases, this book only refer to the URL instead of providing the installation file on the CDROM. There are only a few tutorial provided about the gmax itself and there are a lot more and better tutorial found on the net.
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Summary: Too Basic
Review: This book is more on general modding of software than actually using gmax. This book spends too much time showing you how to install and update the games that support gmax, when it could be showing you how to use gmax itself. It covers very very basic aspects of gmax, then spends a lot of time talking about the individual games. The topics covered about the individual games are mostly how to install and update the game and whatever additional resources that are provided by the game developers, and are not really valuable. This book will not teach you anything about modeling or animating in gmax, it will only expose you to the concept of using gmax to edit various games, and give you some ideas of what can be edited in each game. I recommend The gmax Bible, which is a much richer book for learning gmax modeling and animation techniques, and how to use them in modifying games. This is a very very basic book, and your time would be better spent reading a few tutorials off the net than purchasing this book. You can't really use it as a printed reference for anything either.
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