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Summary: Good refeerence, bad practice...
Review: A nice reference material for Max, if you have a general knowledge of it, and also the patience to thumb through the rather large volume. DO NOT buy this book if you are interested in tutorials, as the ones included are less than complete. A good example would be the tutorial for blowing up a planet... You can get the effect, but it neglects mentioning that you need a visibility key or alternate way to get certain objects to vanish at the appropriate time.A nice effort, and it has it's uses, but I would not recommend this as a learning volume.
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Summary: Good refeerence, bad practice...
Review: A nice reference material for Max, if you have a general knowledge of it, and also the patience to thumb through the rather large volume. DO NOT buy this book if you are interested in tutorials, as the ones included are less than complete. A good example would be the tutorial for blowing up a planet... You can get the effect, but it neglects mentioning that you need a visibility key or alternate way to get certain objects to vanish at the appropriate time. A nice effort, and it has it's uses, but I would not recommend this as a learning volume.
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Summary: befuddling tutorials, missing steps
Review: disorganized, doesn't teach things in logical progression or any semblance of order. Doesn't explain steps in required detail to actually follow with. Jumps around illogically, assuming you already know things that haven't been covered yet. Unfortunately, despite being copyright 2000, doesn't cover release 3.1 either.
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Summary: Learning 3d studio max R3
Review: Hello I am from Romania. I need to learn very well 3D Studio Max. Every comand, everything about it. You recomand me this book? What very complete book you recomand otherwize? Please send me an answer and the modality if ordering one book taking in consideration that I am from Romania - East Europe. Best regards, Celia
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Summary: Learning 3d studio max R3
Review: Hello I am from Romania. I need to learn very well 3D Studio Max. Every comand, everything about it. You recomand me this book? What very complete book you recomand otherwize? Please send me an answer and the modality if ordering one book taking in consideration that I am from Romania - East Europe. Best regards, Celia
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Summary: Splendid reference-book
Review: I believe, as other has stated, that this is a very good reference-book and suitable for people that are already working with 3DMAX. The use I've had for this book clearly exeeds my expectations, but I don't recomend this book as sole material when learning from scratch.
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Summary: Not For Newbies
Review: I bought this book believing in all the positive reviews and with the hopes of improving my skills in 3D modeling and animation as necessary for my job. While the book does tell plenty about WHAT 3D Max can do, it falls short of explaining EXACTLY HOW to perform many things. Without knowing exact semantics, it is very difficult to find explanations of specific topics. With minimal classroom training under my belt, I find this book worthless in helping me to learn more, without first knowing how to exactly phrase what I am attempting to learn. I now need to buy a 'Dummies' type of book for cross-referencing and for learning the simplest of modeling and animation semantics and techniques so that I can use this book to learn more.
Great book for the classroom, bad book for those 'home schooling.'
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Summary: Great book---Very helpful---Bad plug-ins
Review: I recently got this book and it's been great. The beginning, though, I had to skip through because it was putting me asleep. I also skipped the beginning partyly because I was overwhelmed by the 1000+ pages that I had in my hands. I finally got to the part with the tutorials. It was great since I was a beginner and all. The tutorials were easy, sometimes too easy, but they showed very good examples of how to use different parts of Max. I got on the cd-rom that was included and I saw tons of 3d models that I can use for Max. Then, I got to the plug-ins and installed them. I was so excited to see what all of them do and I started up Max and I'm hit with all these errors. I pressed OK on all of them and Max finally started up. I found a couple that actually work including Balls & Sticks. I think that it is wrong to include Max R2 plug-ins with a R3 book. The great thing about this book is that they have the whole thing on the CD complete with color pictures instead of the black and white that are in the book. Further, they have chapter example files that are the actual scenes that you are looking at in the pictures and you can compare scenes and see what you might have done wrong. This book taught me enough to do a lot of stuff on my own in just a few chapters. This book is good for beginners, intermediate, and advanced users alike. This book flows along nicely for beginners especially, making the scenes gradually more complex. However, I don't think that this should be the only book you read on 3d Studio Max.
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Summary: 3d studio max r3 bible
Review: I think this book is first rate. I have two other books on same and they are basically firewood. Although there is some merit to the other reviews with respect to the tutorials in "Bible", the key is having a rudimentary knowledge of max prior to reading this book, or having another reference on hand. Let's face it, this is a complex program and the fact that "bible" runs the gamut on topics is extraordinarily helpful.
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Summary: 3d studio max r3 bible
Review: I think this book is first rate. I have two other books on same and they are basically firewood. Although there is some merit to the other reviews with respect to the tutorials in "Bible", the key is having a rudimentary knowledge of max prior to reading this book, or having another reference on hand. Let's face it, this is a complex program and the fact that "bible" runs the gamut on topics is extraordinarily helpful.
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