The book will be updated for the newest rev of the software: 3ds Max XXXX (under NDA).
**WE ARE BRINGING THE LEVEL UP FROM BEG/INTERMED to INTERMED with higher-end cheats and coverage. Some additional animation and rendering cheats. Also the CD will include Camtasia movies of each chapter.
UPDATES FOR THIS EDITION:
High-end techniques:
More cheats geared toward realism and games.
Realistic skin and marble
Use of images in conjunction with lighting to make realistic lighting in scenes. This technique is tricky, but the results are astounding.
MAXScript basics and cheats
both for hair/fur and grass/vegetation
NEW DVD Content:
Camtasia MOVIES where Michele will show some of the trickier techniques.
All the techniques above
2 movies
Character animation
Introduction
1 Modeling
2 Materials and mapping
3 Lighting
4 Shadows
5 Reflections
6 Glass
7 Animation
8 Character animation
9 Rendering
10 Logo treatments
11 Parameter wiring
12 Appendices: Challenges, CD files
