Inside 3D Studio MAX 3

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Summary: Lacking Textures
Review: As I turn to the back cover of my copy... I see... Here's exactly what the CD includes: -Over a hundred sample files, maps, and textures from the examples in the book- so you can copy and paste files into your projects instead of starting from scratch

I quickly noticed that this CD does NOT have ANY textures or maps.

-A library of Web and presentation graphics to help you enhance your 3d studio max projects and presentations

-Hey, it has a library... anything ranging from a naked kid in a tub to a little girl standing next to a door... how could that POSSIBLY help my 3d studio projects/presentations?

-A library of over 200 3D studio max plug ins, scripts, and effects to enhance and enrich the way you use MAX.

-WHAT? There is not one single plug in on this whole CD...

The only thing that I didn't mention about this cd is that it comes with some links to vendors of plugins... REAL helpful... I could just look at the resource guide that ships with 3ds max... It's a good book, but I feel that it loses 4 stars due to the fact of the outright LYING about the cd. I personally would pay for the book without the cd, Its a great reference, but when I noticed that it came with a cd, that sweetened the deal; so I picked up a copy. You really dont want this if youre looking for textures, materials, or anything helpful from this useless piece of plastic.

Rating:
Summary: Lacking Textures
Review: As I turn to the back cover of my copy... I see... Here's exactly what the CD includes: -Over a hundred sample files, maps, and textures from the examples in the book- so you can copy and paste files into your projects instead of starting from scratch

I quickly noticed that this CD does NOT have ANY textures or maps.

-A library of Web and presentation graphics to help you enhance your 3d studio max projects and presentations

-Hey, it has a library... anything ranging from a naked kid in a tub to a little girl standing next to a door... how could that POSSIBLY help my 3d studio projects/presentations?

-A library of over 200 3D studio max plug ins, scripts, and effects to enhance and enrich the way you use MAX.

-WHAT? There is not one single plug in on this whole CD...

The only thing that I didn't mention about this cd is that it comes with some links to vendors of plugins... REAL helpful... I could just look at the resource guide that ships with 3ds max... It's a good book, but I feel that it loses 4 stars due to the fact of the outright LYING about the cd. I personally would pay for the book without the cd, Its a great reference, but when I noticed that it came with a cd, that sweetened the deal; so I picked up a copy. You really dont want this if youre looking for textures, materials, or anything helpful from this useless piece of plastic.

Rating:
Summary: Sad, just sad.
Review: Hi 2 all the people who like max 3d well i know that this book as some bad reviews but i bought it anyway acording to my teacher in my 3dmax class and i have to say its preety good book it teaches u almost anything u want to know in max 3 it gots some good tutorials also and the cd is preety good with LOTS of plugins maps movies and lots of max files well i liked this book hope u will like it 2 BYE

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Summary: Inside 3d studio max 3
Review: i am writing this reveiw because i feel i need to warn peaple that this book is not good reading at first i thought it was my intelagence but no this book has been writen in sutch a way that you have to guess what the author is thinking for example the first lofting exersize not one of my freinds new what was going on and had to try and guess the procedure and failed then its starts going on about subjects it thinks you allready know if that was the case you would not need to buy the book. All in all this is a badly writen book and very confuseing not for the absolute begginer

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Summary: Very good as a reference book
Review: I bought this book back in 2000 and only recently began really learning MAX (which is currently in version 7 !).
I have another 2 books and I also had the opportunity to read the MAX 6 bible (which is quite a disappointing one).
I can tell you this one is very good as an informational resource. It delves into many subjects that other (even newer) books , skipped.
I take this book to read when I need to fill in some blanks and find it very deep and very well written, 10-12 professionals took the time to write chapters so every chapter is written by an expert in his field.


Rating:
Summary: Way below par
Review: I stepped into this book knowing VERY little about 3dsmax and 3D modelling in general. The book is very unfocused. It starts to explain something like modifying a spline, but doesn't go into detail when they tell you to lock the vertices to modify them all at once. It's like the author has a severe case of ADD. Then again, it was written by--how many?--eight authors? And at around 1300 pages, it's just TOO big. This book is the perfect example of "too many cooks in the kitchen."

This may serve as a somewhat decent reference, but beginners stay away. I'm going to try something else instead..

Rating:
Summary: Way below par
Review: I stepped into this book knowing VERY little about 3dsmax and 3D modelling in general. The book is very unfocused. It starts to explain something like modifying a spline, but doesn't go into detail when they tell you to lock the vertices to modify them all at once. It's like the author has a severe case of ADD. Then again, it was written by--how many?--eight authors? And at around 1300 pages, it's just TOO big. This book is the perfect example of "too many cooks in the kitchen."

This may serve as a somewhat decent reference, but beginners stay away. I'm going to try something else instead..

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Summary: Extremely Helpful Book
Review: This book, which I have read off of a friend and have yet to buy a copy of my own, is the perfect way for the intelligent reader to learn the ways of such an awesome program It gets 5 Stars from myself and several other people that I know of. It is becase of this book that I have started my own business.

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Summary: Big Great Book!
Review: well, ive been a max user for a couple of years, learning from tutorials on the internet and of course from my own experience on the software. its been for awhile that im lookin for a very concise reference book (not really a tutorial stuff since ive been modeling already organic forms) inorder for me to get more of what the software is capable of, and i found that this book (which wont really tell the best techniques) gives more details on its capabilities and the functions explaining the inside stuff of max. Well if ur looking for a tutorial, then this book is definetly not for u...its a good book to read and a best reference material if you want to know whats really inside 3d max 3..(just a reminder:its not a tutorial book) MABUHI ANG SUGBU!

Rating:
Summary: Sad, just sad.
Review: Well, they wanted to make a really BIG book, they did it. But this don't mean this is a great book for everybody. For my, this was really just a expense of money. The organization of the book is really confusing, too much text, I got bored before learning things they could explain in a few words. Anyway the book have extensive contents and cover almost everithing of the software.

I still thinking that Visual Quickstart Guide for 3D Studio Max (sorry for writing the name of the book here but think it will be usefull for other beginners like me)its great and hopes find another simple and nice to read and good in teaching book like this one.

Sorry for the english.