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How to Cheat in 3ds Max 2010: Get Spectacular Results Fast


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**How to Cheat in 3ds Max - updated for latest rev of Max (under NDA)**Need to get results with 3ds max fast? Why take months to learn every button in 3ds max when you can create great visuals with just a few key tools? Learn to create quick yet stunning special effects, and animated characters with the fastest techniques possible. Need convincing grass, trees, water, shadows? You can use the memory-hogging methods that choke your display and take forever to render, or you can get it done bing-bang with this book. When you need an animated character you can spend days fiddling with polygons, or you can use this book to put it together in minutes and get the entire project done in a day. How to Cheat in 3ds max includes a host of time-saving techniques as well as little-known tools that will make you look like an expert in no time flat. This book is for busy professionals who need to get it done right, but also need it done fast. This rev of the book will have higher-end cheats (for Intermediate users) geared towards greater realism in images, and game-centered cheats. The DVD includes scene files and bitmaps used to illustrate the cheats, also music files, organizational samples, and instructional Camtasia movies of Michele where Michele showing some of the trickier techniques.

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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. --Game-centered cheats--Normal maps - Realistic bumps--Subsurface scattering - Realistic skin and marble--HDRI - Use of images in conjunction with lighting to make realistic lighting in scenes. This technique is tricky, but the results are astounding.--More on mental ray - Sky, Sun, portals--MAXScript basics and cheats--Hair/fur - 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 - 5 or 6 moviesSkinning - 2 moviesCharacter animation - 3 moviesControllers - 2 movies-----------------------------------Introduction1 Modeling2 Materials and mapping3 Lighting4 Shadows5 Reflections6 Glass7 Animation8 Character animation9 Rendering10 Logo treatments11 Parameter wiring12 Appendices: Challenges, CD files

About the Author :
Michele Bousquet is an Autodesk Certified Trainer who has been using 3ds Max since its first release. She has worked as a Senior Technical Writer for Autodesk and has authored more than 20 books on 3ds Max. Michele is currently the Director of Marketing at TurboSquid.com, the largest online marketplace for stock 3D models in the known universe. TurboSquid and Michele were recently featured on CNN's Anderson Cooper's 360 Blog.

Review :
Praise for current version: Max 2009: 'The most visually interactive training tool ever for 3ds MAX. It is visually engaging and sets a new standard for understanding complex concepts. Michele Bousquet Rocks!' - Richard Lapidus, Assistant Professor, 3D Animation, Mechanical Design and Drafting/CAD


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781136137495
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Focal Press
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 1136137491
  • Publisher Date: 10 Sep 2012
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Get Spectacular Results Fast


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