ABSTRACT

**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.

chapter |1 pages

How to use this book

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|30 pages

Modeling

chapter 2|32 pages

Materials and mapping

chapter 3|20 pages

Lighting

chapter 4|12 pages

Shadows

chapter 5|10 pages

Reflections

chapter 6|12 pages

Glass

chapter 7|20 pages

Animation

chapter 8|20 pages

Character animation

chapter 9|16 pages

Rendering

chapter 10|20 pages

Logo treatments

chapter 11|10 pages

Parameter wiring

chapter 12|11 pages

Special effects