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Title: Rhino NURBS 3D Modeling by Margaret Becker, Pascal Golay, Robert McNeel ISBN: 0-7357-0925-4 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Textbook Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99

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Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (9 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Rhino 3D: the best manual
Comment: I think that this book was great help for any beginner. I started with previous of Autocad and 3D Studio Max, so this book was easy to learn from. Easy to follow tutorials helped as well as an understanding of basic design. This book functions twofold as manual and tutorial. To those that wrote reviews saying it was difficult, like anything else in life understanding and knowledge doesn't fall in you laps. Trust me, only a fool with no patience couldn't understand this book. EASY. I look forward to a second edition that deals with more advanced modelling techniques and features of this great program.

Rating: 1
Summary: dont buy this
Comment: This book is a joke, it shows hundreds of pages of worthless technical information with no reference to any practical modeling. Margaret should read 3d studio workshop by Duane Loose to see how a tutorial should be written. Save your cash.

Rating: 2
Summary: Unable to use Rhino because of this book.
Comment: The title to this review says it all. I basically have had to "teach" myself in order to learn ANYTHING in Rhino. This book (which I recieved as a gift, THANK GOODNESS because if I had paid for it I would have felt the hole in my wallet) starts out ok in the first few chapters but then falls short dramatically of the intended goal. Later on it crudely shows you how to create a poorly designed figure of a boy and a skateboard that's laughably nothing more than just basic shapes slapped together. As for the section on creating a detailed human face/head from a plaster caste, let's be real here - HOW many people actually a)own a Microscribe digitizing tool at home, and b)have the time to smother a friend in Plaster to create a caste for digitizing a face? If this book had been set up properly it would have taught people how to create the face straight in Rhino with Nurbs or whatever else (again I'm lacking the proper terminology since this book has failed to even teach me THAT, so forgive me if I use the wrong terms) like other books teach people in HALF the time it would take to go through the digitizing process which seems more awkward than anything else.

Now I'm giving this book 2 stars but again it's merely because it DID help me get a knowledge of what the tools where for in the tool bars - but rest assured that's NOTHING you couldn't get from the Manuals. In short: The manuals which are vague to begin with (to this DAY I've yet to find someone who can admit to knowing how to apply the UV coordinates and texture map an object in Rhino entirely - and I've even asked this of the PRO's in the forums with no answer) are BETTER than this book and that's not saying much in it's defense.

Sorry to the author but this should have been written better instead of rushed to market. Now if we can get a RHINO BIBLE from the people that brought us the 3DS Max 4 bible...now ya talking!! :)

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