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Title: 3ds max 5 for Dummies by Shamms Mortier, Shamms Mortier ISBN: 0-7645-1676-0 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Book for 3DS Max Dummies like me.
Comment: This is a great book for getting started in 3DS Max 5. I am almost finished with it and have found it to be a great help in learning the program. Some areas could be explained perhaps a bit better, but I was able to follow those areas and the rest of the book fairly easily.
This book is not for the advanced but is for those with very little experience in the program....like DUMMIES.
A great place to start if you want to learn this program.
Rating: 1
Summary: Max 5 for Dummies -- Do You Really Want This Book?
Comment: Caution, reader. Caution.
Buying this book means you have absolutely no knowledge of 3ds Max or any knowledge in 3D whatsoever. The author spends a lot of time spelling out what a polygon is, what normals are, etc. If you already know this stuff, get another book. Another thing to be aware of is the chapter's sub-heading are often goofy and have no relation whatsoever to the content of that section; this often makes scanning the pages a little difficult. Humor is good, but I'm not sure I want to go there with such a complicated program.
Finally, the lessons here certainly get you on your way, but this is by no means a definitive guide on workflow and procedures. The tutorials are a bit shallow at best. If you know anything at all about Max or 3D in general, skip this book.
Rating: 3
Summary: 3ds max 5 for Dummies leaves much room for improvement
Comment: MY BACKGROUND: I'm a Project Manager for former division of EDS and like to DirectX program for fun. I previously had never touched any version of 3ds max/Direct Studio (and had never touched any equivalent software for creating 3-d objects).
MY REVIEW: Though this book has been very useful in helping me learn 3ds max 5, too often this book starts listing functions with no examples on how to use them. One example of this is chapter 14 in the NURBS surfaces section and beyond. There are over 40 functions listed with descriptions but there is NOT EVEN ONE example on using them.
Also at times I ended up consulting the 3ds-max-5 user reference to understand how to use a function that they allegedly had step-by-step instructions for; I'd then discover that they left out a very IMPORTANT step.
The biggest benefit of this book is that it DOES come with 3ds max 5 for a 30 day trial for a relatively inexpensive price; adding the fact that there are not many 3ds max 5 books out there, I rated this a 3 since, I must admit, that I've come a long way in learning how to use 3ds max 5, even though I needed to consult the 3ds-max user-reference a little more often than I should have.
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Title: 3ds max 5 Fundamentals by Ted Boardman ISBN: 0735713189 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 15 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: 3ds max 5 Bible by Kelly L. Murdock, Kelly L. Murdock ISBN: 0764537032 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 21 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Modeling a Character in 3DS Max by Paul Steed ISBN: 1556228155 Publisher: Wordware Publishing Pub. Date: 30 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: 3ds max 6 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, First Edition by Michele Matossian ISBN: 073571391X Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 10 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: 3ds Max 5 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide by Michele Matossian ISBN: 0321180879 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 17 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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