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(More customer reviews)I've played around with 3ds max for a few years but never really got to grips with it until now.
3ds Max Modelling for Games has taught me more in a month than every other book and DVD I've wasted my money on all together.
The book is extremely simple to begin with, taking you through modelling a box, step by step.
Now I thought that this was a joke initially until I realised that the tutorial was not about modelling a box, but about setting 3ds max up properly with automatic backups, units, scale and the core principles of mapping and unwrapping textures. It even shows how to get a great looking render out of the simplest of models - something I had struggled with in the past.
The book moves on teaching more complex modelling techniques, more complex mapping and even how to take your own photographs and turn them into great looking texture maps - I didn't expect a number of great Photoshop lessons in a 3ds Max book.
Again the tutorials get more complex and cover normal mapping, dirt maps, ambient occlusion, scratch maps, specular maps, and complex lighting and rendering.
But the best thing about the book is that all of the tutorials grow all fit together as pieces of the final finished scene which is an abandoned warehouse. The models, the vehicle, the character - everything all fits together to make a scene with lots of rendering advice to put a good portfolio together.
Finally the book ends with some of the best advice I've ever seen on putting a portfolio together and how to act in an interview.
I haven't been able to put this book down since I got hold of it and I'm now looking forward to the massive character modelling tutorial.
5 stars from me.
p.s. The book has an accompanying website with extra content promised too.
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