3ds Max 4 Magic3ds Max 4 Magic follows the same project-based pedagogy that has made previous Magic titles a success. The primary goals are to present changes in functionality, best practices, and inspirational effects. Each project is 10 to15 pages in length and provides instruction as well as suggestions for enhancing or modifying the project/effect. Each page is designed in a 3-column format with step-by-step instructions on the left and corresponding graphics (or code) in the middle. The third column is used to provide additional tips and tricks. Any effect, technique, or tip can easily be customized to fit the readers' |
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3D Studio MAX 3ds max accompanying CD-ROM Add Time Tag Animate button Animation Graph Editors Attenuation Basic Parameters bitmap Blend bubbles Bump Bump map Camera01 Click clone Cloud Displacement Create Modifiers Animation dialog Diffuse Color displacement map drag droid Dummy Edit Editors Rendering Customize effect Emitter Falloff Flex following values gizmo Go to frame Gradient Ramp Graph Editors Rendering Group Views Create Hide INVERSE KINEMATICS jellyfish Link Marcus Richardson Mask Material Editor MaxScript menu mesh Modifier List Modifiers Animation Graph motion move Name Noise map NON-PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING Note NURBS object Opacity option panel Parameters rollout particle system Path Photoshop plane Position Right-click Rotation script Sean Bonney Select set the following setup Shadow Shadow Map slider slot space warp Specular Highlights Specular Level sphere spinner spline sub-object surface tentacles texture Tools Group Views Top viewport Track View tutorial Type Unhide Vertex Volume Light wave