(Hope Electronics) 3ds Max 8 Complete Self-Learning Manual (Includes Disc)

Author: Wang Kewei, Yang Fan
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Publish Date: 2006-06-26
Features: This is a guidebook dedicated to introducing the basic knowledge, fundamental operations, and applications of 3ds Max 8. The book is divided into 6 parts, including 18 chapters. Chapters 1–14 begin by introducing the 3ds Max 8 interface, supported by numerous practical examples, and provide detailed explanations of scene modeling, materials and textures, lighting, animation creation, kinematics, dynamics systems, environmental effects, and VideoPost video post-processing techniques. Chapters 15–18 comprehensively apply the foundational knowledge learned earlier through 4 large-scale examples. The content is easy to understand and follows a step-by-step teaching approach that combines theory and practice, aiming to help readers learn 3ds Max 8 as comprehensively as possible. This book is suitable for beginners, advanced users with some experience, university students and teachers in related fields, as well as video editors and trainees in social training programs. The accompanying CD-ROM contains material files for some of the examples in the book.