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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Getting Started with 3ds Max | |
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| Quick Start: Laying Siege to the Castle Wall | |
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| Exploring the Max Interface | |
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| Controlling and Configuring the Viewports | |
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| Working with Files, Importing, and Exporting | |
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| Changing Interface Units and Setting Preferences | |
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| Working with Objects | |
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| Creating and Editing Primitive Objects | |
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| Selecting Objects and Setting Object Properties | |
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| Transforming Objects, Pivoting, Aligning, and Snapping | |
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| Cloning Objects and Creating Object Arrays | |
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| Grouping, Linking, and Parenting Objects | |
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| Modeling Basics | |
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| Accessing Subobjects and Using Modeling Helpers | |
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| Introducing Modifiers and Using the Modifier Stack | |
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| Drawing and Editing 2D Splines and Shapes | |
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| Modeling with Polygons | |
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| Using the Graphite Modeling Tools and Painting with Objects | |
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| Materials, Cameras, and Lighting Basics | |
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| Using the Slate Material Editor | |
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| Creating and Applying Standard Materials | |
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| Adding Material Details with Maps | |
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| Creating Compound Materials and Using Material Modifiers | |
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| Configuring and Aiming Cameras | |
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| Using Lights and Basic Lighting Techniques | |
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| Animation and Rendering Basics | |
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| Understanding Animation and Keyframes | |
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| Animating with Constraints and Simple Controllers | |
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| Rendering a Scene and Enabling Quicksilver | |
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| Rendering Non-Photorealistic Effects | |
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| Advanced Modeling | |
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| Building Complex Scenes with Containers, XRefs, and the Schematic View | |
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| Deforming Surfaces and Using the Mesh Modifiers | |
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| Working with Compound Objects | |
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| Working with Solids and Body Objects | |
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| Adding and Styling Hair and Fur, and Using Cloth | |
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| Advanced Materials | |
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| Using Specialized Material Types | |
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| Working with Procedural Substance Textures | |
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| Painting in the Viewport Canvas and Rendering Surface Maps | |
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| Unwrapping UVs and Mapping Textures | |
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| Creating Baked Textures and Normal Maps | |
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| Advanced Animation Techniques | |
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| Using Animation Layers, Modifiers, and Complex Controllers | |
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| Animating with the Expression Controller and Wiring Parameters | |
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| Working with the F-Curve Editor in the Track View | |
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| Working with Characters | |
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| Understanding Rigging, Kinematics, and Working with Bones | |
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| Animating Characters with CAT | |
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| Skinning Characters | |
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| Dynamic Animation | |
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| Creating Particles and Particle Flow | |
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| Using Space Warps | |
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| Simulating Physics-Based Motion with MassFX | |
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| Animating Hair and Cloth | |
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| Advanced Lighting and Rendering | |
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| Working with Advanced Lighting, Light Tracing, and Radiosity | |
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| Using Atmospheric and Render Effects | |
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| Rendering with mental ray and iray | |
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| Batch and Network Rendering | |
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| Compositing with Render Elements and the Video Post Interface | |
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| What's New with 3ds Max 2012 | |
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| What's on the CD-ROM | |
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| Index | |