Customer Reviews

3ds max 6 Bible

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This huge 1255 page book is truly Bible sized as is needed to describe such a massive software system. By any standard ‘max’ is massive. It is, of course, a graphics software package capable of the most advanced graphical images.

Books on software systems have to balance between being a reference book with a structure that makes it easy to find what you seek. Or the book can be a tutorial that leads the reader along a path intended to get him using the software quickly. This book draws an interesting balance between the two. There is basically a reference book structure, but imposed within it are numerous tutorials on building particular images. This approach works well for me, when I'm looking for something specific, lighting for instance, I can find it. Or, if it's a brand new subject the tutorials lead through getting started to produce something useful. Then the reference like descriptions lead on to the more specific details needed for the particular project.

This is the fourth edition of this book. This has given the author time to work out the details the way he wants them, to take into account comments made on the previous editions requesting more information about specific points, and of course to completely cover the new features in ‘max 6’.

I've been looking for the book that contains full information about this program and i think i've found it. this book is NOT for people who didnt work on 3DS MAX 6 befor because it doesnt mention the basic concipts. How ever, this book claims the best out of me and i finally found the right resource.

This is a great book. Not a step-by-step guide on how to do stuff, or a tutorial. It is a dictionary where you can find answers for your questions. It's great. A must for every 3ds Max 6 user.

I must agree with the last reviewer. The author's attempt to explain the various techniques are vague. This book is supposed to be directed at all facets of expertise. Where it falls by the wayside is that it assumes you already know where the features of the program are. They tell you to go "here" but don't tell you where "here" is. For those reviewers that have the idea that this type of explaination is satisfactory it's not. The purpose of books like these are to explain things to the most novice of users. If you are unfamiliar with the program I would suggest reading some of the Thompson Learning books or go to the Discreet site and order there Tutorial DVD's. This book contains many tutorials and information but it lacks information for the newbie.

By the title of my review you may be worndering why I rate the book 4 out of 5? 3ds max 6 Bible covers Max very well, there isn't one thing left out, and if your looking for a book on 3ds max 6 this is the best choice. This book, unfortunatly, does not cover Character Studio 4, which usual ships with 3ds max 6. This is the reason for my the 4 star rating.

that books are very dry, and hard to learn from. stick with VIDEO tutorials. there are a TON of them on the net. but yes, seriously, video tutorials are where it's at. nothing is ever left out, you can see where they clicked. and how they got their results EXACTLY!

As a person trying to learn a new program from scratch, this book was not helpful as it should've been. Aside from the MAX interface and toolbar explanations, this book did not do much in explaining key functions. I understand one book, no matter how many pages it has, is not enough to explain in detail a complex program like MAX, but this book was just not helpful to me. I found the tutorials that come shipped with the 3ds MAX software to be much more user friendly and in-depth. In fact, I learned how to use the program mostly through the software tutorials than any reference books. If you are familiar with the format of the Wiley "Bibles" and like it, than buy this book. For me, this is my third "Bible" series from Wiley and I have not been satisfied with any one of them.

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this book is for ever use, i have the bible for max 4,5 and i love it, its easy to read and the directions are clear and the book tells you every thing you need. i just ordered max 6 bible and i use max 6,this is going to be the best book you can get, this book makes all the other book look like Crap!! and i mean that i have several book for max 4,5 and the bible is the only one that i tell people to use. if your a teacher you have to get these books for your class you'll thank me later when you see the information you get from using this book.

A huge, boring refence-style tome...
I am not sure if it can be useful in any way.. the tutorials are too
simple or to "mechanical" to be a good learning instrument for the Max newbie, and the theory is very ample but not deep enough to be
useful to the expert. Not recommended unless you are a UI maniac interested in the name of every single button and menu item of the huge Max interface.

If you are a advanced user like myself you will learn very little from this book BUT it is incredibly useful as a reference book because it explains everything within the studio max interface (except max-script). For example it will even explain what the phisical scale roll within the radiosity using interface does in a fair amount of detail. It is also useful in explaining the different cahnges within the MAX interface. It is not really usefull however in learning complex modeling techniques and suchlike. The tutorials are also just too easy (e.g. Modelling a shell) and will not satisfy the advanced user. Very good reference book though