Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Part I: Learning the Max Interface.

Quick Start: Creating and Animating a Three-Fingered Gaaboot.

Chapter 1: Finding Your Way—Exploring the Max Interface.

Chapter 2: Seeing It All—Working with the Viewports.

Chapter 3: Saving Your Scene—Working with Files and Xrefs.

Chapter 4: Customizing the Max Interface and Setting Preferences.

Part II: Working with Objects.

Chapter 5: Creating and Editing Primitive Objects.

Chapter 6: Selecting Objects and Setting Object Properties.

Chapter 7: Transforming Objects—Translate, Rotate, and Scale.

Chapter 8: Cloning Objects and Creating Object Arrays.

Chapter 9: Grouping and Linking Objects.

Chapter 10: Working with the Schematic View.

Chapter 11: Introducing Modifiers and Using the Modifier Stack.

Part III: Modeling.

Chapter 12: Modeling Basics and Working with Subobjects.

Chapter 13: Drawing and Editing 2D Splines and Shapes.

Chapter 14: Using Editable Poly Objects.

Chapter 15: Painting Deformations.1

Chapter 16: Working with Mesh Modifiers.

Chapter 17: Surface Modeling with Patches and NURBS.

Chapter 18: Building Compound Objects.

Chapter 19: Creating Particles and Particle Flow.

Part IV: Materials and Maps.

Chapter 20: Exploring the Material Editor.

Chapter 21: Creating Simple Materials.

Chapter 22: Creating Advanced Multi-Layer Materials.

Chapter 23: Adding Material Details with Maps.

Chapter 24: Controlling Mapping Coordinates.

Chapter 25: Creating Baked Textures.

Part V: Cameras and Lighting.

Chatper 26: Working with Cameras.

Chapter 27: Basic Lighting Techniques.

Chapter 28: Advanced Lighting, Light Tracing, and Radiosity.

Part VI: Animation.

Chapter 29: Animation and Keyframe Basics.

Chapter 30: Using Animation Modifiers.

Chapter 31: Wiring Custom Attributes.

Chapter 32: Animating with Constraints and Controllers.

Chapter 33: Using the Expression Controller.

Chapter 34: Working with the Track View.9

Part VII: Character Studio, Rigging, and Inverse Kinematics.

Chapter 35: Creating and Animating Bipeds.

Chapter 36: Using Physique to Add Skin to a Biped.

Chapter 37: Controlling Biped Crowds.

Chapter 38: Manually Rigging a Character.

Chapter 39: Working with Inverse Kinematics.9

Part VIII: Dynamics and reactor.

Chapter 40: Using Space Warps.

Chapter 41: Creating a Dynamic Simulation.

Chapter 42: Animating with reactor.

Part IX: Rendering and mental ray.

Chapter 43: Rendering Basics.

Chapter 44: Using Atmospheric Effects.

Chapter 45: Using Render Elements and Effects.

Chapter 46: Raytracing and mental ray.7

Chapter 47: Network Rendering.

Chapter 48: Using the Video Post Interface.

Part X: MAXScript and Plug-Ins.

Chapter 49: Automating with MAXScript.

Chapter 50: Expanding Max with Third-Party Plug-Ins.

Appendix A: What’s New with Max 7.1

Appendix B: Installing and Configuring 3ds max 7.

Appendix C: Max Keyboard Shortcuts.

Appendix D: What’s on the CD-ROM.

Index.

End-User License Agreement.