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Essential 3ds max 2008
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Essential 3ds max 2008

by Sean McBride
March 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
445 pages
15h 43m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
Content preview from Essential 3ds max 2008
the AEC Extended section of the drop-down, and are pretty
neat additions to the Max arsenal.
These primitives are not objects that you’d want to use as
a finished product obviously, but they are great tools to move
you in the right direction.
Lights
Lights play an important role when
creating anything in 3D. In fact, with-
out proper lighting it doesn’t matter
what you make or how good you
make it; if it’s not lit properly, your
3D object can look as flat and boring
as a sheet of paper. Lighting is what
gives everything, including the
objects you create in 3D, depth. You
only know that a ball is round
because of the way light bounces off
it, as shown in Figure ...
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ISBN: 9781598220506