The book will be updated for the newest rev of the software: 3ds Max XXXX (under NDA).<BR id="CRLF"><BR id="CRLF">**WE ARE BRINGING THE LEVEL UP FROM BEG/INTERMED to INTERMED with higher-end cheats and coverage. Some additional animation and rendering cheats. Also the CD will include Camtasia movies of each chapter.<BR id="CRLF"><BR id="CRLF"> -- <BR id="CRLF"><BR id="CRLF">UPDATES FOR THIS EDITION:<BR id="CRLF">High-end techniques:<BR id="CRLF"> <BR id="CRLF">More cheats geared toward realism and games.<BR id="CRLF"> <BR id="CRLF"> -- Game-centered cheats<BR id="CRLF"> -- Normal maps -- Realistic bumps<BR id="CRLF"> -- Subsurface scattering -- Realistic skin and marble<BR id="CRLF"> -- HDRI -- Use of images in conjunction with lighting to make realistic lighting in scenes. This technique is tricky, but the results are astounding.<BR id="CRLF"> -- More on mental ray -- Sky, Sun, portals<BR id="CRLF"> -- MAXScript basics and cheats<BR id="CRLF"> -- Hair/fur -- both for hair/fur and grass/vegetation<BR id="CRLF"> <BR id="CRLF">NEW DVD Content:<BR id="CRLF"> <BR id="CRLF">Camtasia MOVIES where Michele will show some of the trickier techniques.<BR id="CRLF">All the techniques above -- 5 or 6 movies<BR id="CRLF">Skinning -- 2 movies<BR id="CRLF">Character animation -- 3 movies<BR id="CRLF">Controllers -- 2 movies<BR id="CRLF"> -- <BR id="CRLF"><BR id="CRLF">Introduction<BR id="CRLF">1 Modeling<BR id="CRLF">2 Materials and mapping<BR id="CRLF">3 Lighting<BR id="CRLF">4 Shadows<BR id="CRLF">5 Reflections<BR id="CRLF">6 Glass<BR id="CRLF">7 Animation<BR id="CRLF">8 Character animation<BR id="CRLF">9 Rendering<BR id="CRLF">10 Logo treatments<BR id="CRLF">11 Parameter wiring<BR id="CRLF">12 Appendices: Challenges, CD files
