3ds Max 5 For Animators,interior Decorators & Arch

3D Studio MAX 5 provides a cutting edge to the architects and interior designers in terms of creating the animation and walk through effects that can be used in presentations of their designs. They can assign real-time materials and light effects, which gives realistic effect to their design. Being one of the best animation software, it will be shortly introduced in the courses of the major Architecture and Interior Designing institutes.


Table of contents :
Chapter 1: Overview of 3ds max 5
Chapter 2: Creating a Scene
Chapter 3: Using Shapes to Create 3D Objects
Chapter 4: Working With Splines
Chapter 5: Creating Lofted Objects
Chapter 6: Creating Objects Using the Deformation Tools
Chapter 7: Using Primitives to Create 3D Objects
Chapter 8: Creating and Modifying Primitive Objects
Chapter 9: Creating Standard Materials Using the Material Editor
Chapter 10: Creating Mapped Materials Using the Material Editor
Chapter 11: Creating Advanced Materials Using the Material Editor
Chapter 12: Controlling Texture Maps
Chapter 13: Creating a Basic Animation
Chapter 14: Creating a Complex Animation
Chapter 15: Rendering an Animation
Chapter 16: Creating a Walkthrough Animation

Market Description :
· Architects
· Interior Designers

About Author :
Sham Tickoo is a professor of Manufacturing Engineering Technology at Purdue University Calumet. He has been in the education and training since 1981 and joined Purdue University in the year 1987. Since then he has been teaching drafting and design, AutoCAD, AutoLISP, 3ds max, 3ds viz, Mechanical Desktop, Pro/Engineer, Autodesk Inventor, etc.

Prof. Tickoo is also one of the best known authors of CAD/CAM books in the world market. He has authored around 60 books, including the updates, on the latest CAD/CAM technology. He is one of the very few authors in the world whose books are translated and sold in the countries like Italy, China, Philippines, and Russia.

In addition to his academic career, he has also been employed as a design engineering, quality control engineer, software developer, and has also worked as a consultant for a number of companies in US and Canada.

Prof. Tickoo has also developed a software package called "SMLayout" that has been registered by Autodesk Inc. as a third party software product. This software package is currently being used by some companies in Canada, United States and Columbia. SMLayout is written in the AutoLISP programming language. It generates flat layout drawing of some complicated geometric shapes like: transitions, cones, cone-cylinder intersections, sphere-cylinder intersections, and cylinder-cylinder intersections. This software package addresses the needs of steel fabricators and manufacturers of sheet metal products. The programs also provide a dimensioning option for automatic dimensioning of the drawing.