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Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xlv

Part I: Getting Started with 3ds Max 1

Quick Start: Animating a Walking Dinosaur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Walking Dinosaur—Planning the Production .......................................................................3
Setting Up the Scene .............................................................................................................4
Tutorial: Gathering models..........................................................................................4
Tutorial: Adding a ground plane .................................................................................5
Adding Materials and Lights ..................................................................................................6
Tutorial: Enabling mental ray and adding materials .....................................................6
Tutorial: Adding a Sun & Sky system ..........................................................................8
Tutorial: Rendering a preview .....................................................................................8
Animating the Dinosaur ......................................................................................................10
Tutorial: Adding a preset CAT rig..............................................................................10
Tutorial: Creating a walking motion path ..................................................................11
Tutorial: Rendering the final animation .....................................................................13
Summary ............................................................................................................................14
Chapter 1: Exploring the Max Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Learning the Interface Elements ..........................................................................................16
Using the Menus .................................................................................................................18
Using the Toolbars ..............................................................................................................20
Docking and floating toolbars ...................................................................................20
Using tooltips and flyouts ..........................................................................................20
Using the Quick Access toolbar .................................................................................21
Learning the main toolbar .........................................................................................21
Using the Ribbon ......................................................................................................24
Using the Viewports ............................................................................................................25
Using the Command Panel ..................................................................................................25
Working with rollouts ...............................................................................................26
Increasing the Command Panel’s width .....................................................................27
Tutorial: Rearranging the interface for lefties .............................................................28
Using the Lower Interface Bar Controls ...............................................................................29

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