3Ds Max video course for beginner

                        Autodesk 3ds Max, is a great 3D Studio, And 3D Studio Max is a professional 3D computer graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images. It is developed and produced by Autodesk Media and Entertainment.

 Autodesk 3ds Max is the premier software package for 3D modeling, texturing, and animation, and it has many features specifically designed to assist artists, architects, engineers, and designers in various disciplines in the realization of their projects. It includes a Software Development Kit (SDK), which is used to develop plug-ins that give the program additional functionality. 3ds Max Design is a different installation and, in addition to having all the features of 3ds Max (except for the SDK), 3ds Max Design offers two exclusive tools. The Lighting Analysis tool is used to help meet the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) 8.1 certification standards. The Civil Visualization Extension is a customized version of the Dynamite VSP plug-in for importing design data from AutoCAD Civil 3D or the Bentley MX design tools. In this book, we simply refer to the program as 3ds Max. Autodesk 3ds Max 2013 provides users with cutting-edge rendering technology, easy-to-use materials, improved interoperability with other related design and CAD software, enhancements to modeling and animation tools, and better viewport interactivity than ever before.

System Requirements
This book assumes that you already have Autodesk 3ds Max 2013 and a computer that can properly
run the software. Additionally, you should perform a complete installation of 3ds Max 2013,
including the optional tutorials and plug-ins. Many of the extra and demonstration plug-ins
are not covered in this book; however, you should experiment with them on your own. The following
list shows you the minimum system requirements necessary to run 3ds Max 2013; you
should exceed these values whenever possible for better system performance and stability:

• u Intel Pentium4 1.4GHz or AMD-based equivalent processor with SSE2 technology

• u 2GB of RAM (4GB recommended)
• u 2GB of swap space (4GB recommended)

• u 3GB of free disk space after 3ds Max 2013 software installation
• u Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 or newer

• u Direct3D 10, Direct3D 9, or OpenGL-capable graphics card supporting 1024 768, 32-bit color

• display; 512MB video memory (1GB or higher recommended)

• u DVD-ROM drive for installing from physical media.

• u A three-button mouse with the appropriate driver software

• u Microsoft Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 3 or higher) or Microsoft Windows 7,32-bit or 64-bit

• u Internet connection for web downloads and Autodesk Subscription access Autodesk does not support running 3ds Max 2013 on Windows Me, NT 4.0, 98, or prior versions.

You can fi nd the complete system requirements for 3ds Max 2013 on the Autodesk website, including system requirements for running 3ds Max on Apple Macintosh systems using Boot Camp or Mac virtualization on the Parallels Desktop (www.autodesk.com/3dsmax).
The 3GB of free disk space includes space for the sample files and general workspace for your projects. For later chapters, you may want to install AutoCAD 2010 or newer and Adobe Photoshop CS4 or newer. You can obtain a trial version of Photoshop from the Adobe website. You can also download a 30-day trial version of AutoCAD 2013 from the Autodesk website.These additional software applications are not crucial, but you may fi nd them to be useful companions to 3ds Max 2013.