Terry G., Barry G.

and Ross present

3ds MAX Seminar

How to acquire a copy from Autodesk Student Community: 1) Have your teams main contact with Autodesk register your team and email you the information to register. 2) Follow the information and register. This will provide you with an account that allows you to download the software. 3) After downloading the software, install it, and when you are done, register the product to get an activation key. When running 3ds Max, it will ask you whether you want to run the product or activate the product. 4) After activating your product, you will be free to use it.

Important Things to Remember

The only real way to get better at 3ds Max is experience. Utilize all the viewports when working on an animation. Save your work every so often; you never know what could happen. Save iterations of your work when ever you make a big change.
Click the 3ds Max symbol in the upper right hand corner, go to Save As, and click the + symbol.

texturing

Ambient color

Specular settings

Texture Mapping

texturing

Modeling

The modifier stack

Modifiers List/ Other Tools

Modifiers
Edit Poly Mirror Skin SmoothMesh

Other tools
Biped Object Compound Objects
Boolean/ ProBoolean

Lights Cameras IK Solver

Bipeds

IK Solvers

Edit Poly

Animating

Key Framing

Path Constrain

Resources
There are plenty of resources for you to utilize. Youtube alone has plenty of tutorials to teach you about various techniques. There are many guidebooks out there to learn. There is one produced by Autodesk, but there are other options as well.