The best 3DS MAX resource found for level 1 beginers!

[groves]

There are videos explaining the basics of 3DS MAX. this is a great resource for tose who have never used 3DS MAX before.

http://download.autodesk.com/us/3dsmax/skillmoviesv9/

[Morgan Gillespie]

That is a nice find.
I write my own lessons for my students, even wrote an exam. The lessons I wrote go in a similar order.
Basic Navigation (Lesson P) 4 pages
Basic Modeling (Lesson 1) 4 pages
Basic Modifiers (Lesson 2) 4 pages
Basic Keyframing (Lesson 3) 1 page (need to expand)
Basic Materials (Lesson 4) 2 pages (also need to expand, might combine with lesson 7)
Modeling (Lesson 5) video = 20 mins
Particles (Lesson 6) 9 pages
Mapping (Lesson 7) current work in progress

They are free to any team that wants them, just keep in mind I am not a very good writer, yet the kids have learned from them.

After watching the videos the seem to simply scratch the surface. I create a simple scene and lead the kids along explaining what each and every thing does. (I do that a lot more in my later lessons) In the earlier lessons they actually came with homework but this was dropped as checking over all their homework became too much.

I wrote them so they could be followed by anyone.

[groves]

Could you email me these lessons? sl05bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by groves

Could you email me these lessons? sl05bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us

I was also teaching 3ds over the summer and kept a progress report on this thread, my last posts you'll find helpful.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=47925