Kelly L. Murdock's Autodesk 3ds Max 2016 Complete Reference Guide

Too many errors. Going through this without discovering blatant errors in the form of bad instructions is like walking through a dense mine filed hoping for the best. I struggled to get out of chapter two without running into error after error after error. Too many to list. The last straw was when I ran into page 62, chapter 2. It instructs the reader to navigate to the Rendering menu, Screen Capture, Capture Still Image to capture a veiwport image. Problem is that there does not exist a Screen Capture menu located within the Rendering menu. The Screen Capture menu is found in the Tools menu instead.Just to think I borrowed mony to buy this shameful book. I've got to return it or I won't sleep! I'm a college graduate with three degrees and multiple IT certifications and been in school/academia for 45 of 54 years and I've never ever read such an awful excuse for a reference guide. I guess it was thrown out there for suckers like me who dared to think that someone actually took the time to put this together. It should be investigated as a crime why thy charged so much for this garbage. Don't be a fool like me, stay away from this book!!!!

You would think that a book that costs over $50.00 and contains over 1200 pages would be a great investment... however, this is not what I found. The book came lose inside an Amazon box and being tossed about by FedEx the thing had bent corners. Then I started to digest its contents and found it hard to follow and poorly written. In trying to do some of the so-called tutorials I was amazed at how confusing the instructions were and not only that, the instructions were continuously wrong. Things like flip it horizontal when it needed flipped vertical, etc., etc.. They provided one file that showed how a covered wagon should look when done and even whoever did the wagon had it wrong. Lettering on one side of the wagon went up over the top of the wagon while the lettering was places lower in its proper place on the other side. Take my advice... find something else to spend your money on. It is my hope that someone will release an edition that has all of the mistakes taken out of it. Oh... let me mention that it leaves out many of the menu items and so on. I can't think of any book that I've ever bought that was such a mess... and I've been around for 72 years!

This book is full of incorrect information. Half of the commands in the tutorials don't exist in 3ds Max 2016. I would never had bought this book if I knew how bad it is.

Very well written and thorough. The thing weighs about 15 lbs! A very good reference book for any Max user.

Excellent book

Amazing book, I can see a lot of effort was put into it, but I can't seem to find the DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT SET, which is mentioned on practically every page, but with no mention on how TO ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD IT. If someone could please help me it would be greatly appreciated. I've been looking for hours but to no prevail.

This book is very useful and very new,there is a little bit difficult.It could be perfect if it sell with 3D Max software together.

First class book. All you need to know.

Great Book, Thank you Kelly,For anyone unable to find the downloadable content, go to the SDC website and under the book version you will find the content to download.

Everything what You need to deeply familiarize with 3ds Max software.