[B]3D Studio Max...[/B] My favorite program to create (anything). Photo realistic renderings of anything you can possibly imagine, and "animate' thereafter.

Trying to figure out how this blog works.

It runs backwards. To begin to understand this blog as it is set up now. You have to go to the end of page 2 to begin!!

Somehow I will try and figure out how to make this work properly.

Pitdog; a person I know in Massachusetts; asked me to make him a kewl logo. This is what I came up with.

Text; that is mapped onto text!

[IMG]http://majikimaje.com/CityData/max/Max_Pit2.jpg[/IMG]

This is a program from hell. I read & re-read the 250 pages of 'theory' of how this part of a program inside of 3dsmax works. I was lost for many months. Now in a matter of minutes I can explain this to you without any of the theory behind it. Results are all that count. Theory you can learn later.

How to access the material editor. Click on the icon as shown. Newer versions of max might have a different icon and it might be in a different place on the tool bar menu.
On the...

3 objects now exist in this scene.

Table Top

Board

P_surface

Now it is time to add materials to this scene in this incredibly complicated manner.

[IMG]http://majikimaje.com/CityData//800/007.jpg[/IMG]