Ray Dream Studio 5 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) - Softcover

Kahn, Richard G.; Persidsky, Andre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201696711 ISBN 13: 9780201696714

Publisher: Peachpit Pr, 1998

Synopsis

Ray Dream Studio is one of the most popular 3D design tools on the market today. This guide, which covers Ray Dream Designer and Ray Dream Animator, leads the beginning student step by step through creating 3D objects, using shaders to apply materials to them, then setting up and lighting a scene. Additional chapters walk the reader through animating the image for a Web page, video output, or multimedia. Cover Title .

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Review

This beginner's guide to Ray Dream Studio 5 for Windows and Macintosh helps you learn the 3-D-modeling package quite quickly. The book takes you through the whole program, step by step, starting with the basic interface and navigational elements such as modeling tools, lights, cameras, rendering, and the perspective window. Next you delve into the 3-D modeling tools, using primitives and understanding and mastering the Free Form Modeler, points and axes, and the Mesh Form Modeler. The authors explain how to put the finishing touches on your models by applying shaders, 3-D paint, deformers, lighting effects, camera effects, and animation actions and behaviors. Finally, they teach you how to render still images and movies. The authors explain each task thoroughly, yet each task is basically independent of others, so you can jump around to various parts of the book as you wish. This is a great tool if you're short on time and want to learn Ray Dream as quickly as possible. An appendix offers keyboard shortcuts. --Kathleen Caster

From the Publisher

The Ray Dream 5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide is the ideal companion for users in both beginners and professional users. The book, which covers Ray Dream Designer and Ray Dream Animator, leads the beginning student step by step through creating 3D objects, using shaders to apply materials to them, then setting up and lighting a scene. Additional chapters walk the reader through animating the image for a Web page, video output, or multimedia. The Ray Dream 5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide will be especially useful for users upgrading from version 4-the book will follow close on the heels of the release of version 5 and will take special care to point out what's new. Professional artists will also want to keep a copy handy as a quick reference guide.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peachpit Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0201696711
• ISBN 13: 9780201696714
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304