Ray Dream 5 for Windows and Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guides) Book

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 CasterRead More