" gmax Bible covers every detail that a wannabe game designer could need." – Rob Smith, Editor-in-Chief, PC Gamer

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Attacking gmax Hard and Fast; Chapter 1: gmax The Possibilities; Chapter 2: Using the In-Your-Face Interface; Chapter 3: Making a Custom Face, er, Interface; Chapter 4: Getting Files In and Out of gmax; Chapter 5: Choosing Your Poison Selecting Objects; Chapter 6: Cloning, Grouping, and Linking Objects, and Other -ings; Chapter 7: Moving, Rotating, and Scaling Objects Return of the -ings; Chapter 8: Placing gmax on Autopilot with MAXScript; Part II: Building an Empire of Objects; Chapter 9: Beginning with the Basic Building Blocks; Chapter 10: Starting with Simple Splines and Shapes; Chapter 11: Moving On with Marvelous Meshes; Chapter 12: Performing with Perfect Patches; Chapter 13: Continuing with Crazy Compound Objects; Part III: Changing Object Appearance Inside and Out; Chapter 14: Controlled Destruction with Modifiers; Chapter 15: Skeletons Rule: Building with Bones and IK; Chapter 16: Putting on the Ritz with the gmax Material Editor; Part IV: Lights, Camera, Action; Chapter 17: Creating Ambiance and Mood with Lights; Chapter 18: If You Could See What I See Controlling Cameras; Chapter 19: Getting the Prop to Spin Animation Basics; Chapter 20: Graphing Animations with the Track View; Chapter 21: Whoa, Betty! Constraining Motion; Chapter 22: Creating Automatic Actions with Controllers; Part V: Creating Mods with the gmax Game Packs; Chapter 23: Making Worlds with Tempest for Quake III Arena; Chapter 24: Creating Custom Content for Flight Simulator 2002; Chapter 25: Creating Adventures with Dungeon Siege; Chapter 26: Creating New Scenery for Trainz; Part VI: Appendixes; Appendix A: Installing and Configuring gmax; Appendix B: gmax Keyboard Shortcuts; Appendix C: What's on the CD-ROM; Glossary; Index