FAQs, Help, and Tutorials
3D Cafe's Tutorials, 3d Studio Beginners Modelling and Animation Guide, Boboland, Comet Cartoons, Cyba3, MadWomb, Making Models in 3D Studio Max, MAX Tutorials, Rethinkfx, Seb's 3D Studio Max Page
GI Renders
Brazil r/s, Entropy, finalRender, InSight, Lightflow, Lightscape, Mental Ray, RayMax, VirtuaLight
Plugins
3dz, AF Video Systems, Blur Studio, cgCharacter, CLOTH, Creature Creator - FXRealm Studios, Cuneyt Ozdas, Double Duck Productions, Flatten - Mankua, HABWare
User Groups
Indianapolis 3D Studio User Group, San Diego 3D Studio Max User Group, San Francisco 3D Studio User's Group
3D Studio MAX
Discreet products include 3d Studio Max. Professional 3D modeling and animation solution for PCs.
3Dspline.com
A 3D resource center containing the ultimate 3D public gallery, tutorial section, and free download area including free 3d meshes, plugins, textures and sounds.
Benchmarking 3ds max
Examines some existing 3ds max benchmarks in great detail, also developed a new benchmark for Radiosity and published the results. This is a non profit project.
Complete Support for 3D Studio MAX
Beginning, intermediate and advanced online training for 3D Studio MAX. Seven day trial available.
Digimation
Digital animation company that publishes over 100 3D products for Studio Max.
Engram E-Mail Archive
Contains an archive of the e-mails submitted to the 3D Studio Max Engram e-mail list.
Free 3D Studio IPAS
Information about the Ixps, Axps, Pxps and Sxps (IPAS). Free modelling tools and IPAS from different authors.
Free Resource for 3D Lovers
Tutorials, models, maps, gallery, forum, and plug-ins, mainly for 3D Studio Max 5.
GHOST3D.com
3D animation content and tools for the entertainment and games industries. 3D Studio MAX plugins available: Surf-iT Spline Modeling kit, Scribe-iT digitizing and others.
ID8 Media
Software and hardware for 3D and 2D products. ID8 Media carry all the multimedia software and hardware including intergraph, sgi, HP. Selling and support for Max users.
InsideCG Community - 3ds max
Forum for discovering help and information on the techniques of 3ds max.
Kinetix 3D Studio forum at Tek-Tips
Discreet 3D Studio support forum and mutual help system for computer professionals. Selling and recruiting forbidden.
MaX Forums
3D Studio MAX artist resources such as free plugins, tutorials, the unofficial FAQ and discussion forum
Max Stuff
Freeware tools, plugins, tutorials and Gallery. Download animations (FLICS) images and custom IPAS and Keyscripts for 3d Studio Max.
Max3D
A resource for 3ds max users find the latest news of what is going, an extensive searchable plugin database, and tutorials.
maxres: 3ds Max 5 Resources
3ds max 5 scripts and macro scripts. Also showcasing the artist gallery.
ScriptSide
Useful scripts for UV manipulating, texturing, modeling and many other working area of 3D Studio Max.
Textures to The Max
Professional material libraries and seamless maps on CD for use with 3D Studio Max. Also links to tutorials about materials and Mapping using any software.
The 3D Studio
Offering free resources like models, textures, tutorials, a gallery, support forum, and contests for 3D Studio MAX.
The 3DLuVr
Resource site for 3D Studio Max users has sister sites for tutorials in Max, contests, and galleries.
Virtual Republic Boboland
Scripting, plug-ins, tutorials, FAQs, gallery.