DUDE! I think you made the ‘funniest posts of all time’ hall of fame! What do you mean what do you do with it? Obviously make your own 3-hour fully CG space opera! Duh!
Actually if you are looking for help just GOOGLE ‘3DS tutorials’ and you’ll find enought tutorials that if you did one everyday you wouldn’ finished for 5 years.
Enjoy!
Congratulations on getting 3DS, we just hope its a legal copy!
lol, where can i find some starter tutorials?? because every tutorial i’ve seen seems to depend on you knowing what your doing 
thanks
There is a big tutorial library that ships with 3ds, which pretty much teaches you everything you have to know to start out.
You can find them in the " Help" rollout.
Hi, check www.3dbuzz.com and www.3d-palace.com there you’ll find a lot of begginer to advanced video tutorials witch will help you a lot.
Hi, I suggest that you take a look on the tutorial that came with 3Dmax in first place. After that, try this: http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/joanofarc/joanmenu.asp that’s a nice tutorial that help me a lot, when i begun to work with 3d. And already have a a thread with people that are doing this tutorial.
the link for the thread: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=31426
Good Luck
LMAO! Woohoo I went out and bought a Porsche but I don’t know how to drive!:surprised:p:D
F1 is going to be your best friend…
Yeah you should definitely start out by taking the tutorials that come with 3dsmax…after going after those courses take some online tutorials. Here are some good websites:
For getting started, I highly recomend books over web tutorials. Just head to the graphics section of barnes and noble and sink $55 on a 3ds book, it will save you hours compared to all the info you would have to compile from web, then when you have something specific you need to learn, surf the net.
If purchasing a max manual I can highly reccomend Deconstructing the Elements by Pete Draper - www.xenomorphic.co.uk - on there you have written lessons, video tutorials and tips for creating all manner of effects laden goodness. Also heading to Petes site you will find a huge amount of additional tutorials on all sorts of subjects.
You are also welcome to pop over to my site whever you want, we also have a couple of tutorials.
edit - damnation, I need to check dates on posts that appear in my refferer log. I seem to have accidentally performed Thread Necromancy again 
I would suggest starting with the Chess peice tutorial that ships with 3DS Max. And then go from there.
Take my advice, if you want to get anywhere, don’t start off with the tuts that come with 3ds max. Go download some good video tuts that will guide you through from begginner lessons to advance lessons.
Im new to 3d studio max, and thanks to some good video tuts im more than ready to make just about anything in 3dsmax, somthing that would have taken 10 times longer if i had done it through the tuts that come with 3ds max.
Learning how to use 3ds max from the beggining using the tuts that come with 3ds max is a long, boring and daunting task. They are not very good for begginers as they assume you already know alittle bit about the program and so you tend to get lost from time to time. Seeing someone make somthing in 3ds max makes it so easy that you can never go wrong or accidentally miss somthing, and it makes the learning experience much quicker and more enjoyable.
Once you’ve finished watching enough video tuts and think your ready to start making somthing in 3ds max you can use the tuts that ship with the program, although i would only use them as a guide to making somthing specific and wouldnt rely on learning a large chunk of 3ds max with them.
The 3dsmax manual is the easiest thing in the world! It takes you through all the object variations and features of the program, giving you an in-depth description of what they all do. Read the manual first, then take the preset 3dsmax tutorials (definitely recommended before the videos…but do whatever) 
Spot ON neckmasher 
Let me say the same thing in a different way…
Backwards. If you want to know the rhyme&reason, to understand that there are different approaches to constructing the ame thing and knowing why one way is better than another for a particular task (be it faster, cleaner, or just more efficient)
Don’t you think a video tut teaches you something specific? Doesn’t say anything about what this spinner or that setting does (of course with the exception of a vid tut that was created by someone whom knows how to teach and knows what they’re doing. those generally cost a good chunk of change), most of them are all point-click-create. Then people end up asking silly questions like where did my gizmo go?
Don’t get me wrong, video tutorials are great. A good foundation is better. Anyone can hack sh!t together.
The manual and the tutorials written for max start with the absolute beginner.
BTW I can’t believe this thread is still active the original poster hasn’t been here in a month…
I’ve got a bit of a problem too. When I try to launch a tutorial for the Help menu nothing happens? The files are there but maybe I’m missing something?
edit: jumped the gun. found them.
Don’t you think a video tut teaches you something specific?
Depends on what video tut you watch. If you have a credit card and arnt afraid of buying professional video tutorials off the net youll be all ready to go. And i strongly recommend everyone get hold of some professional video tutorials that cover everything from begginers to advanced.
:shrug:isn’t that what I said? All the free video tutorials (i’ve seen alot of them) i’ve done have been pretty specific. All the ones I’ve bought have been pretty specific too.
I tell ya I read the manual all the time. Probably always will…but I guess the only way younger people (not all of course) know how to learn is by watching a video?
Really I think Autodesk should just stop righting the manual and then see what happens. Those who know will know and well everbody else will be making the same old stuff as everyone else cus that’s all they learnt from the video tut…I dunno just rambling on…
Anyway this is turning into an OT debate…my fault sorry…
im not saying that the 3ds manual is bad and should be ignored or anything, im just saying if you have just started using 3ds max and dont know anything about the program its best to start off with some professional beginner video tuts.
Anyway, i dont want to start an argument either. I myself found it much much easier to start off with a video tut than the manual, but i guess everyones different.
peace
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