Since we need a ball and a floor to bounce on, we need to create those objects to make our scene before we can jump into the animation stuff. Create a new scene in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ). Reset it using File > Reset. Now create a floor using a box. Here we are not strict regarding the dimensions. Make a box to seem like a floor to bounce on. Refer to the illustrations on the right. Don't worry about the textures assigned. We will do that shorty. Now, create a sphere and place it above the floor to it's one extreme. See the Top view's image to know the positioning of the ball. Done? Well now let's assign some nice materials to both our floor and the ball in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ). Open Material Editor, select the first empty slot and click Get Material button . Within the Material Browser, choose Mtl_Library as source and from the list choose the material with name Wood_Burloak. Now the first slot contains the wood material. right? Now select the floor (box) and click on Assign Material to Selection in the Material Editor. Assign the material Fabric_Tan_Carpet to the second slot in the Material Editor and assign it to the sphere (ball) in the scene. All done? Great job. Now your scene in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ) should look like the figure given here