ohh and soory i didnt put this in the forum post up top, but i would love for someone to give me a link for a tutorial on how to aply textures and to render my object. ohh and i can never get HMT3 to work some error message always pops up. if that was newbish.... honk.
There's should be some helpful tutorials along with Gmax, as is with 3ds Max, though I'm not certain about that.
As for rendering - I'm not sure if you can or cannot do it in Gmax (you can in 3ds max). There's a program called Brazil, though I'm not sure if it's a plugin for Max, or a stand-along program so you'll just have to search google on it.