BTW, there's a fantastic 3dsmax plugin called ShaderFX for making shaders for games that was released recently. Don't know if that woudl be of any use to you.

Video that show you how it works

http://www.lumonix.net/ShaderFX_BasicShaderCreation.avi
There's more info in the artist tools forums.

Video that show you how it works

http://www.lumonix.net/ShaderFX_BasicShaderCreation.avi
There's more info in the artist tools forums.