3D max text

This is the text I created in 3D studio max. What I did was when I opened 3d studio was I selected the "Spline" textures and selected Text, dragged and dropped the text into the centre of my screen but it was "MAX text" so I changed the text to Alex and then changed the font to my liking.

My text was 2d, instead I wanted it to be 3D, so I selected my text and converted it into an editable mesh and then with the polygon tool I selected my entire text and then extruded it several times (I did it several incase it needed to be edited).

After I had extruded it, it was now 3D but I wanted some colour on it. I did this by pressing the 'M' button and then played around with textures to my liking. I got this one as seen in the picture by selecting the "planets" texture and then played around with the colours and ended with this cool looking text and colours.