Ok this tutorials will show you how to get a really cool glass-crystal effect.

Start off by resetting max. Then choose the geosphere object and draw a geosphere on your perspective view

now to the right, under the geosphere settings unclick the smooth option, and choose Tera for your shape.

This should give you a nice choppy image like the one below

Now we are going to extrude each patch of the shape. To do this right click on the image and choose convert> convert to editable patch.

Then right click on the image again, This time it should have a lot more options, click on "extrude Patch"

Now click somewhere on the image. When you put your cursor over the spot that you clicked a new cursor image will appear. When it does, hold down the left mouse button and drag. This should start to pull a piece of the shape outward

Keep doing this until you get a shape like the one below

Now we are going to smooth it out a little. To do this go to Modifiers> subdivision surfaces> and choose mesh smooth. The change the Ilteration to the value of 2 and don't change anything else. This should give you an image like the one below

Now right click on the image and choose duplicate. Then rescale you duplicated object to a small size and place it in front of your large object

Now we are going to put a good material o it. Press "M" to bring up the material editor. Then click on this

icon, and then find the material called "Reflection Lake Gold"

Then double click on it to bring it up in the material editor. Now click the option that says "opacity"

and then click where it says "none" and choose "falloff"

Now click the button below

Now all you have to do is render it and you should get something like the image below

there you go, now you know an easy way to get a verry cool effect in Max