Game Character Development with Maya
Game Character Development with Maya
ISBN: 073571438X
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 169
Pages: 169
Authors: Antony Ward
- Game Character Development with Maya
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Why Maya?
- Why I Wrote This Book
- About This Book
- On the Included CD
- Chapter1.Designing Your Character
- What Makes a Successful Character?
- The Three Stages of Concepting
- Research
- Preparation
- Design
- Summary
- Chapter2.Modeling Kila
- Preparation
- Getting Started in Maya
- Building a Placeholder Character
- The Basic Shape for Kila
- The Morgue
- Summary
- Chapter3.Finishing and Refining
- Muscle Line Mapping
- Legs
- Face and Upper Body Detail
- Hands
- Feet
- Summary
- Chapter4.Modeling Details
- Creating Hair
- Modeling the Ear
- Modeling the Eyes
- Developing the Inner Mouth
- Dressing Kila
- Summary
- Chapter5.Model Optimization
- Deciding What to Remove
- Finding the Polygon Count
- Arm Optimization
- Torso Optimization
- Waist and Leg Optimization
- Foot Optimization
- Hair, Face, and Neck Optimization
- Current Count
- Hand Optimization
- Final Check
- Summary
- Chapter6.Deformation Testing
- The Arms and Legs
- The Lower Body
- Face Deformation
- Summary
- Chapter7.Modeling Grae
- The Torso and Limbs
- Creating Grae s Head
- Muscle Line Mapping
- Adding Details
- Modeling the Wings
- Optimization
- Deformation Testing
- Summary
- Chapter8.Texture Preparation
- Mapping Methods
- Dividing a Character
- Mapping UVs: The Checker Map Technique
- Chapter9.Texture Painting
- Image Preparation
- The Base Colors
- Viewing the Texture in Maya
- Lighter Shades and Highlights
- Darker Shades and Shadows
- Final Texture Details
- Working with an Alpha Map
- Bump and Specularity Maps
- Topology Check
- Texture Bit Depth and Page Size
- Summary
- Chapter10.Levels of Detail (LODs)
- Why Do We Need LODs?
- Setting the Binding Pose
- Generating LODs
- Grae s LODs
- Testing LODs: The Level of Detail Group
- Summary
- Chapter11.Skeleton Setup
- The Base Skeletons
- Additional Joints
- Joint Cleanup
- Checking the Rotational Axis
- Repositioning the Characters
- Summary
- Chapter12.Character Rigging
- Why Use Controls?
- Forward Kinematics and Inverse Kinematics
- Arm and Hand Controls
- Leg and Feet Controls
- Main Body Controls
- Upper Body Controls
- More Controls
- Visibility Controllers
- Color Coding for Icons
- Summary
- Chapter13.Facial Animation Setup
- Joint-Based Facial Animation Setup (Kila)
- Facial Rig (Kila)
- Blend Shapes Facial Animation Setup (Kila)
- Grae s Facial Animation
- Which Is Best?
- Summary
- Chapter14.Final Character Deformation
- Preparation and Binding
- Painting Kila s Weights
- Hair Weights
- Final Rig Adjustments
- Level of Detail Weights
- Painting Grae s Weights
- Summary
- Chapter15.Finalize and Clean Up
- Scene Optimization
- Make Your Rig Idiot-Proof
- Character Sets
- Summary
- Chapter16.Animating for Games
- Animation Optimization
- Animation Categories
- The Animation List
- Animation Tools
- Creating a Walk Cycle
- Running in Place
- Animation Archive
- Summary
- AppendixA.Normal Mapping in Maya
- System Requirements
- Generating a Normal Map
- Viewing Normal Maps
- AppendixB.Reference and Further Reading
- Anatomy Books
- Animation Books
- Web Sites
- Graphics Tablets
- Index
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Game Character Development with Maya
ISBN: 073571438X
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 169
Pages: 169
Authors: Antony Ward