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Game Character Development with Maya

ISBN: 073571438X
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2004
Pages: 169

Authors: Antony Ward

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• 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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