Character Design & Integration with Half-Life®2 (Maya)

Maya Character Design & Integration with Half-Life®2, part two of the Noesis Interactive™, MOD Your World™ training series, teaches how to "Share Your Character" by focusing on creating and implementing your own characters within Half-Life®2 Deathmatch™. Using custom templates, you'll begin by quickly transforming ordinary facial photos to deathmatch in no time. Then, learn the award winning Autodesk® MAYA® character toolset. Focus on rigging, weighting, UV mapping and preparing your models to be exported to various game engines. Next test, perfect, and export your 3D characters from MAYA into Half-Life®2 Deathmatch™.

HL2 MOD WORKFLOW Workflow Overview Process In Detail Polygon Limits IMPORTING CHARACTERS Extracting Models Extracting Materials Decompiling Complete Process FACEMAP TEXTURES Textures Overview Compiling Textures Facemap Replacement Intro Facemap Replacement Icon Creation Sharing Files In Game Example

UV MAPPING UV Mapping Intro Scene Setup Creating Selections Projecting Selections Fine Tuning RIGGING Joint Hierarchies Simple Rig Simple Animation Skinning Intro Character Skinning Part 1 Character Skinning Part 2 EXPORTING CHARACTERS Opening The Scene In Maya 7 Exporting Characters Level Of Detail In Game Example Hitboxes

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