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

Character Design & Integration with Half-Life®2, part two of the Noesis Interactive™, MOD Your World™ training series, focuses 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 extensive character creation tools of SOFTIMAGE|XSI®. Demystify rigging, weighting and learn how to prepare your models to be exported to various game engines. And finally, learn how to test, perfect, and export your 3D characters from SOFTIMAGE|XSI into Half-Life2 Deathmatch.

 

DVD topics covered include:
• Step by step guide to create “face maps” from photographs
• Detailed explanation of the Source® SDK contents
• Creating characters using SOFTIMAGE|XSI advanced toolset
• Using Valve’s® Biped Guide & export plugin for SOFTIMAGE|XSI
• Compiling 3D characters and textures using Valve’s® Source® SDK
• Step by step guide to replacing Half Life2 Deathmatch characters
• Detailed trouble shooting guide

SETUP & RIGGING Character Proportions Biped Guide Enveloping CHARACTER ANIMATION Idle Animation Game Walk Cycle In Game Example MOCAP WITH MOTOR Tagging the Valve Rig Applying BVH MoCap Adjusting and Plotting the MoCap Creating an Idle Cycle Normalized Data Testing Enveloping Game Walk Cycle Animation Layers Retargeting SMD Files HL2 MULTI PLAYER Structure and QC file Exporting Textures Remapping Animations Model Viewer Testing

EXPORTING TO HL2 Setup Reference Model LOD and Shadow LOD Exporting Textures QC File Explanation Hitboxes Why Animate? MOCAP WITH XSI 5 What is BVH Data? Rig Setup for MoCap Data Animation Mixer Part 1 Applying MoCap Data Animation Mixer Part 2 Creating an Idle Cycle Game Walk Cycle TRIGGERING IN HL2 Exporting to HL2 Model Viewer Testing Trigger System Setup Running Your Mod COMPILING PROBLEMS Compiling Play the Game BVH

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