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™.

DVD topics covered include:Step by step guide to create 'face maps' from photographsDetailed explanation of the Source® SDK contentsAdd life to characters using MAYA's award winning toolsetUV MappingCompiling 3D characters and textures using Valve's® Source® SDKStep by step guide to replacing Half Life2 Deathmatch charactersDetailed trouble shooting guide

Media:
PC-DVD ROM

Software used:
Autodesk® MAYA® 8
Autodesk® MAYA® 7
Adobe Photoshop®
Valve's Half-Life®2 - Death Match

Run time:
2.6 hours

Languages:
English, Spanish (both included on same disk)