Noesis Interactive

Noesis Interactive's MOD Your World™ Bundle lets you buy both part one and two of the MOD Your World™ DVD training series together and save! Almost 10 hours of interactive content will take you from scaling spheres in SOFTIMAGE|XSI to rigging your own custom super soldier and hunting down online campers in Half-Life 2.

3D Content Creation with SOFTIMAGE|XSI® focuses on the basics of SOFTIMAGE|XSI 3D software including modeling, texturing, prop and character modeling and provides you with all the tips you need to know to get to the ultimate goal - integrating your own characters, props, and maps into video games.

Character Design & Integration with Half-Life®2 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.

Character Design & Integration with Half-Life®2 teaches how to "Share Your Character" by focusing on learning the award winning Autodesk® Maya® character toolset. Focus on rigging, weighting, UV mapping and preparing your models to be exported into Half-Life®2 Deathmatch™.

Advanced Source® Level Design, teaches you to "Create Your World" by focusing on designing and constructing your own custom levles within Source® SDK powered games. Learn the fundamentals of Hammer™ as well as advanced texturing, displacement, functionality and optimization techniques.

Custom Props & Animation for Source® Powered Games, allows you to further "Activate Your World". You’ll learn the basics of 3D animation in SOFTIMAGE®|XSI®, build an animation library and create dynamic props that can be walked on, picked up, broken apart and brought to life within Source powered games.

In Advanced Character Animation for Gamers you'll see how easy it is to rig and envelop a character for the Source™ engine using SOFTIMAGE®|XSI®6, create unique game walk cycles and apply motion capture data to your own custom designed characters within Source® SDK powered games.