3ds Max Basics for Modeling Video Game Assets: Volume 1

Bill Culbertson, the founder of Whooplah LLC, is dedicated to developing family-friendly entertainment that assists parents in meeting and exceeding their parenting objectives. Bill has been renowned internationally as a fine artist for his sculptural work in various large-scale public art works across the world, most recently a Jim Henson tribute in Hyattsville, Maryland. The Copley Society of Boston has honored him with the title of Copley Master Artist. Bill is an Associate Professor at New England Institute of Technology and a member of the University's nationally acclaimed Video Game Development and Design Department. Bill has over eighteen years of postsecondary teaching experience, with a focus on 3D modeling, animation, and game development.

This step-by-step lesson book for learning 3D modeling fundamentals develops the readers modeling skills through a series of modeling projects designing modules for a medieval castle environment. As the text introduces new modeling skills, it also encourages the reader to complete repetitious activities, reinforcing skills learned along the way. The content is presented as though the reader is working in a video game studio, researching asset design, supplying placeholder assets to the team, and final model assets that are unwrapped and custom textured. The modeled environment is exported to the Unity game engine after completion of the modeling projects for use in a real game environment. Although the text uses Autodesk 3ds Max for the modeling program, the principles are transferable to other major modeling programs.

Key Features:

• The purpose of 3ds Max Basics for Modeling Video Game Assets is to teach the principles of 3D modeling video game assets in a streamlined, logical sequence that is suitable for novice learners.
• This set of modeling activities is the outcome of teaching the principles of 3D modeling to over a thousand video game students.
• Teachers are frequently untrained in teaching 3D modeling ideas. This self-paced learning text assists those educators.
• Includes instructions and project files for exporting the completed project environment to the Unity 3D game engine.
• Additional 3ds Max tool instructions are included in the appendices.
• A companion site contains working 3ds Max project files for each Chapter, as well as a 3ds Max user interface and 3ds Max shortcut keys.

Author: Bill Culbertson

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