This document is intended to be a guide or a reference for those who, using Maya to create their characters, want to export them into the Quake III Arena engine. It’s based on our experience at the Virtual World of Art (VWA) where we wanted to create our own avatars for our environments, and reflects as well some particularities due to the specific needs of our project, that might not be the same of the average user willing to create boths for the game. We just use Quake III Arena as an engine for a very different context than what the game itself is about, but I think that it can be a useful reference nevertheless for those Quake III Arena enthusiasts that, using already Maya to model, texture and animate their characters, would like to see them fighting in Quake III Arena.
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This is a step by step tutorial how to export models from Maya to Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare. After installing the Maya Export Tools, that are included in the Mod Tools 1.0 released by Infinity Ward, you are able to add custom models to your custom maps. How to install the exporter to Maya, please read the iWiki from Infinity Ward. The Exporter tools are available for Maya 7 to 8.5.
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Maya 3D Shockwave Exporter is available on the Windows platform only. Great graphics and fast interaction—these are the goals when creating 3D content on the Web. This tutorial describes how to balance these goals when using Maya’s Shockwave 3D Exporter. This tutorial assumes you have Maya experience, but not Macromedia Director 8.5 experience. Do not expect great art from this tutorial; the focus is on learning the exporter and optimizing your scenes for export. Loading Maya Shockwave 3D exporter Before you begin, load the Maya Shockwave 3D Exporter plug-in. 1 Start Maya. 2 Select Window > Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager. The Plug-in Manager window opens. 3 Locate MayaShockwave3DExporter.mll and turn on Loaded.
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First, we install the exporter script that we’ll need to export from Maya to Second Life. Get the script at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlSculpt_mel . Copy the contents of the script. Run Maya: 1. Start the MEL (Maya script language) editor by pressing the button in the lower right corner 2. Paste the script text into the lower window 3. Save script to shelf will create a button in the Maya menu, allowing for easy access of the exporter SETUP 2: THE BASIC SPHERE A sculpty is sampled from a basic sphere form. The recommended setup is to start with a NURBS sphere of 16×16 sections. Here’s how to create the base sphere that we then can edit into nearly arbitrary forms:
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