T his tutorial will explain how to export static textured models (meaning no animation yet) from Maya into Crysis. I’ll update this tutorial as I learn more about the process and more tools become available. Big thanks to Psychojohno and Spiderdan for their tutorials which taught me a lot!
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Welcome to Maya, the world’s leading software application for 3D digital animation and visual effects. Maya provides a comprehensive suite of tools for your 3D content creation work ranging from modeling, animation, and dynamics through to painting and rendering to name but a few. With Maya, you can create and edit 3D models in a variety of modeling formats and animate your models using Maya’s suite of animation tools. You can create convincing visual simulations of rigid and soft body objects interacting in the physical world using the computational dynamics and particles tools. Maya also provides a range of tools to allow you to render your animated 3D scenes to achieve photo realistic imagery and animated visual effects
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The Maya interface
Now that Maya is running, you first need to understand what you are seeing. There are a lot of items displayed in the Maya user interface. The best way to begin is to learn the fundamental tools and then learn additional tools as you need them. Begin by learning some of the main tools.
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Metaballs are pieces of geometry (balls, cubes, cylinders, etc.) that, in the case of C4D, have attractive ‘forces’ attached to them. When these metaball objects come into proximity, they stretch their surfaces towards each other – the extent to which they stretch relative to their distance, as well as how smoothly the bridging geometry is created are parameters that the user can control.
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This quick reference show you the keyboard shortcuts for LightWave 3D. LightWave 3D >> Maya Transition guide ViewPort Commands Traversing Hierarchy Modeling Viewport Options Display, Display Options or < d > Hotbox or Panel Menu Select Ancester Up Arrow Up Arrow Copy, Paste or < c, v > Edit Menu > Duplicate Options Min Max N/A Select Child Down Arrow Down Arrow Array Multiply > Array Edit Menu > Duplicate Options Arc Rotate < alt > + LMB < alt > + LMB Mirror < crtl + v > Edit Menu > Duplicate Options Pan Main Interface Button < alt > + MMB Command Panels Component Pick Masks Space Bar • Vertex • Edge Zoom Main Interface Button < alt > + LMB + MMB
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