Pipeline Development with Maya and XNA
Learn the fundamental workflow for next-gen game development and innovative techniques for seamlessly integrating Maya and XNA for game creation. Contains nearly 5 hours of project-based training for technical artists learning the methods of creating game content using XNA and Maya. Software required: XNA, Game Studio 2.0, Maya 2008.
What you'll learn
Learn the fundamental workflow for next-gen game development and innovative techniques for seamlessly integrating Maya and XNA for game creation. Contains nearly 5 hours of project-based training for technical artists learning the methods of creating game content using XNA and Maya. Popular highlights include: XNA Development Overview; Interfacing with Keyboard and Gamepad; Building Controller Systems; Controller Vibration; Exporting and Loading Static Meshes from Maya; Exporting Animated Characters from Maya; Moving and Turning a Character; Object-oriented Programming with Bullets and Targets; Baking Textures in Maya; Deriving Bounding Boxes from Maya; Collision Detection with Bounding boxes; Collision Detection with Rays; Building a Custom Animation Player; Switching and Blending Between Animations; Chase Cameras; Camera Shakes and Drawing Text. Software required: XNA Game Studio 2.0, Maya 2008.
Table of contents
- Building the Controller Class 7m
- Getting Keyboard and Gamepad States 7m
- Creating Actions to Store Keys and Buttons 8m
- Adding Flags to Actions to Check Press and Release 8m
- Making a List of Actions 8m
- Checking an Action Based on Its Name 7m
- Finishing up Our Control System 8m
- Moving Our Character Forward 5m
- Spinning Our Character Around 8m
- Setting Run and Walk Speeds 2m
- Creating World Textures with Maya Batch Bake 7m
- Exporting and Loading the World 8m
- Breaking Our World into Boxes 6m
- Extracting Bounding Box Information in Maya 10m
- Collision Detection Between the Character and World 8m
- Implementing a Chase-cam 7m
- Exporting the Final Animated Mesh (Part 1) 9m
- Exporting the Final Animated Mesh (Part 2) 7m
- Fixing Bone Animation Twitches 5m
- Alternate Baking Methods 9m
- Creating a Clip Player 5m
- Setting a Clip; Start Time and End Time 5m
- Getting Keyframe Values Based on Time 7m
- Updating the Clip Player 6m
- Using the Clip Player in the Game 5m
- Playing a Specific Animation Range 9m
- Coding a Blendtransforms Function 7m
- Blending in Action 8m
- Triggering Other Animations 8m
- Shaking the Camera with Every Footstep 6m
- Breaking It Down - the Transform Class 7m
- Breaking It Down - the Shape Class 8m
- Creating and Drawing Bullets 7m
- Flushing out the Bullet Class 8m
- Shooting from the Gun-arm 5m
- Acquiring Targets 10m
- Removing Bullets Based on Age and World Collision 9m
- Hitting Targets and Increasing the Score 7m
- Displaying the Score 7m
- Returning Targets and Glowing Bullets 5m
- Vibration Feedback 5m
About the author
Originally from Lagos, Nigeria, Sunder has made great headway in both the interactive game design and 3D animation worlds. Throughout his career, Sunder has earned degrees in computer information science, multimedia & game design, as well as 3D character animation. He's fully devoted to providing breathtaking and out-of-the-norm experiences to as many people as possible. With a powerful skillset in Houdini and years of educational clout, Sunder aims to give understandable solutions to complex to... more