Creating Urban Game Environments in 3ds Max with Adam Crespi

MOV + Exercise Files | Duration: 5h 54min | 960x540 | Video: 30 fps 1582 kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 127 kbps 2 stereo | 1.65 GB

Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

Follow a practical guide to building 3D cityscapes for games. Author Adam Crespi constructs a city block in 3ds Max utilizing low-polygon modeling and advanced texturing techniques. The course shows how to model common city elements such as buildings, intersections, curbs, and roofs and explains how to expand a city quickly and easily by reusing existing geometry in a modular way. The course also sheds light on simulating real-world detail with baking, lighting, and ambient occlusion techniques and offers a series of best practices for exporting to the Unity gaming engine.

Topics include:

• Understanding the design process and software requirements

• Analyzing concept art for texture and key shadow detail

• Planning differently styled buildings

• Laying out city blocks

• Organizing construction elements and models using layers

• Cloning geometry and texture

• Testing the module for correct floor-to-floor heights

• Arranging, aligning and cloning modular elements

• Building a texture library

• Creating stone, wood, and brick textures

• Constructing texture sheets

• Drawing detail

• Using occlusion as a foundation for dirt

• Preparing for Unity as a world builder