#Softimage 3d design guide pdf pdf#
#Softimage 3d design guide pdf software#
#Softimage 3d design guide pdf professional#

Because for segments you need to have the inner parts, outer parts, corners, and so on. The boost up is mainly because you will have less polygons in scene if you were going to use segments. The greatest advantages on designing your level entirely in 3dsmax (or any 3d software) and then export it to FPS Creator is not only the freedom for design, which means you are more free to design your levels in a more natural way, but you will have a great performance boost up, especially if you be patient to slice your level geometry into smaller parts.

#Softimage 3d design guide pdf software#

This tutorial is exclusively for 3dsmax users, however, the concepts may be applied to any 3d software (maya, blender, softimage, lightwave and so on).

#Softimage 3d design guide pdf professional#

However, i used baked textures on all floor objects (because for this method work, the floor must be dynamic entity, and as dynamic entities don`t receive lightmapping, so there is need to use baked textures on them).Д«efore working as a web designer, i worked for 6 years as a professional 3D artist developing tv commercials and advertising, so i think because this i prefer to use a 3D Software to design my levels for FPSC. But good news is that i found a good way to simulate global illumination inside FPS Creator, not perfect (indeed the idea is very simple), but it does a good job. And for each object in scene, i would have to use one separated texture, or if merging textures, i would have to increase resolution (i.e 2048x2048), so going to 24MB each texture, now multiply this for, in example, at least 300 objects in my level!!! So i gave up this method (i never give up on anything before trying extensively), and i will now use standard FPSC Lighting.

So, for only one single 1024x1024 texture file i was getting almost 12MB of size because all the lighting information (Global Illumination) and gamma correction (lighting exposure) was rendered to the textures, thus being almost unusable this method. To have good looking textures when baking, you need to have use least 1024x1024 texture size for baked objects, because when baking, you cannot tile the baked texture like you can do with normal textures, you need to use it the way it is, the size it is. I was doing this, and getting impressive visual results (because of using of VRay Light Plugin), but this was not worth the extreme ammount of time for doing this, and another thing i noted is that the resulting baked textures size. I tried one method (even comented here), of baking all the shadows (like rolfy did on some demos) in 3dsmax and then export to FPSC. I would like to thank a lot of folks here, that helped me giving some usefull informations, like Rolfy, Bond1, Wolf, Ertlov, Uman, Landman, Maho76, The Zombie Killer and a lot of other members (maybe i forgot to mention them here). I think i did not gave too much contributions to this wonderfull community, now here is mine.ДЄfter a lot of months striving on a way to design a complete level in 3dsmax and export this level to FPSC, i found a definitive way that works 99% and can be used to design a completely level in any 3d application. I was very busy the last months (i actually work as a professional web designer), because this i did not come here again.

#Softimage 3d design guide pdf pdf#

Edit: The PDF guide is attached to this first post.