Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold
This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i
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If you want a standard indoors map in Unreal Engine, the best thing you can do is download the ActorX for Maya 5 plugin (https://udn.epicgames.com/Two/ActorX/...Maya50_243.zip) then read up on the UnrealWiki's starter tutorials: (https://wiki.beyondunreal.com/wiki/)
Just start small -- and when you have problems, ask here, Atari, or any modding-based forum for UnrealEngine.
Note: Each unrealengine based game has its own editor, and some not at all. UnrealTournament ALWAYS has an editor, and games like BIA (Brothers in Arms -- an UnrealEngine game) have editors aswell. Both Epic and Gearbox (developers of each respective games) are really very community oriented, and atleast in Gearbox I've seen a dev or two regularly answer questions newbie modders have.
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You can possibly go after Crystal Space or one of the other opensource 3d Engines -- but you'll find a lot more people use commercial engines :p
UT 2004 is the best game to buy to get UnrealWarfare Engine (unless you want to wait 'til 2007 to bask in UnrealEngine3 with its like -- 1->1.5 million polygon rendering, massive shader capacities, and so much more to make a modder fall over in a fit of convulsions.)
Before you buy, check out unrealwiki (again: https://wiki.beyondunreal.com/wiki/) and see its capacities... its pretty large though most of its capacities require abstract thinking:
For example, destructible scenery is possible -- but there's no code for it... rather you need to create an actor (object) which has health -- and when that health reaches certain levels make it do things:
Change models to semi-damage models
Smoke
Force other object to animate
Blow up
Cause damage
etc.
So if you got abstract thinking -- then you're pretty well good to go, if you don't than it may be a good idea to form up a team of people.
https://wiki.beyondunreal.com/wiki/Making_Mods
Read through all "The Layman's Guide to Making Mods" tutorials -- its all about basic management of teams.
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Valve has a great Developer Wiki set up, you can check it out at: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Docs
Just another engine to consider
Like the Unreal Engine, you must own Half Life 2, Counter Strike: Source, or another game that uses the engine.
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https://udn.epicgames.com/Two/UnrealE...untime22261903
and the EULA is
https://www.unrealtechnology.com/flas...ime/eula.shtml
Also: Its much easier to develop in UnrealEngine2 if you have UnrealTournament2004 there to reference off of. All the "actors" in UT2004 are "opensource" which means along with learning from UnrealWiki you also can learn from UnrealTournament itself.
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Yea..thats what I downloaded in the first place. I thought thats what you said to actually get..so I did alittle searching, and D/L'ed the demo. If I had 8 grand lying around...Id buy a licensed version. Thanx for all the info Phopojijo.Originally posted by Phopojijo
Actually, aparently there IS an UnrealEngine2 runtime available....
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I thought it was MUCH higher than that! iD charges 250K
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Edit: UE3 Commercial license is estimated at 350k, though no-one's taking credit for that estimate because they're all under NDA.
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