In this three part video tutorial series, lead video game artist, Ron Davey, will walk you through the process of creating a game-ready environment prop in Autodesk Maya, and also share his personal techniques and thoughts along the way.
In this, the first part of the series, Ron will begin by modeling the low-poly mesh from reference, and then move on to creating the high-poly source for the purpose of baking normal maps.
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willll you be showing the txture procedures too??
Oh thank God! …. Maya tutorials!
Great tutorial :)
You sounded a bit sick though, hope that cough goes away ^^
Great one, thanks :D
More Maya tuts please !
yes mor tuts plz
This morning I woke up and I said: “Oh god i need a New York Subway Entrance with poly extrude, pieces in pieces like matrioska and so on…”
if u want to do an hellgate london sequel…
Nice tutorial, Ron. Finally a Maya tut!
sweet tutorial man. the more maya tutorials the better.
MAYA FTW!!!
how to create a man in maya 2009
o… Nice tutorial,he more maya tutorials the better.
yes mor tuts plz
short question fellas…
I made this steps nearly correct i think, and in the step where i should rename the objects i got a lot of stuff more in the object list.
there are things like polysurface#-transform# and pCube#-transform#
wich failure did I?
I would love to find the script for duplicat extract, it would be a god send to speed up my pipeline, could you point me in the right direction please. Great tutorial, thanks
Fantastic tutorial. Like Mark i’d also like to request the dupe extract script you used. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Awsome tutorial Ron. I also would like to know where to grab this dupe extract script used in this turorial.
Hmmm … I don’t think this should be called a tutorial. It’s more of a fast-paced guide and although Maya isn’t exactly a toy, you’re assuming a ton of previous knowledge and aren’t exactly ‘walking’ anyone through anything.
Sorry, just my opinion as I don’t think this fits with the pace of other tutsplus tutorials …
Great tutorial!
But I think you did it so fast and I lost myself sometimes… heheheh.