3D Asset Creation

3D Asset Creation Resources

Character Modelling

Simple Character Model max file and model sheet

Simple Character Model tutorial videos

Low Poly Mage tutorial videos

Basemesh starter kit

Joan of Arc tutorial

Digital Tutors - High-Detail Game Character

Digital Tutors - Character Modelling Concepts in 3ds Max

Digital Tutors - Modelling Low Polygon Game Characters in 3ds Max

Head modelling - Duylinh Nguyen - Nice head modelling tute (3 videos) that should apply to any 3d package. Try this if you’re struggling with the face - particularly the ear.

Female Character Modelling, Female Face modelling, Male body modelling - James Taylor - This Youtube channel has some good character modelling tutes in Maya that should transfer easily to 3dsmax.

Hack n Slash method- Creating Face topology Andrew Silke - If struggling with the plane extruding method here’s an alternative method. More advanced, created in Maya (use cut tool in Max).

Modelling an ear

Sculpting

Axe and tree stump mudbox tutorial

Creature creation tutorial series (intro to sculpting)

Hard surface Modelling

http://piratportfolio.com/fpp_eng/ Modelling guns for FPS games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y83FLL6TqF0 (Grenade high poly hard surface model tutorial)

Arriumus 3D - Excellent Youtube channel with lots of hard surface modelling content.

How The F*#% Do I Model This? Thread on Polycount

Video tutes

Booleans

Simple Low Poly Sword

Barrel Workflow - Non destructive modelling with Modifiers, Baking Maps and Quixel.

Hard Surface Modelling Tutes (Using bend modifier, references and repeating details, floating geo etc)

Modular Workflow

Concrete Wall Complete Asset Workflow

Axe and Tree Stump Complete Asset Workflow

Weighted vertex normals MaxScript

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Whitepapers

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Normal_map

http://simonschreibt.de/game-art-tricks/

http://simonschreibt.de/gat/renderhell/

Gamasutra - GPU Performance for Game Artists

Unreal Engine

Exporting Characters to Unreal

FBX Exporter for UE4 (TS tools)

Tutorials

Documentation/Tech specs

Static Mesh Docs

Links

terrain.party - terrain height map generator

TS Tools - http://www.tomshannon3d.com/2014/09/tstoolsv11.html

Normal Mapping

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Normal_map

https://drive.google.com/a/sae.edu/file/d/0B02lElvs8BcvYllmQWpXUGxod3M/view

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OONQzKcWeMY (Great overview of normal mapping)

Normal map tips and troubleshooting threads -

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107196

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81154

Map Baking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n8XsbrUxNI - Baking in XNormal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgYoXF6QmWw - Doing an “exploded” bake in 3dsmax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D16uE0IBuLo&feature=youtu.be - “How to Bake a Flawless Normal Map in 3dsmax” - Good info but some content is a bit out of date.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGC2X6Qazvs - Baking in Substance

PBR Shaders

http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/pbr-theory

http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/pbr-practice

http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/pbr-conversion

http://eat3d.com/free/pbr-practical-workflow

PBR in 3ds Max:

http://forums.cgarchitect.com/79455-mila-3dsmax2016-finish-here-new-paket.html

http://quixel.se/hub/tutorial/suite-2-with-mila-in-mental-ray/

(alternative - if you don’t need PBR for your project but just want to use Quixel you can always set Quixel to produce non-PBR textures and plug them into a regular Standard Material in 3ds Max)

https://quixel.se/tutorial/vehicular-hard-surface-detailing-using-quixel-ddo/

General Shaders

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Shaders

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch24.html

http://filmicgames.com/archives/547

http://filmicgames.com/archives/557

http://seblagarde.wordpress.com/

http://renderwonk.com/publications/s2010-shading-course/

Cloth

https://developer.nvidia.com/clothing

https://developer.nvidia.com/apex-clothing-3dsmax-tutorials

Modular Environment Workflow

Aftermath Bootcamp Video Tutorials

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