SHIP PRODUCTION PIPELINE DOCUMENTATION
SHIP PRODUCTION PIPELINE DOCUMENTATION....................................................................1
1 INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................5
1.1 Software and Plugins.........................................................................................................5
Installing Maya Plugins.............................................................................................................5
Installing Photoshop Export Macro.........................................................................................5
1.2 Process...............................................................................................................................5
2 MODELING............................................................................................................................7
2.1 Poly Budgets.......................................................................................................................7
2.2 General Topography...........................................................................................................8
2.3 Maya Modeling Tools.........................................................................................................9
X-Ray Toggle.............................................................................................................................9
Count Polys...............................................................................................................................9
2.4 Hierarchies.........................................................................................................................9
2.5 LODs and Weapon Effects Collision Meshes..................................................................9
3 WEAPONS...........................................................................................................................10
3.1 Ships and SubSystems....................................................................................................10
3.2 Joints...............................................................................................................................10
3.3 Two barreled guns............................................................................................................11
3.4 Ships................................................................................................................................11
3.5 SubSystems.....................................................................................................................11
3.6 Ship and Subsystem Tuning files...................................................................................12
3.7 WeaponTuning.xls............................................................................................................12
4 SUBSYSTEMS.....................................................................................................................13
4.1 File Structure.....................................................................................................................13
DataSrc....................................................................................................................................13
4.2 Data..................................................................................................................................13
Subsystems.............................................................................................................................13
SubSystemTuning.xls.............................................................................................................13
Weapons.................................................................................................................................13
4.3 Ships................................................................................................................................13
4.4 Summary of important files.............................................................................................14
4.5 Creating and Exporting the Maya File............................................................................14
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Setting up directories..............................................................................................................14
Modeling your subsystem.......................................................................................................14
4.6 Exporting Your Subsystem..............................................................................................14
4.7 Getting the game to find and load your subsystem......................................................15
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