Tiling level design within Maya or Max

armagon

Do you guys know any plugins that allows me to draw "tiles" on a scene, something similar to these:

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/4194
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/14708
http://www.mapeditor.org/

But inside Maya or Max? I'm finding myself doing the same steps over and over again when level designing inside Maya and i wish i could do better with a plugin or some collection of scripts to make my life easier. Could not find anything though.

Eric Chadwick

Do a forum search for Wall Worm. It's for Max not Maya, but is a pretty cool toolset.

armagon

It seems like a VMF exporter, in order to import shapes in Valve's Hammer editor, right? I'm actually looking to design levels in Maya, just with some helpers. Like this: http://www.protoolsforunity3d.com/probuilder/

Actually, right now i was using that tool. I designed levels in ProBuilder and used a Unity script to export the scene as COLLADA. The problem is: i lose all my material and texture data. I wanted to do everything in Maya.

Eric Chadwick

Why?

I ask because every developer I've worked with who has tried to use Maya or Max as their level editor has eventually run into too many barriers for it to be worthwhile to continue. It seems like it would be a natural fit, but in the end it really isn't.

armagon

I feel more productive inside Maya than common level editors. I can add more details and handle edge cases without some ugly hacking.

Eric Chadwick

What game engine is it going out to? How are you ultimately viewing and playing the level?

armagon

Torque3D!