Character Model Viewing Engine

Mr. Bean

Hello,

So here's my problem: I want to be able to view character models while texturing so I can see what it would look like in a video game. If I made a character's arm one solid color, for example, it would look awful in Max, but if it were in a game it wouldn't look quite as bad. Obviously I don't want that simple of textures, but my point is that it a texture (even a simple one) will look a lot different and usually better in a game engine.

I got the impression that Marmoset is generally geared more towards hard surface models, and it usually takes quite a bit of work to get a model into a game engine.

I was wondering if there's any shader or engine that is easy to use, free, and will make it so I can see how an organic model would look ingame.

Thanks for any response!

Racer445

If your art is good it should look good in pretty much any engine. If you poke around here you can find many great looking shots of characters in Marmoset.

If you want to display it in an already completed level try UDK.

BeatKitano

Marmoset is not aimed at any kind of work, maybe not perfect for enviro yet, but it's the easiest (and quite beautiful) way to see your texture in a good engine as you work on them.

UDK is nice too, but its clearly not as "realtime update" as marmoset.

Spicypixel

3pointshader does a good job in 3dsmax in realtime, give it a shot.

ZacD

3PShader if your using max normal maps.

Mr. Bean

Thanks a lot everyone for the suggestions. I think Lauren's shader is perfect, since I don't have to do any exporting or importing and it seems simple to use. May look into 3pointshader at some time, but for now I think I have what I need.

Thanks again.