before i begin is thier somthing i need to setup?

JesterBox · Feb 2005

im going to begin creating a charecter for unreal2004 ive done this alittle at a friends house. but i want to know if thiers anytihing to setup with maya or u paint or anything before i start. please help me out thx.

Snowfly · Feb 2005

Sorry but, what?

MoP · Feb 2005

I was thinking the same. A little more clarification of your question might be necessary.
If you do a little Google searching I'm sure you can find some useful tutorials for Maya. http://udn.epicgames.com is a good place to look too, I think.

MoP

Cthogua · Feb 2005

Jeff Parrot(t) (hehe...oops) has a pretty good tut. on getting a character from Maya to Unreal. Here's a link directly to it
http://www.jeffparrott.com/mayaut2k4_01.html
But you should also check out the rest of his site, lots of good info.

peas
James Ball

Jeff Parrott · Feb 2005

James, James... now if you put the link that has 2 t's why would you spell it wrong?

Seriously though there's not much set up needed. Whargoul has a great script that will actually create whatever base bones you need in Maya. I would use that and model around the bones so it deforms correctly. Of course that is if you are using the base UT skeletons.

JesterBox · Feb 2005

Thnx alot thats gonna help a giant buttload. Ill send some drawings of my charcter to the pimpin pages later thnx alot.

JesterBox · Feb 2005

ive searched my pc and the internet and i need to get actorX for maya into the plug-ins directory. But i cant seem to find the file. could you plz tell me how to find it thnx. its (C:\Program Files\AliasWavefront\Maya5.0\bin\plug-ins) do i need to start the program maya to put actorX in? Thank you for your time.

Snowfly · Feb 2005

Okay I don't get you. On the very top of the very first page of Jeffro's tut, there's a link to the ActorX download page.

http://udn.epicgames.com/Content/ActorX

You won't be needing that until you've completed your model, unwrapped it, and bound it to a skeleton.

Have fun then.

JesterBox · Feb 2005

thnx

before i begin is thier somthing i need to setup?

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