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1. 3D World 3dsmax skinning tutorial

   

   Topic by MoP · Jan 2009 · Home› Technical Talk

   So issue #114 (March) of 3D World magazine has just come out, and I had a 6-page tutorial in that explaining the basics of skinning a character and exporting it into Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars. The nice folks over at Future Publishing have put up the video tutorials I recorded, they're available here:…

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   Reply by artstream · Jan 2009 · Home› Technical Talk

   Really nice tutorials MOP. I have a general question about the model's topology. You created the topology to flow with the muscles of the body, and the result is pretty nice. Is this a common practice for most characters, clothed or not? Most models I've seen that are clothed just have the usual topology.

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   Reply by TheSplash · Jan 2009 · Home› Technical Talk

   Nicely done tutorial, you moved at a good speed and were interesting to listen to which is great because its hard to learn when people mumble in a monotone voice. I remember in an older thread you said that in ETQW you used dual quaternion skinning for characters but it was just an afterthought. Is there anything you would…

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   Reply by Japhir · Jan 2009 · Home› Technical Talk

   great tutorial! this should have been around when i first learned skinning :D . It not only taught me some new tricks, but it also made me look up the word "naught". (I only knew zero, null and nil ;) ). haha EDIT: btw, do you need max 2009 for the scenes? somehow i get an error when trying to open them up in max 9.

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   Reply by MoP · Jan 2009 · Home› Technical Talk

   Japhir: Max 2008 - sorry. TheSplash: Heh, I planned out some of what I was going to say before recording each video, usually I'm not very good at explaining things :( We do have a variable for enabling dual quaternion skinning in ETQW (it's off by default, I think), I haven't really considered weighting anything…

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   Reply by PixelGoat · Jan 2009 · Home› Technical Talk

   I think I will have to buy this issue ;) Polycount is taking over 3D World!

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   Reply by almighty_gir · Jan 2009 · Home› Technical Talk

   downloading the videos now. thanks for sharing MoP!

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   Reply by kodde · Jan 2009 · Home› Technical Talk

   Sweet, now that's what I call an honorable mention!

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   Reply by Slum · Jan 2009 · Home› Technical Talk

   Cool! Congrats on the article :)

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    Reply by Psyk0 · Jan 2009 · Home› Technical Talk

    Thanks, should be very informative.