T0479 - Digital Tutors - Pipeline Development with Maya and XNA

Learn the fundamental workflow for next-gen game development and innovative techniques for seamlessly integrating Maya and XNA for game creation. Contains nearly 5 hours of project-based training for technical artists learning the methods of creating game content using XNA and Maya.Popular highlights include:

• XNA Development Overview


• Interfacing with Keyboard and Gamepad


• Building Controller Systems


• Controller Vibration


• Exporting and Loading Static Meshes from Maya


• Exporting Animated Characters from Maya


• Moving and Turning a Character


• Object-oriented Programming with Bullets and Targets


• Baking Textures in Maya


• Deriving Bounding Boxes from Maya


• Collision Detection with Bounding boxes


• Collision Detection with Rays


• Building a Custom Animation Player


• Switching and Blending Between Animations


• Chase Cameras


• Camera Shakes


• Drawing Text

Lesson Outline:

1.	Project review and setup	6:57
2.	Building the Controller class	6:33
3.	Getting Keyboard and Gamepad states	7:25
4.	Creating Actions to store keys and buttons	7:45
5.	Adding flags to Actions to check press and release	8:29
6.	Making a List of Actions	8:05
7.	Checking an Action based on its name	6:43
8.	Finishing up our Control system	8:13
9.	Moving our character forward	4:40
10.	Spinning our character around	7:44
11.	Setting run and walk speeds	2:22
12.	Creating world textures with Maya Batch Bake	7:25
13.	Exporting and loading the world	7:40
14.	Breaking our world into boxes	6:10
15.	Extracting Bounding Box information in Maya	10:01
16.	Collision Detection between the character and world	8:23
17.	Implementing a Chase-Cam	6:45
18.	Exporting the final animated mesh (part 1)	8:34
19.	Exporting the final animated mesh (part 2)	7:23
20.	Fixing bone animation twitches	5:07
21.	Alternate baking methods	9:25
22.	Creating a Clip Player	5:10
23.	Setting a clip, start time and end time	5:00
24.	Getting keyframe values based on time	7:00
25.	Updating the Clip Player	5:45
26.	Using the Clip Player in the Game	5:15
27.	Playing a specific animation range	8:50
28.	Coding a BlendTransforms function	7:21
29.	Blending in Action	7:48
30.	Triggering other Animations	8:00
31.	Shaking the camera with every footstep	5:55
32.	Breaking it down - the Transform class	7:16
33.	Breaking it down - the Shape class	7:47
34.	Creating and drawing bullets	7:09
35.	Flushing out the Bullet class	7:50
36.	Shooting from the gun-arm	4:44
37.	Acquiring targets	9:44
38.	Removing bullets based on age and world collision	8:55
39.	Hitting targets and increasing the score	6:34
40.	Displaying the score	6:30
41.	Returning targets and glowing bullets	4:35
42.	Vibration Feedback	5:34
	Total Run Time:	4:54:06