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 Create Professional 3D Game Worlds
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By
Luke Ahearn, Luke Ahearn has over 15 years of professional game development experience and has served in lead positions such as designer, producer,
and art director on 7 published game titles, including Dead Reckoning and America's Army and worked as a background artist at EA. He
has authored 7 books on game development (including Focal's 3D Game Textures, and 3D Game Environments) and ran his own computer game
company for 10 years. Currently, he is the Art Director and partner of ICPU.
Description
The ultimate resource to help you create triple-A quality art for a variety of game worlds; 3D Game Environments offers detailed tutorials
on creating 3D models, applying 2D art to 3D models, and clear concise advice on issues of efficiency and optimization for a 3D game
engine. Using Photoshop and 3ds Max as his primary tools, Luke Ahearn explains how to create realistic textures from photo source and
uses a variety of techniques to portray dynamic and believable game worlds.
Audience
Artists modeling and texturing game worlds at the intermediate level.
Contents
THE BASICS; Optimizations; 3D Concepts; Shaders; LOW POLYGON ENVIRONMENTS WITH SIMPLE SHADERS; Introduction to the low polygon large urban
area; Modeling the Large Urban Environment; Texturing the Large Urban Environment; TERRAIN, FOLIAGE, AND MORE ADVANCED ASSET CREATION;
Introduction to the Outdoor Environment and More Advanced Asset Creation; Terrain in Virtual Environments; Outdoor Asset Creation; The
Jungle Base, an exercise using outdoor and advanced assets; Normal Mapping and advanced shader usage
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Paperback, 400 pages, publication date: MAY-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80895-6
ISBN-10: 0-240-80895-9
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
Price: Order form
EUR 41.95
USD 49.95
GBP 28.99
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Last update: 26 Aug 2008
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