Discount on learning Maya I have found

[epsilonion]

Well i have been a bit bored the past day or to and was looking for training courses online and came across this one for Maya

Its a beginners course for Autodesk Maya for £36 (usually £45).

See what you think.. if your wanting to create your own game assets and environments and dont know where to start.

https://www.udemy.com/learn-maya-for-beginners/

[lordalmighty1]

well, I got the course for basic maya modelling today (last day of promo)

just wondering though, I need to purchase maya aswell right?. £30 for a month seems abit much but compared to the years price I guess its reasonable lol..

thanks for the info btw this will help me somewhat in getting models I want for the engine and game I plan to make.. just hope I can get it into my head right hahaha..



edit, looking into this maya software but alittle confused.. what should I use maya or maya lite lol? the difference in price is quite a lot for 1 month, £30 for lite and £200+ for maya didn't see much info on the course itself any help appreciated thanks

[epsilonion]

No if you go one to the autodesk website and register as a student you get it free..

for the school etc just put in your course or something lol...

[lordalmighty1]

ah, ok cool thanks I have it installed now
much appreciated

[epsilonion]

I think you get a 3 year license as a student, can not remember tbh...

If you have any textures that you have grabbed from the web converting to normal, AO, Spec etc let me know I will get them done asap for you.

[lordalmighty1]

thanks m8, will do .

have just finished making a toy train, from the lessons so far, sadly it jumps to animation and does not cover texturing of the train itself.. that is covered in a different lesson set with other models I will have to make lol.
ohwell but it has been fun so far if not a little frustration with myself and my older comp with less ram crashing the software, have switched over to my newer pc with 16gb ram and had no issues so that's a plus.. still would of been nice to have a textured train lesson to show off hahaha..

[epsilonion]

There black Friday sale has started already and the lessons are very cheap, now is the time to buy extra ones..

Doing good there mate, the texturing part is easy until you get into the nodes then its a bit more involved with a steep learning curve..

Well i found the texturing a pain in the ass when it comes to nodes but the results can be well wort it.

Keep it up and you will soon get used to the software.

[lordalmighty1]

yeah I just picked up a £200 course for £11 lol.. a total guide to game making and coding I think it was should be helpful even if it does use unity as the engine I can take what I learn and apply it to skyline to some degree at least .. and as training in games making modelling and coding is needed its well worth the 11 quid to try it all out, though 480+ lessons over 70 hours will probably get stretched to 3x that time frame with me hahaha, I have learning difficulties to say the least lmao.. but hopefully I get it all and such

again much appreciated for the udemy link..


thanks also, yeah I bet some of the texturing is a pain lol.
still I believe you when you say well worth it


on the subject of modelling though, where if anywhere to get good reference images for sculpting the models like that picture in my screenshot used ( the yellow background train)? any advice welcome or links to good resources for modelling thanks.

[StarFire]

nice one LA your train is looking great. Your doing way better than me on Maya. I used max for years but it feel like I am on a cad program where as maya seems more game like. So trying to learn maya when I get some spare time, lol spare time!

One bit of advice I can offer is look for tutorials on low poly game assets as this is a different technique to high poly and low poly will be game ready

[epsilonion]

One bit of advice I can offer is look for tutorials on low poly game assets as this is a different technique to high poly and low poly will be game ready

What I did was learn to high poly then watched the free YouTube tutorials about projection and high low poly, I think once you have high poly nailed then low poly just comes naturally.

There having a sale at the moment £10 a lesson, even expensive ones are a tenner.

TBH I preferred Max, I think its more versatile but Maya is aimed more at indie and gaming.. (saying that my version of max is old and I mean old) lol...

One thing I will say is that I with they would bring back the short key for extrude, its just annoying now.

[lordalmighty1]

1 finished model with animation and batch rendering stage 1 of the course is complete yay me lol..
now I just have to figure out the other 2 stages and such

oh and the export to fbx with shaders applied I guess aswell..

[epsilonion]

looking good.
not done anything what so ever myself, I picked up a bug and feel so crap now...
hope it goes away so I can finish the examples for the API.

[lordalmighty1]

thanks m8, hope you shake the bug sooner then later

[SolarPortal]

@la1, Nice one, coming along quickly

@liam, we ourselves seem to constantly be hit by virus's also, so i hope you feel better soon

[lordalmighty1]

thanks sp m8, took 2 hours to batch render though 200 frames for animation.. lol

I have no idea how to export it though as an fbx, so for now as the course doe snot cover exporting in any form I guess it stays where it is as a screenshot lol

[epsilonion]

Since you have a educational license you may as well grab Mudbox (a cheaper version of Zbrush), it is a sculpting tool..
Mudbox download

I am not that good at sculpting and get annoyed with it lol..

Once you have finished that tutorial, there is a good one that goes quite slow for gaming environments, and one for unwrapping the UV's. After unwrapping them take them into your favorite painting app to make the textures (or just send the models to me with the deffuse map and I can create the Normal, AO, Spec and roughness maps for you..

These below are 3DS Max tutorials but the principles are the same.

Make Modeling - Modular Room Sections -



Unwrapping the Modular Room Sections


Create a game asset from scratch (MAYA)


Other great tutorials.
Character Rigging in Maya
Create a character (3DS Max)
Baking highpoly to lowpoly (MAYA)
Baking highpoly to lowpoly (MAYA) again
Baking highpoly to lowpoly (MAYA) again
Create Game Assets fast (MAYA)
Unwrapping (MAYA)

[SolarPortal]

very useful.

Exporting as FBX in maya is same as max. "File > Export > Choose FBX > Fill in options like/( embed media if the textures are not in your folder, export animations), then press ok".

Please bear in mind, that the FBX importer for skyline is best worked with vertices counts of under 65535. This is because of the limit of 16bit index buffers. 32bit buffers can use up to 4 million vertices i think ... and the last time we tried it didnt work too well lol

[lordalmighty1]

thanks guys, yeah I will think about the poly/verts count etc when im done with the maya course..

on a side note, I have picked up 2 new courses.. both for ue4 but mainly for the c++ coding lessons they provide and game making practicle lessons to apply the scripts to an environment like. so far I have picked up over 500£ worth of courses now for less then £50 thanks again to you liam m8 for the info on this stuff

cant wait to fill my brain with useful info for game development instead of winging it all the time lol.

[epsilonion]

That's no problem mate just glad to help out ..

[SolarPortal]

thats cool Learning about Game dev instead of winging it will allow you to produce results faster...
We are here if you need help

[lordalmighty1]

made this today, still a wip of course but slowly getting through this modelling course.. also made 3 books aswell but didn't screenshot them will show more as and when done then its onto the coding c++ lessons sometime next week if I get more time like. the hourglass has a extra part you cant see in screenshot.. some sand effect part lol not sure yet how that's gonna turn out but I will get there at some point.. uv mapping and texturing stuff hasn't been covered yet in the course so.. but its been fun so far

[SolarPortal]

excellent Happy to see your enjoying it and moving forwards too. Keep it up!

onto the coding c++ lessons sometime next week if I get more time like

This will be fun for you c++ is a great way of understanding code flow, classes, structs and memory management. Once you get your head around c++, then all the other scripting languages come naturally like lua . Of course, each language has its own way of managing data and handling classes/structs plus syntax. But coding/scripting on any language is pretty much the same or thats the way i see it lol

Keep going and you'll be a pro on skyline in no time

[lordalmighty1]

Keep going and you'll be a pro on skyline in no time

LOL, I hope so sp m8 that would be nice . sadly I think no time is a bit wishful lol probably closer to 6months by timei finish these 3 courses hahaha but thanks for the support and encouragement

[SolarPortal]

haha no problem

[epsilonion]

C++ wow last time I used that was in university years ago. Shit many many years ago lol.

You will get used to it quite quick mate at the time I picked it up really quickly and made a stock/inventry/pos software with it and a accounting software but I haven't touched it since so it would be like learning it all over again.

There are some really good books out there maybe go to the library for a reference book one you have gotten used to it and there are some good YouTube videos out there that will help also