| Building Interactive Worlds in 3D: Virtual Sets and Pre-Visualization for Games, Film & the Web [With CDROM] Contributor(s): Gauthier, Jean-Marc (Author) |
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ISBN: 0240806220 ISBN-13: 9780240806228 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $66.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2005 Annotation: In Building Interactive Worlds in 3D readers will find turnkey tutorials that detail all the steps required to build simulations and interactions, utilize virtual cameras, virtual actors (with self-determined behaviors), and real-time physics including gravity, collision, and topography. With the free software demos included, 3D artists and developers can learn to build a fully functioning prototype. The book is dynamic enough to give both those with a programming background as well as those who are just getting their feet wet challenging and engaging tutorials in virtual set design, using Virtools. Other software discussed is: Lightwave, and Maya. The book is constructed so that, depending on your project and design needs, you can read the text or interviews independently and/or use the book as reference for individual tutorials on a project-by-project basis. Each tutorial is followed by a short interview with a 3D graphics professional in order to provide insight and additional advice on particular interactive 3D techniques???from user, designer, artist, and producer perspectives. * Create interactive, 3D sets - virtual buildings, terrains, as well as other virtual prototypes for games, film/video pre-visualization, and virtual reality design for the Web from sketch to fully-working prototype * Interviews with experts in the field provide additional insight into each tutorial * Dozens of tutorials on CD-ROM, and dozens more on author's website |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Games & Activities | Video & Electronic - Games & Activities | Optical Illusions |
| Dewey: 794.816 |
| LCCN: 2004061933 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 7.54" W x 9.72" (2.31 lbs) 446 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Building Interactive Worlds in 3D readers will find turnkey tutorials that detail all the steps required to build simulations and interactions, utilize virtual cameras, virtual actors (with self-determined behaviors), and real-time physics including gravity, collision, and topography. With the free software demos included, 3D artists and developers can learn to build a fully functioning prototype. The book is dynamic enough to give both those with a programming background as well as those who are just getting their feet wet challenging and engaging tutorials in virtual set design, using Virtools. Other software discussed is: Lightwave, and Maya. The book is constructed so that, depending on your project and design needs, you can read the text or interviews independently and/or use the book as reference for individual tutorials on a project-by-project basis. Each tutorial is followed by a short interview with a 3D graphics professional in order to provide insight and additional advice on particular interactive 3D techniques-from user, designer, artist, and producer perspectives. |
