Plan for Danny Ngan

Maya2DTS Reference Guide and Tutorials site now available

I had a bit of free time over the past couple of days, so I decided to finish off as much of the Maya2DTS docs as I could. I ended up getting quite a bit done thanks to the very thorough Max2DTS docs written by Joe Maruschak. The majority of the docs are translated directly from the Max2DTS docs with some changes and additions here and there for clarity, updating, etc.

You can find them here:

http://www.dannyngan.com/torque/maya2dts/

The Maya2DTS docs are fairly detailed now, consisting of 2 separate section: a general reference guide and some basic tutorials.

The general reference section contains much of the detailed, technical, nitty-gritty stuff that technical artists (like myself) like to learn about. Despite its length and technical nature, I think it is reading for all Maya artists creating artwork for Torque, just like the Max2DTS docs are essential reading for Max artists.

The basic tutorials section is actually the former version of the Maya2DTS docs. I cleaned up a few things, and added a Character Basics tutorial. It's nothing fancy, just an animated box, but it does cover some of the foundation concepts artists need to know in order to build exportable characters.

There are still a few things that I want to add, of course, but those will have to wait for another day.

Because the Maya2DTS exporter is still in beta, the information contained in the Maya2DTS docs are still a work in progress. Feel free to send me feedback on the docs.