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Torque Tutorial Series - Level Of Detail Creation

Name:	Steve Adamson
Date Posted:	Dec 03, 2006
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NOTE: This tutorial uses MAYA 7

Torque Tutorial Series - Level Of Detail Creation

Here is the third tutorial in the series, this covers the creation and export of LOD's (level of detail models). Lod's play a very important role, in maintaining r-speeds or frames per second in your gaming projects. So it is crucial to have these on almost ALL of your in game models.

The tutorial covers:

- LOD Mesh Creation
- Exporting
- Testing in Show Tool Pro

Click Here To Download The Tutorial

Other Tutorials:
Torque Tutorial Series - Transparent Model Textures
Torque Tutorial Series - Collision & Model Export

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President
Gear Worx Productions
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Unsung Zero (Dec 03, 2006 at 16:08 GMT)

You are just pounding out the tutorials, aren't you?

Jeppie (Dec 03, 2006 at 17:01 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

yay! you rock, thanks Steve!

Affectworks (Dec 03, 2006 at 17:07 GMT)

Your tutorial is nice as always. I do want to mention, though, that once you get into more complex objects such as characters, cars, whatever then Maya's poly reduction tool can and will make some iffy changes, so be ready to go in and hack at your model to make it look as good as possible. In fact, I would go so far as to say that when you are building something more complex, it might just be a good idea to save LOD versions of your object as you go along building the highest LOD.

Just a friendly heads up for people that might go "wtf happened" when they see what Maya does.

Cheerio!
Fredrik S

Steve Adamson (Dec 03, 2006 at 18:51 GMT)

@Affectworks; Yes that is very true, and thanks for pointing that out, I forgot to mention it haha, Maya likes to break your models if they are high res or more complex, for simple none complex shapes the "reduce" option works fine. Since these tutorials are more aimed to the beginner or new comer to Torque.

@Arthur Dent; Your welcome, I am glad your finding these helpful.

@Unsung Zero; Yup I am hahaha, I am just trying to help is all.

Take care.

- Steve Adamson
President
Gear Worx Productions
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Sventhors (Jan 14, 2007 at 17:51 GMT)

Thanks for the tutorials. They really great. Are there more coming?

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