GAME 197: Game Asset and Engine Integration

• Create Game ready assets that are optimized for optimal performance in Game Engine.
• Create and Connect Props to in game shading networks.
• Analyze and apply optimized Maps for Texturing Mapping
• Create lighting to test shading networks and textures.

1. Naming Conventions
   1. Proper file types
   2. Proper naming conventions
   3. Project creation
   4. Package / Kit Creation and Optimization
2. Tri/quad mesh creation and manipulation
   1. Representing polygon meshes
   2. Creating composite meshes
   3. Techniques for maximizing quality while minimizing vertex/edge count
   4. Collision detection
3. UV Mapping and Unwrapping surfaces and meshes
   1. Unwrap, unfold, relax and normalize UV sets
   2. Use Lattice, UV smudge tool and smooth UV tool
   3. Cut and Sew UV's to add, subtract and normalize a mesh
   4. Change and effect UV Layout to maximize the texture space based on the powers of 2.
   5. Overlay and scale UV's to maximize texture space
   6. Relative and absolute coordinates
4. Model props, assets and environments to specific size and poly restrictions based on the industry
   • Utilize all the polygon modeling tools to create assets
   • Export of files and type

Practicum Transfer Maps

1. Ambient Occlusion Maps
2. Light Maps
3. Normal Maps
4. Displacement Maps

Practicum Textures

1. Specular Maps
2. Opacity / Alpha Maps
3. Illumination Maps
4. Roughness Maps

Practicum Shader Networks

1. Lambert
2. Blinn
3. Phong/ Phong E
4. Ramp Shader
5. Anisotropic

Practicum Lighting

1. Ambient Lights
2. Directional
3. Point
4. Spot
5. Area
6. Volume
7. Skydome
8. Mesh Light
9. Photometric

Practicum 3D Assets

1. Technical Requirements
2. 3D Sculpting
3. Import Properties

Practicum UV Maps and Texture Baking

1. Types of UV Modifiers
   1. Planar
   2. Spherical
   3. Cylindrical
   4. Camera Projection
   5. Normal Projection