1. Modeling and Animation A brief overview. Amanda Chaffin

2. Modeling CB Model Pro – ► Free! ► Easy to model ► High poly count ► Cannot import (so save the project) ► Texturing is weird ► Non-standard axis ► Painting is limited

3. Modeling Con’t Milkshape – ► Free 30 day trial! ► Low poly ► Crashes a lot (save often) ► Allows triangle manipulations ► Handles animation construction ► Exports to DirectX

4. UV Mapping UVMapper – ► Free! ► Simplistic interface ► Creates map of model  Paint model  Import back into modeler program

5. Bones and Meshes Bones (joints) – ► Must have for animation ► Easy to set up Meshes – ► Vertices, not faces ► Rename joints (make life easier) ► Assign vertices to joints ► Test and correct as often as you save!

6. Animations ► Set keyframe ► Select joint(s) ► Rotate joint(s) ► Set keyframe ► Move to next ► Milkshape interpolates for you 2 3 1

7. XNA Setup ► http://www.codeplex.com/ http://www.codeplex.com/ ► Download.zip files for the installation Add ► Reference to Xclna.Xna.Animationx86 ► Content pipeline reference to Xclna.Xna.Animation.Content.dll ► Content files and XML to the project

8. Export to DirectX DirectX(JT) Ignore Geometry, check on options, matrix, interpolations, leave all else alone

9. Add your Model ► Add models, textures to XNA project ► Change model properties (very important) ► Change code to new model name ► Run game

10. The Wonders of XML ► Animations go into the XML file ► Milkshape - single animation sequence ► XML file allows for multiple animations per file by associating a name with a series (or set) of keyframes

11. Tutorials ► http://www.josh.ch/joshch/tutorials/milksha pe,welcome.html http://www.josh.ch/joshch/tutorials/milksha pe,welcome.html http://www.josh.ch/joshch/tutorials/milksha pe,welcome.html ► http://webpages.uncc.edu/~empowell/stuff/ UVMAppertutorial.pdf http://webpages.uncc.edu/~empowell/stuff/ UVMAppertutorial.pdf http://webpages.uncc.edu/~empowell/stuff/ UVMAppertutorial.pdf ► http://www.codeplex.com/animationcompon ents http://www.codeplex.com/animationcompon ents http://www.codeplex.com/animationcompon ents