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[SPY46]

hay im looking into getting into the art aspect of video games, more directly the CH design.

im a fair artist and can draw some nice warriors/knights and im going to be taking a collage course in a few months.

can any one tell me what artistic programs are used in general to do this, i only want to try and get a heads up on what i might be working with.

ie: 3d max, maya or what ever.

what program was used to make the guys for WC3 diablo or even SC, was it 3d max or some thing else?

i hope some one can give me some sort of a hint or some thing.

 

[Kimbo]

1. Sc, the units and such are sprites, the model of the sprites were made in max, same with diablo 1-2.

2. Warcraft models 3 were also made in max.

3.And for artistic programs go to the art section, for the 3d programs go to the model and animation section.

4. max=$3000, Dont bother asking for a free/illegal max or such you will have to do that yourself. Wc3 only works with max 4.2 and 5, gmax is the game model creation version of max which is free but has horrible plugins for max.

5.And it depends what game you want to working or will be, there are many plugins and exporters on the net.

 

[SPY46]

hay thanks, are there any other programs that are used to create guys ect for games, reguardless of who.

are there any other programs that can be used?

 

[Kimbo]

Milkshape is used for games like quake and unreal etc, Other things that people used are maya and blender, although in todays gaming industry people commonly use max or maya.

 

[SPY46]

sweeet thank you it really helps me out

 

[infuzions]

I hope you make a cool game for me to play D

 

[Mechanical Man]

Sc, the units and such are sprites, the model of the sprites were made in max, same with diablo 1-2

So, you mean that the units' graphical image in Starcraft are actually models, which were then taken snapshots from different angles?

Because older Comand&Conquer games (ex. Tiberian sun) have their units' graphic images stored as .shp which is 2d graphical format.

 

[Kimbo]

The sprites in sc were yes, snapshots from a model taken in different angles. And Some of them are stored in certain formats, im not sure for sc..

 

[Mechanical Man]

I have never thought of that.

After this I presume that they made animations in max and made a video.

Access to those models would greatly reduce the work of Project Revolution.

 

[Daminon]

Here you can find a rendering of the model used for the destruction minions in Diablo II.

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo2exp/monsters/baalminion-render.shtml

 

[Kimbo]

yeah, they made all the anims in max, and recorded them from different angles, and PR has made soem great work...although currently they had an issue and some ingame vids of it is on youtube and video.google.

EDIT: and dam, thats pretty detailed just to be turned into a sprite

 

[Daminon]

Just to add a little interresting thing, the monsters in Doom were mostly sculptured and not modellerd.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Adrian_Carmack_cropped.jpg

 

[Mechanical Man]

This is for old Doom?

 

[Daminon]

Yes the good ol' one.

 

[SPY46]

lol i almost forgot about this threat.

ya i want to create the guys ect for video games, so far i mostly do warriors, tanks, jets and a few space battle ships (on paper) thou my warriors ... lets just say that by there looks ... even Diablo him self would RUN! AND NEVER LOOK BACK

but that doesnt mean i dont have a few ideas for games