New Videos: Beginning a project and making lightmaps.

[dclarson]

I’ve created several new videos on how to begin a project and make lightmaps for that project.  The complete project file and walk-through are available for download. Enjoy.

http://www.geartechgames.com/GearTech_Games/Beginning_a_Project/Beginning_a_Project.html

Video Outline:
Performance differences between using In-game lights and Lightmaps.

Beginning a Project.
How to start a basic scene layout in your 3D application.
Laying out a project with boxes using the grid-snapping feature.
Organizing Files and Naming Conventions.

Creating a Lightmap file.
The first UV is the Primary.
The Second UV is the Lightmap.

Creating an FBX file.
Delete all Cameras, Lights and Texture Locators.

Correcting Import Problems in Unity and/or your 3D application.
Merge  all Vertices.
Delete any Solo single point Vertices.
Swapping the Primary and Secondary UV’s inside Unity.

[Hanford]

Awesome. I'll check it out.

[brokenpoly]

Great stuff man! Downloading now & will hopefully have time to watch them at lunchtime

[Goob]

Ditto that. Thanks!

[dclarson]

Thanks for the Comments everyone. I'm glad the videos help people get up to speed.

I've added one more video. Adding Graffiti and talking about seamless textures.

The Crate, Box and barrel textures are omitted from the project file because I purchased them and cannot freely distribute them.

[Goob]

Hey, I just got around to watching the first 3 videos. Great work with them; clearly explained and filled with helpful workflow tips software aside. Thanks.

[Augustum]

Excellent! Thank you!!

[Hans]

great work

[Robert G]

Hello all,

I tried to watch these,… but can’t see any video.
After installing K-Lite Codecs pack, still the same.
Can someone tell me if they could view the video please?

Many thanks,

Robert