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Please take note! For mod developers working with Unreal Tournament 2003, this documentation is meant to be a starting point for your own explorations into UT2003, not a definitive guide. There will be differences between the documentation here and the product in your hands, and you may have to figure out quite a bit for yourself. Check out the Unreal Tournament 2003 page in the Unreal Powered area for links to community sites if you're having problems. UDN is a licensee support site, and cannot provide technical support or game-specific assistance to end users. ModelingTableOfContents Licensees can log in. Interested in the Unreal engine? Check out the licensing page. Questions about UDN itself? Contact the UDN Staff. Modeling/Art Table of Contents Document Summary: A table of contents for tutorials on creating skeletal mesh art assets for Unreal Ed. Document Changelog: Original author was Tom Lin (DemiurgeStudios). Modeling/Art Table of Contents Start Here. Modeling Example Models Texturing Rigging/Animation Exporting with ActorX ActorX Max ActorX Maya Obsolete/Deprecated Docs Start Here. This document is a guide to all the docs related to getting artwork into the Unreal Engine, from static meshes to textures to animations. Note that this document does not cover level creation. The guides are arranged beginning with modeling and ending with exporting to a file format that Unreal can import. To Jump to a section, click on the following links: Modeling Texturing Rigging and Animation Exporting Modeling This section includes information on how to efficiently model for the Unreal engine. It also contains useful information about Unreal-specific quirks, such as smoothing, refpose, etc. UnrealModeling Smooth Skinned Models Articulation Eyes Eyelids Tongue Refpose Smoothing Groups In-Game Perspective Unreal-Engine Specific Tips Clipping Single Sided Polys Holes Comparing Detail Levels Example Models This document contains information about two high poly models created for the Unreal Engine. The document details the creation of these models, explains why design decisions were made, and links to .zip files that contain all of the models, textures, animations, .PSK/.PSA files, etc. UnrealDemoModels Modeling Eye Hands Feet Mapping/Texturing Crossing Alpha Triangles Texture Size/Number Swapping Skins Bones/Enveloping Reusing Models/Skeletons Using the UDN Model Using the UDN Skeleton Texturing This doc includes information on the range of texture formats that Unreal will accept, as well as when how best to use them. Links to tools that can be used to create certain formats are also included. UnrealTexturing Powers of 2 Texture Formats 32 bit RGBA (TGA) DirectX Texture Compression 8 Bit Palettized 8 Bit Palettized with Alpha DXTC Tools Nvidia DXT Compression Tools Microsoft DXTex Tool Bright Alpha Channels Appropriate Texture Sizes Clothing/Skin Swapping 2K3 Team Colors Rigging/Animation This document contains general information about setting up a skeleton in your finished models, with specific information dealing with correct initialization and Unreal capabilities. SkeletalSetup Designing a Skeleton Wasted Bones Shoulders/Elbows Neck Highly Articulated Face Optimizing Your Mesh Initializing Physique Misc Info Skeletons without Biped Adding Bones to Biped Rigid Mesh Linking Unlinking Meshes from Physique Null Vertex Weight Blending Animations Bone Attachments Animation Notifications UDN Skeltons vs UT2K3 Skeletons This doc contains a technical explanation of the vertex animation process. UnrealVertexAnimation You may want to consider using Impersonator for lip synch on your models. To get started, take a look at these documents. ImpersonatorHeadRigging ImpersonatorTutorial ImpersonatorUserGuide Karma Physics (Ragdoll) is also an option in the Unreal Engine. For a thorough description and explanation, see these docs. KarmaReference ImportingKarmaActors UsingKarmaActors KarmaAuthoringTool RagdollsInUT2003 KarmaExampleUT2003 ExampleMapsKarmaColosseum Exporting with ActorX ActorX is the plugin that sends model and animation data from your 3D modeling package into a format that Unreal can understand. These documents will walk you through the exporting process, as well as explain the tool windows in depth. This document will simply point you to current versions of the ActorX plugin for Max and Maya. ActorX ActorX Max This doc covers ActorX for 3D Studio Max. ActorXMaxTutorial ActorX Maya This doc covers ActorX for Maya. ActorXMayaTutorial Obsolete/Deprecated Docs Looking for an old doc? Here is a list of the previously available docs, but bear in mind that the information provided within is no longer current, and may not be correct. UnrealModelTutorial ActorXTutorial ActorXPhysiqueNotes WarfareSkeletalNotes ObjToASEConverter MayaBrushExport VertexAnimationWith3ds2unr

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