Messiah's Crash Course: Messiah + Lightwave + Maya + Unity Tutorial (Free!)

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Posted By: MaDDoX
Post Time: 03-05-2011 at 05:55 PM
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If you're interested in integrating pMG's Messiah Studio (which got recently sold for amazingly cheap $10) and its powerful animation features in your existing pipeline, instead of simply using it as a plugin with non-editable animations, these tutorials are for you. It provides a quickstart (well, it's a crash course after all!) on how to use Messiah, setup it's interface and use its powerful FBX exporter.

Instead of repeating what's already explained in the many videos available on pmG's site (www.projectmessiah.com/x6/videos.html), like how to create and tweak a bone deformer or how to use the MDD file format, in these videos I've opted to fill in some of the gaps for Messiah newcomers.

It's worth mentioning that the weight map creation from Messiah's procedural weighting is nothing short of stellar, for that one feature learning it will already provide a big boost to your animated character production speed. Being able to use those amazing skin weights with other incredible solutions like Maya's Dual Quaternion Skinning and Lightwave's IKBooster is the icing on the cake.

Last but not least I quickly go through the process of importing the Messiah-generated animation into the excellent Unity real-time engine, including the position and adjustment of cameras.

Interested already? Go for it - as a little "thank you" and incentive to the community these tutorials are free! Enjoy. Links to the videos and files below, including an "IK-boosted" Messiah-imported Lightwave scene:

http://themaddoxcorner.blogspot.com...o-tutorial.html

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