3D Game Environments: Create Professional 3D Game Worlds, 2nd Edition

From a steamy jungle to a modern city, or even a sci-fi space station, 3D Game Environments is the ultimate resource to help you create AAA quality art for a variety of game worlds. Primarily using Photoshop and 3ds Max, students will learn to create realistic textures from photo source and a variety of techniques to portray dynamic and believable game worlds. With detailed tutorials on creating 3D models, applying 2D art to 3D models, and clear concise advice on issues of efficiency and optimization for a 3D game engine, Luke Ahearn gives you everything students need to make their own realistic game environments.

Table of Contents

SECTION I: The basics
Chapter 1 Game world optimizations
Chapter 2 Three-dimensional concepts
Chapter 3 Shaders and materials

SECTION II: Low-polygon environments with simple shaders
Chapter 4 Planning the low-polygon urban environment
Chapter 5 Modeling the large urban environment
Chapter 6 Texturing the large urban environment

SECTION III: Terrain, foliage, and more advanced asset creation
Chapter 7 Introduction to natural environments
Chapter 8 Terrain
Chapter 9 Filling the world: Trees, plants, rocks, water, and sky
Chapter 10 Modeling and texturing the jungle base
Chapter 11 Focus on the futuristic interior—normal maps and multipass shaders