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    The document discusses Discreet's 3DS MAX and Character Studio software products and their plans to support next generation game development on the PlayStation platform. It highlights new real-time capabilities in MAXR3, the MAX to PS2 export pipeline options, and Discreet's developer programs.

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    The document discusses Discreet's 3DS MAX and Character Studio software products and their plans to support next generation game development on the PlayStation platform. It highlights new real-time capabilities in MAXR3, the MAX to PS2 export pipeline options, and Discreet's developer programs.

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    3DS MAX R3 / Character

    Studio 2.2

    Next Generation
    PlayStation Pipeline
    Jeff Yates
    Presentation Overview

    ! Brief Perspective

    ! Next Generation
    PlayStation Plans

    ! Technology
    Demonstration

    ! Contact Information
    Mine Shaft
    Who is Discreet? .
    ! Autodesk Discreet =
    Kinetix +
    Discreet Logic

    ! Products
    • 3DS MAX
    • Character Studio
    • Lightscape
    • Edit, Paint/Effect,
    • Inferno, Flame
    MAX Release Review .
    ! Spring 1996
    • MAX R1, CS R1
    ! Fall 1997
    • MAX R2, CS 1.15
    ! Spring 1998
    • MAX 2.5
    ! Fall 1998
    • CS R2
    ! July 1999
    • MAX R3, CS R2.2

    Core Design Ltd


    3D Game Content - the recent past:

    ! Limited Polygon Counts


    ! Limited Textures & Lighting
    ! Custom File Formats (SDK)
    ! Segmented Characters
    ! LOD Levels - Pre-Modeled
    ! Pre-Game Cinematics
    Slavezero
    3D Game Content - Today (pre-NGPS)

    ! More Polygons (some surfs)


    ! Richer Texturing/Lighting
    ! In-house “Art Tools” (SDK)
    ! Single-Mesh Characters
    ! Continuous LOD
    ! 1000’s of assets
    DreamForge Entertainment
    3D Game Content - Tomorrow?

    ! Traditional authoring persists


    + Dynamic Algorithms
    + Higher-order Surfaces
    ! Multi-pass Textures
    ! Level Editors (SDK!)
    ! Source Code Access
    ! Efficient Pipelines Lucas Arts
    New Real-time Extensions in MAXR3

    ! Game-specific, Procedural Asset Creation


    ! Event-driven Reactions, Behaviors
    ! Scene-culling Pre-visualization
    ! Asset Management Foundation
    ! Expanded Run-time Attribute Assignment
    ! Vertex Pre-lighting and Painting
    ! 99 Texture mapping channels
    Discreet Mission for NG PlayStation
    ! Character Pipeline Focus

    ! Component Strategy

    ! Royalty-Free Use for


    GAME /Plug-in
    DEVELOPERS

    ! Support / Integrate with


    Middleware Peers
    XL TRANSLAB
    Source Code in the MAX R3 Box...
    ! Bezier Surfaces
    • “Edit Patch” Modifier

    ! Character Skin Deformation


    • “SKIN” Modifier

    ! Soft-body dynamics
    • “FLEX” Modifier

    ! Facial Animation
    • “Morph” Modifier
    MAX/CS -> PS2 Pipeline Options
    Custom
    Custom Export
    File
    CS MAXR3
    (System)
    PS2 Export
    PC Level Editing PS2

    Component
    Component Reader
    Component Reader
    Component
    PS2 Game
    Engine
    System System
    MAX Modifiers as Run-time Components

    MAXR3 Custom Export


    File
    Skin
    Flex Skin UI
    PC
    Patches Skin Alg
    Reader
    Game Engine

    Flex Patches
    PS2
    Skin
    On the Developer Network...

    ! Game-Ready Versions
    • Patches, Skin, and Flex
    ! No MAX-specific references
    ! No graphical UI code
    ! Generic C++
    ! ADN Members Only
    Demo: Bezier Patches with Dynamics

    MAXR3 Custom Export


    File
    Skin
    Flex
    PC Patches

    Reader
    Nemo
    Flex Patches
    PS2
    Skin
    About Nemo’s “NeMo”

    Www.nemo
    Www.nemo.com/
    nemo.com/
    Real-
    Real-time Game Development
    Environment

    •Full
    Full SDK
    •Plug
    Plug-
    Plug-in Behaviors
    •Plug
    Plug-
    Plug-in 3D Engines
    •Access
    Access run-
    run-time loop, events, database
    •Open
    Open Import / Export
    Developer Program
    Autodesk Developer Network
    $500/year for one game programmer

    •Extended “service” contract for MAXSDK


    •Direct access to our engineers
    •Debug build of MAX
    •Closer relationship with Kinetix--we get to
    “know” you
    •Direct access to us--help us help you better
    ADN Technical Support

    http://support.ktx
    http://support.ktx.com/~200
    ktx.com/~200
    Anyone can access this site!

    “Next Generation Games”

    •ADN members: direct, private, timely


    •Non-ADN members: “read only” access
    •Support from growing MAX developer
    community
    Discreet Mission for the Future
    ! Real-time Character Focus
    ! Strong Art Tools
    ! Open development foundation
    ! Release Algorithms
    ! Large-Scale Productions
    ! Affordable
    ! Complete
    The End
    MAXR3/CS2.2 For Artists...
    ! Workflow & Usability
    ! Asset Management, Collaboration, & Data Sharing
    ! Mature Modeling - polygons, Beziers, Nurbs
    ! Character Articulation - multiple solutions, mocap
    ! Character Skin Binding & Deformation
    ! Character Skin Dynamics
    ! Comprehensive Texture Mapping, Unwrap
    ! Multi-texture set-up with 99 texture mapping channels
    ! WYSIWYG Vertex Pre-lighting and Painting
    ! Customization, Extensibility, and Access
    MAXR3 / CS 2.2 For Programmers...
    ! Skin deformation - “skin” source code
    ! Dynamics - “Flex” source code
    ! Morphing source code
    ! Particle Systems source code
    ! 100’s of new SDK functions
    ! Programmer’s Documentation
    ! Support through “ADN” Program
    ! Customization, Extensibility, and Access
    ! COM, DCOM
    Character Studio R2.2
    ! Fast, Stable, Blended Forward / Inverse Kinematics
    ! Quaternions
    ! Layers
    ! Motion Capture
    ! Motion Blending
    ! Motion Mapping
    ! Transferable Skin Bindings
    ! Comprehensive Export
    MAX/CS -> NG PS Pipeline Options
    ! Level-Editing Features during Authoring
    ! File Format Export
    ! COM/DCOM Interface
    ! Run-time Components (w/wo source code)
    ! Run-time Systems (w/wo source code)
    ! Platforms (aka “Engines”)
    Where do we go from here?
    ! Best-of-Breed 3D Content
    Creation Tools
    ! Run-time Ready Algorithms,
    Techniques
    ! Expanded Source Code Access
    ! New Tools for Building
    Dynamic Content
    ! Production Pipelines
    ! Strong Technology
    Partnerships
    Level-Editing Capabilities in MAXR3
    ! Game-specific Procedural Object Creation
    ! Game-specific Materials
    ! Game-specific Particle System Creation
    ! Event-driven Reactions, Behaviors
    ! Scene-culling Pre-visualization
    • LOD Switching
    • Continuous LOD Plugins (optional)
    ! Structured External Asset References (XREF’s)
    ! Asset Management Foundation
    ! Assignment of Run-time Attributes
    Developer Programs
    Paul Perreault
    Developer Relations Manager, Kinetix

    •Manage Developer Program


    •Make sure you get the tools/info you need
    •Your point of contact

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