Truespace 3 and 4 Creature Creations

Key Features:

• Primer on new features of versions 3 and 4
  
• The basics: tools, creature design elements, new features, and how to remove the "jointed" look from your models
  
• Creating, modeling, and animating your creatures
  
• Surfacing techniques including color, UV projection, texture maps, bump maps, and procedural textures
  
• Animation with trueSpace

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Part I: INTRODUCTION TO ADVANCED CREATURE CREATION USING TRUESPACE 3 and 4

Chapter One: What Is This Book About And Who Should Read It

Chapter Two: Basics Of Creature Design

Part II: MODELING A CREATURE USING TRUESPACE3

Chapter Three: Modeling the Gila Monster Body and Tail

Chapter Four: Modeling The Gila Monster Appendages

Chapter Five: Modeling the Gila Monster Head

Chapter Six: Modeling The Scorpion Head And Thorax

Chapter Seven: Modeling The Scorpion Abdomen And Tail

Chapter Eight: Modeling The Scorpion Appendages

Chapter Nine: Assembling The Scorpion

Part III: SURFACING A CREATURE USING TRUESPACE3

Chapter Ten: Surfacing The Gila Monster

Chapter Eleven: Surfacing The Scorpion

Part IV: ANIMATING A CREATURE USING TRUESPACE3

Chapter Twelve: Animating The Gila Monster

Chapter Thirteen: Animating the Scorpion

Chapter Fourteen: Rendering Your Scene

Part V: MODELING SURFACING AND ANIMATING A CHARACTER USING TRUESPACE4

Chapter Eighteen: Dirty Tricks and Sneaky Secrets

Chapter Nineteen: Changes In Version 3.1 and 3.2

Chapter Twenty: pluSpack1 and other Third Party Plugins

Appendix

What is on the CD

Bibliography