This course is a practical guide to constructing 3D buildings that can be used to populate video game environments. Author Adam Crespi starts with a gas station taken from a photograph—retrieving measurements and dimensions with modular blocking and planning techniques in Adobe Photoshop—and then re-creates the building in Maya with polygonal modeling and advanced texturing techniques.

If you're ready for a journey into the structure of meaning and mind, Frame Games will take you on an adventure into the very matrix of the frames of your mind. As Morpheus did in the movie, "The Matrix," Dr. Hall invites you to "take the red pill" so that you can wake up from "the world that's been pulled down over your eyes." Then you can become free from the domination of your own Frames.

The Game Programmer's Guide to Torque: Under the Hood of the Torque Game Engine
The author takes readers on an in-depth walkthrough of the Torque Game Engine one of the most popular, powerful, and easy to use game engines available today.

Game programming doesn't have to be difficult. If you've wanted to learn how to program simple games for Xbox, Windows or Windows Phone 7, but have been intimidated by the complexity, this course is for you! This course walks you through using the Microsoft XNA framework to build a simple 2D space shooting game, exploring numerous game programming concepts along the way.

In this series of tutorials we're going to learn how to create stunning renders for game art using Marmoset Toolbag. We'll begin by learning the interface and how to navigate in the viewport. After that we'll jump into production by learning how to import our 3d files into Marmoset Toolbag. Then, we'll start creating and modifying materials to apply to our game character. After that, we'll push our scenes even further by setting up lights in our scene using the Sky Tool and dynamic lights.

The objectives for this fast-pace, intensive training includes looking at options for creating a game-boss type character from start to a finished game-ready state. We'll look at mesh creation techniques in ZBrush, topology and UV methods in TopoGun and Maya, and presentation techniques in Marmoset Toolbag. Before we start, I recommend you have experience using ZBrush, TopoGun, and Maya as we cover what would normally take hours to accomplish in a shorter span of time.

In this series of CINEMA 4D tutorials we will use the robust and user-friendly muscle system in CINEMA 4D to enhance the realism of an animated creature. We will learn how to strategically build an efficient muscle rig to create and maintain volume.

Game programming doesn't have to be difficult. If you've wanted to learn how to program simple games for Xbox, Windows or Windows Phone 7, but have been intimidated by the complexity, this course is for you!

Cross platform game development can be very difficult; this course will teach you how to make it as easy as possible. You will learn how to use MonoGame to develop XNA based games that will run on Windows, Android, iOS and more. In this course we will cover some basic game development concepts as we create a basic Pong clone. We will then take that game and get it to work on iOS, Android and WP7. If you are thinking about getting into game development or have always been interested in the subject, this is a great way to start. This is a beginner course that doesn't require you to know anything about game development.

Ready to learn about all the details of setting up and balancing the mechanical and electronic components of your helicopter system? This is the program you need! For ALL electric and nitro collective pitch helicopters. Whether you are new to helicopters or an intermediate pilot ready to get into advanced aerobatics, this program is packed with tips, hints, tricks, and techniques for customizing your helicopter to fit your unique style of flying!