Syllabus

BRING YOUR COMPUTER TO CLASS: BRING YOUR COMPUTER (WITH UNREAL, MAYA and HEADSET/MIC) TO CLASS. YOU WILL USE YOUR OWN COMPUTER IN CLASS BECAUSE OUR LAB COMPUTERS DO NOT HAVE UNREAL TOURNAMENT INSTALLED ON THEM DUE TO LICENSE RESTRICTIONS. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BRING YOUR MONITOR, KEYBOARD OR MOUSE: YOU CAN USE THOSE IN OUR LAB -- JUST BRING YOUR MAIN COMPUTER SYSTEM.

Class 1: INTRODUCTION TO COURSE AND 3D

Class 2: INTRODUCTION to UT2004 and MODs

Class 3: IMPORTING INTO UT2004 and TEXTURING

Class 4: MAYA: USER INTERFACE    (FOR MORE MAYA GUI also 1) these ONLINE class notes,  2) these original notes, and 3) this set of original notes.)

Class 5: 3D Forms and Functions [ONLINE]

• NOTES and LINKS for this online class

• Form Teams! (log into our class Yahoo group to read)

• Join the Web3D News Yahoo group (see syllabus)

• Visit Web3DNews.com and review the stories

• For next week: CHOOSE A NEW STORY TO WRITE. Work with your team member(s) to decide on a story to write for Web3DNews.com. Use the Web3D News Yahoo Group to submit your story idea (concept); when approved write your story and post it to Web3DNews.com

Class 6: Web3D and Machinema [ONLINE]

• NOTES and LINKS for this online class

Class 7: MAYA - Working with Polygons and NURBS 

Class 8: MIDTERM and ONLINE CLASS [ONLINE]

• NOTES and LINKS for this online class

Class 11: Synthetic Humans [ONLINE]

• NOTES and LINKS for this online class

Class 12: Character Modeling in Maya, Part 1[ONLINE]

• Install this BC map BEFORE class starts

• NOTES and LINKS for this online class

• America's Army (AA): Install, run, and become comfortable with AA before next week.

WHEN THIS COURSE OVER: Once this course is over consider uninstalling (removing) browser plug-ins and software that you've previously installed for this class but may no longer use. Here's how to uninstall software if you're using a Windows-based computer

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