Tutorial: From 3DS Max to FPS Control (Unity) Video Lecture | How to make Video Games: Game Editor Tutorial - Game Development

if you like using 3d studio max to
create your game geometry you'll
appreciate this video we've asked the
guys from CJ cooky comm to showcase how
to set up the scale in 3 serial mac so
that your assets fit the FPS control
plugin for the Unity game engine exactly
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hey everyone my name is Wes Burke from
CG cookie calm in this video I'm going
to show you how to export assets from 3d
studio max over to unity to use within
our FPS control scene but before we dive
into the asset in 3d studio max let's
head over to unity to figure out our
scene scale so here we are new T and
what I've done is loaded the shellshock
demo and I'm just going to look at this
doorway here to find out our scene scale
I'm also using a free distant measuring
tool from West McDermott this distance
tool is available in the asset store for
free and it helps measure distances on
your assets so if we're looking at this
doorway it is two point three four units
tall so that's roughly about two and a
half or two and a third meters tall as
well so if you have a quick visual
reference of what we're looking at let
me go ahead and create three basic cues
from unity and at unity cube my default
is one by one by one
so it's one unity unit by one unity unit
control-d and this is just to show you
the reference of you know how tall or
why the stories will be
there we go so we can see your doorway
is about two and one-third unique cubes
tall or if you look at our distance tool
again it's about two point three units
tall
so let's go ahead and get rid of these
cubes and now that we know the scene
scale here we're going to take this
measurement over in the 3d studio max so
here we are in 3d studio max we have our
low poly fire hydrant asset and this is
the asset that we want to get over to
FPS control now what I'm working here
with is default generic 3d studio max
units and I'll go ahead and draw out a
tape measure at that length I just pull
this up in the front view go to modify
and I want to specify a specific length
and there it is 2.34 is what I would
like to specify because this is the high
height of our doorway over in the FPS
control scene so we can see this fire
hydrant is rather large and we have to
scale this down to have it fit into our
FPS control scene so what we can do is
you scaled down an average fire hydrant
size is around two and a half feet or
roughly 66 to 75 centimeters so if this
tape measure is two point three four
units tall are roughly tuna 1/3 meters
we can scale this down to 1.8 and I'll
get it about 80 centimeters or even
point seven to help me out I'm going to
load the measuring tool so I'm clicking
on utilities here clicking on measure
and I'm gonna lock my selection on the
fire hydrant and if you move or scale us
or our excuse me to scale this around
you'll see it your numbers changing and
we're really looking at is your Z here
so I'm gonna scale this down to around
0.8 to get it pretty close that's point
seven point eight so now our fire
hydrant is around two and a half feet
tall and what I need to do is apply
transforms so that's gonna be under
recent xform preset selected what this
does is it lets 3d studio max know that
this is the correct size for this asset
now before we explore this out you will
note that I do have
of the pivot point at the base and I'm
gonna hit W in center this is zero zero
putting your pivot point at the base of
your object as you can see helps with
our scaling so we scale from the bottom
but it also helps with snapping when we
get over to our game engine so if I turn
on snap here we'll see if we go around
see how it snaps at the grid you want
this to happen in your game engine as
well so I'll select this asset and go
file export selected and then we're
gonna export this FBX assets into our
unity project here I'm using the 2013
FBX exporter I'm using a scale factor
one actually haven't checked to
automatic we're gonna leave that there
okay then we'll head back over to unity
so here in unity I see that I had my
hydrant asset was exported to our assets
folder I'm going to double check and
make sure on the inspector with your
asset selected that your import is set
to one import scale factor we're going
to drop this guy in here and that looks
to be about right the fire engine fits
within the scene it's to scale and now
if you use the same setting in your
three to Mexico every asset you create
thereafter it will fit nicely into your
FPS control one final thing to make sure
that you double check is that the scale
of your asset here as well is one to one
the one hope this helps and have fun
with FPS control