Keeping your project organized is very important. We''ll set up our project to optimize our work flow.

We go over the work flow for creating custom props and animations.

We'll be introduced to the user interface of Maya and take a brief look at the many tools and options it contains.

Before we start we need to set up our project directory. We'll also run through a quick importing exercise.

Using the Prall plugin we will be exporting our model's SMD files.

We go over the QC pipeline for creating and exporting our models.

In this chapter we'll get started on our QC files.

A quick exercise of applying a texture to an object is the focus of this chapter.

In this chapter we will get a introduction to the Hammer Editor and learn to import objects that were made in Maya.

In this chapter we will be creating breakable gibs to make an object destructible.

With our gibs created we will be setting up QC files for them.