Creating custom props gives your game the feel you want. In this chapter we begin setting up our project.

There are many types of models we can import into Softimage. We will be learning how to import a model and modify it.

We will be exporting three SMD files. The model reference SMD, the physics box SMD, and the skeletal animation SMD.

In this chapter we will be creating a VTF file. To do this we'll need a VMT file and an image file.

In this chapter we will create some gibs that we can assemble and break down later in the tutorial.

Now that we have the model exported its time to make it a breakable object.

In this chapter we pose our skeleton, export the SMD files, and compile the model.

In this chapter we will be adding our posed skeleton to a village scene.

In the chapter we import our chained skeleton model and play with a couple of options to make it hang from an object.

In the following section we'll learn the basics of animation.