Getting ready

How to do it...

For those who are familiar with DCC tools, such as 3DS Max or Maya, Editing Mode should look very familiar. It allows you to modify the shape of the solid by changing the location of vertices, edges, faces, and polygons. For those who are unfamiliar with it, we will now demonstrate how to turn this Cube into a very simplistic house-like structure:

You may copy solids and place them anywhere on your level as they too follow the same basic object placement methods used in the Editor. You may also create additional solids that clip through the faces of other solids without interfering with the physics of either solid. This allows you to stack multiple basic shapes of the solids to form the very basic shapes required for an object, or form elaborate structures. Now, let's create one by making a very basic chimney for the house we created:

Even after creating multiple solids and perhaps just stacking them on top of each other for a shape that you want, it won't combine them into a single mesh for the artists to look at within their DCC. To do this, first we need to merge the objects into a single mesh:

There's more...

These are some ways you can export your solid to directly port over to a DCC toolkit.

See also