
Hi all,
As you can see above, I'm making a heavily-armed rooster in Maya, I've only been using the thing (or any 3D modelling software) for 5 days, and I've done 3 or 4 tutorials from the .pdf which came with it and that's all. There are a few things I'm a bit confused about thus far so if someone in-the-know could answer my questions, it would be much appreciated,
A) Should I be worried about overlapping meshes? For example my cockerel's neck and face are two seperate meshes, and I've just pushed them together to overlap. Is that a big deal? Is there a way in which I can select two meshes and have them combine? I know of the Mesh > Combine function within Maya but all that does is lock them together, rather than get rid of the overlaps and make them into a single mesh.
B) The reason I'm using Maya in the first place is to make static meshes and characters to import into UDK for making my own games (I'm actually a sound designer for video games and I'm looking into expanding my usefullness) so with this in mind should I still be using the 'Extract' and 'Unfold' method for texturing? It seems strange to me as you end up importing a seperate texture for each seperate section of the model, and it was my understanding that meshes in games only have 1 texture applied to them? Do I need to do some sort of Combine function on all of the textures to make one big UV map?
C) What is the general workflow for creating an animated character? Should I animate in Maya and the animations will export with it? Or should I export the mesh and animate it in UDK? Or something else althogether? I really am entirely clueless, I've trailed through 100+ UDK tutorials but they don't mention much about what you do when you want to create original content. /confused
D) If you're feeling adventurous please have a quick look over my model and tell me what obvious mistakes I've made, how I might tidy it up? Basically give me an ear-full for being such a nooblet. (Maya 2012); https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14392951/rooster_help.mb
Thanks a tonne to anyone who takes up the task of dealing with me
