February 2, 2011

Do it the Max Steel way!

So who or what is Max Steel? Max Steel is a Sci-Fi action, CGI, animated series which originally aired from February 25, 2000 to January 15, 2002 based on the Mattel action-figure of the same name. Currently, you can catch all 35 episodes that are posted in YouTube (click here for direct link).

Moving on, Max Steel: Covert Missions (for Sega Dreamcast) was literally the first game that I got involved when it comes to the gaming industry. It even pushed my boundaries with regards to how 3DS MAX (R2.5 and at this time) works, especially laying down multiple materials on one object, vertex coloring and opacity. I was also fortunate to understand some other things such as Binary Space Partitioning (or better known as BSP - painful to generate back then), portals, and collisions (for props and entities). The learning process was difficult at first, but I gradually understood how things work.

Here are a few scene works I've done on 3DS MAX for the game...









Images of published game for Sega Dreamcast...




Here's a clip from the actual game's intro, user interface (UI), mission intro, and gameplay...