Creating Games with Unity and Maya

CHAPTER 7

Asset Creation: Advanced Shading, Lighting, and Baking

You’re a baker baking a cake. You fly to South America to personally select the very best chocolate, travel to Wisconsin to personally massage the cows so they produce the very best milk, assemble pure wheat from Nebraska after ensuring that every stalk is untouched by anything that would mar the precious kernels it held, sing to the chickens every night in the barn to make sure they lay the most perfect eggs, and then after putting all these ingredients in a bowl, you go out and grab the water needed from the gutter outside. This is how beginning game artists far too often go ...