Project: Preparing the Scene

images Before starting the texturing process, review the scene file and its contents. Open the ambulance-start.ma scene file from the Project3 folder on the DVD.

The scene features a four-wheel-drive ambulance driving over a rocky hill top. The ambulance is composed of 38 polygon surfaces. The hill is a single-polygon surface that has numerous undulations. The ambulance is animated driving forward for a two-second animation. In addition, the Render camera is animated panning and craning up.

Note that the sample scene files included for this chapter and Chapter 6 assume that the bitmap textures are located within the Textures ...

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