The viewport is where the magic happens: it's the space where you visualize all the meshes and perform all the operations regarding them.

A shelf is a quick access space to tools and premade scripts by the user.

To add a material to a 3D object do a RC on it and look for the material.
If you wanna modify it's values you can do on the attribute editor, here you will be able to
​add a texture to the material.
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The Hypershade allows you to see all the shaders in the scene and
​also have even more control over them.

These are used to apply textures properly to the 3D model.
Here are the ways to generate UVs within maya.
The most used in the studio are:

The most used tools are:

The outcome
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​We came up with a specific MayaLT workflow that could help us to reduce the amount of time we had to invest into making the characters. We ended up doing all character 36 variations in 2 weeks.

The guys over We're Five Games provided references for the characters they wanted to have in the game. As you can see in the pictures there is a great range of customisation choices for your character.​

For TRDS, we decided to make a list out of everything we saw on the concept, if you check the concept's pictures you can probably see that a lot of them wear a similar polo and pants, with small variations like long sleeves, open shirts, tank tops.

With this in mind, we started to look into things that are very similar and can be just done once and then create a variation via texture.
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To summarise, pay attention to what's similar, what's different and... list it up. At the end, we reduced the clothing models to nine different shirts and ten different pants. Instead of producing 72 clothes at once, we sorted out a lot of extra work! And made it easy to modify, add, exchange, etc.

Having a good set of UVs per model is very important because we're going to use the same 3D model with interchangeable textures, this way we're just going to make 10 pants instead of 36.
Same goes for the rest of the clothes except for the special ones.

When it comes to making perfectly interchangeable clothes with shareable UVs you can try one of these options:
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• Create the first set of clothes, then create the UVs, and use this first result as a base for the rest of the variations.
• Create the variations taking into account the vertex count and transfer the attributes from one to another. (deeper explanation in the next section)

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Usually this depends on what kind of model you are doing, in this case, we used both methods, the first one for texturing and the second one to turn models into female versions.

One of the things we did to reduce production time was to make a male character and then use it as a reference for the female one. As you may have noticed male and female bodies have a few differences that made impossible to fit clothes for both models; breasts, slender waist, among others...​

Totally Reliable Delivery Service has been a great project to work on. It has allowed us learn new MayaLT techniques for character development in order to save time and work.
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​We can't wait to see the game come out!