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The Steam Community – PC Games for Steam

Want to learn more about the Steam Community?

Welcome to the Steam Community where you can discover some neat stuff like screenshots, artworks, broadcasts, videos, the Steam workshop, news, guides, and of course, reviews on PC games. You’ll have a blast rating other people’s posts, fan art, or reviews while building your own profile.

The Steam Community homepage. Guides and reviews of games can be accessed directly.

More importantly, I’m here to show you guys how to navigate the Steam Discussion Forums which you can find on the Community page right here. Notice that the Discussions page is not quite the same as the one on Steam Window mode since they are organized differently whereas your account has more access to games directly.

But I strongly recommend you start with discussion boards on Steam’s official website because their forum contains help and tips for people new to Steam. Otherwise, you’d have to figure everything out on your own.

Steam Community Games – Discussion Forums

There are a total of three tabs: Steam Forums, Game Forums, and Tools & Servers. You are able to search for any topic you want including video game guides like Elder Scrolls Online or Far Cry 3.

Steam Forums provides basic support such as posts on player suggestions and ideas. You are able to ask questions about the Steam mobile app or troubleshooting Steam for Mac. There are posts based on configuring PCs such as backing up data and replacing the graphics card.

Game Forums only displays the most popular hubs and your recently viewed hubs though you can search for games directly to get all the posts people make about it; the most common being personal opinions, commentaries, and complaints.

I don’t really read the Tools and Servers unless I run into a serious problem with my PC. It only has a few boards on Half-Life alongside Art and Sound Design, mostly technical software configuration stuff.

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Steam Community Guides and Walkthroughs

The best way to look up Steam Community Guides and walkthroughs is to use Window Mode. In my opinion, Big Picture Mode is heavily limited in this aspect, it only has a sidebar meant for inviting your friends or checking your game inventory. 

Under Guides, you should see the most popular ones listed first. One of them is about how to remove the “hat glitch” in Team Fortress 2. Perhaps one user figured out how to get all of the achievements in Firewatch and wrote a walkthrough. There are also a bunch of hilarious meme engines if you’re into that. 

An average review on Steam. This one is on Sniper Elite 4.

Last but not least, the Steam Community Reviews are full of recommendations from other players on the games they thumbs up/down. You can comment on top of their reviews or rate their helpfulness.

Walkthroughs and Guides – Big Picture Mode Edition

There is one last thing I almost forgot to mention. In case you are using Big Picture mode to play your Steam Library games. Then, the layout is going to be different from artworks, screenshots, and reviews are all under the same menu. Instead, the guides will be specific to each game as shown:

There are player-created mods, workshop elements, and power-up guides made for The Binding of Isaac.

As a disclaimer, I would like to warn you that not all the guides are in English as there are Russian or Chinese players on Steam. 

But the best way to find walkthroughs and guides on Steam is to search the title under “FIND HUBS”. Let me demonstrate:

  1. Start at Steam Community–>FIND HUBS–>Search Fallout 4
  2. Click on the Guides tab. It will be among the Popular Categories.
  3. You should arrive at this page on Fallout 4 guides.

Secrets, Modding or Configuration, Gameplay Basics, Loot, Crafting, and Walkthroughs

  • Scroll down to browse through the most popular guides.  
  • Click on Gameplay Basics to get tips on EXP and Leveling.
  • Click on Walkthroughs to learn how to get hard achievements.
  • Crafting guides tell you how to get the resources to make a special item or rare weapon/armor.
  • Loot refers to treasures you steal from your slain enemies.
  • Modding or Configuration guides are about toggling your settings.
  • Secrets are the things you tend to overlook on a first playthrough.

I hope this helped you understand how to navigate the walkthroughs and guides on Steam. Maybe one day I will create an instructional video to make it easier to understand. (Or get someone else to do it for me cause I’m too lazy.)

You also have the privilege to create your own guides here. Read more to learn about organizing, adding videos or images, and publishing your guide to the Steam Community. 

That’s all for this tutorial! 

Leave any comments or feedback and I’ll get back to you.

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Maya and computer games | Render.ru

Guest

#1

#1

Hello everyone!

The question, how correctly sounded in the subject, «How widely is Maya
used in computer games?» And are there specific examples of games? I really do not want to start studying 3D Max just because of this aspect. Thanks in advance.

Guest

#2

#2

There are promotional videos on the alias, which show dins made with mai.

Guest

#3

#3

The software war has begun! The question is this. I do not quite understand why the model from Max is better than May’s? What, Max is optimized specifically for game development, and May just allows you to do the same?
Does anyone have an example of what is not possible in May for games. And in Max — yes?
That polygons made in May weigh more than Max ones? Sorry for the crazy amount of questions. I think these questions are best answered by a person who knows both programs perfectly. Thanks in advance.

Puppet
Active Member

#4

#4

In Russia alone, several serious offices use Maya, these are Akella, Nival . ..
I will not list the games, there are many.

Guest

#5

#5

Sailent Storm (Nival) — on the disk there are models and something else for Maya.
There are still some games … To put it simply — for games, Maya has about the same capabilities as Max (well, maybe a little more), so Max or Maya is not important

Guest

#6

#6

Unreal 2003, it seems. I have maya in my utilities, probably it was used to create the game

Guest

#7

#7

Thank you very much!
You convinced me.

Guest

#8

#8

FSE is correct, switch to 3dmax, 99. 9% of computer games are made in it …

Kilya
Active member

#9

#9

in some video about doom3, the animator showed how he animates monster models in maya so)
well, ut 2003, of course

Guest

#10

#10

Yup. And the model is generally in Lightwave. So INTO — a direct road to LW.

Guest

#11

#11

I participated in an emergency in one office for the production of games. The situation is this: me and the boss are Maya, one is max and one more lv (but I’m not sure). All models were converted to one format and transferred to the game. Conclusion — everyone works in what they can and considers the most convenient for themselves, and the landfills are also Africa’s landfills.

Guest

#12

#12

Yup. Only Maksovskaya modelka can quite calmly fill up a T-shirt. And no more difference.

Guest

#13

#13

Excuse me, did you read the message well? I wrote that a model from max can fill up a T-shirt. Can the term «fill up» explain somehow differently?

Igor Prigornev
Expert

#14

#14

Fill up — that’s for sure, clumsy models in Max and clumsily exported to Maya (3ds format), it’s better to model everything either in Maya or in XSI, I don’t know about LW, I haven’t tried it.

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