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A shader that makes the transition from light to shade slightly more red would probably be enough, I think.

Great video! I think my favorite part was the stealing of the dining table as the maid put items on it lol

Weird, it opens here. Maybe it's server/traffic thing. I toyed with it a little, it works. The leaves are individual planes, making a regular tree about 12000 polys, but we could lower this number and use a different texture with more leaves instead of one.

This free software http://www.frecle.net/index.php?show=treed.about could be used to create more trees.

I'm always craving for traditional missions! and I have a feeling this contest isn't going to satisfy that specific craving

Whenever I see these screenshots for upcoming FMs I remember that video of the guy that was tased during John Kerry's speech. Why? because I think to myself "don't you tease me, man!" and that comes out exactly like the guy in the video

It isn't hard at all, I did this game in 9 days, but it depends on what are you making. It's the best compromise between ease of use and flexibility, in my opinion. I'll have to play those games later! they look neat.

With a bit of practice you can make all levels crumble to dust

You think? that guard probably agrees with you. Anyone knows how 3ds max units relate to TDM units? if not I can just import a guard to compare. I can see the hair transparency is working, that was one of my concerns. They weren't supposed to cast shadows though, models have shadow models, right? I could just remove the hair planes for the shadow model. Normal map and texture looks ok too. That leaves only the animation problem to solve. All right, thanks for testing The first important issue to solve I think is the animation not playing, do you have any clues if the problem is on the file generated? I was so happy to see that after half an hour not responding it actually generated something, but it might be just garbage edit: well, the md5 viewer did load the animation...

I made a small game for the gamejolt contest, we had 9 days to come up with something following the theme of "chaos". My entry is called Not On My Watch, it's a parody of action hero movies, and the gameplay is all about running, knocking out bad guys recovering microchips and exploding everything. You can read more about the controls and rules at the same page of the game: Not On My Watch If anyone plays it let me know what you think I had completely forgotten about this! until now, that the winners were announced (I didn't even get a mention, oh shoot...). There are some pretty cool entries on this contest, if anyone has the patience to sort through the big list. I'm not particularly fond of the ones that won but judging creative things is subjective.

Spring, can you test this? Just to make sure my workflow isn't fundamentally flawed... This is the md5mesh file This is the md5anim Idle animation If this works out my final workflow is a nightmare, but works. After animating I have to export the whole thing to an FBX file because that bakes the animation to the bones directly the easiest way, create new file, import the fbx, export as md5. edit: Forgot the textures. Here they are: link

WAIT!! I can't believe this... after 3ds max stops for a several minutes I usually crash it but this time I forgot about the whole thing (I was writing here), went to the kitchen and made me a sandwich, watched some tv and, when I came back, both files were generated. Well, how would I know... it just needs time. A LOT of time. And the MD5 viewer loaded the file with no problem this time. Except one tiny weeny problem, but that's totally my fault and I know how to fix it.

I'm using Max 2012. I tried saving and opening again (with editable mesh and a skin modifier only) This exporter throws an unknown exception and points me to a point in the script where it seems to be iterating through all vertices. The other exporter I'm using I can't find a link anywhere, I don't remember where I got it. But it's from a guy called Jonathan "BeRSeRKeR" Garc, . Anyway, this exporter seems to generate the md5mesh but not the animation file. 3ds Max stops responding, which leads me to believe the script is probably stuck trying to do something. Both of these scripts are at least a couple of years old, it may be a compatibility issue.

It is. Can you think of anything else that might be causing trouble? if you know of a safest way through another software I'm pretty sure I can export it using FBX.

I could only help if a foreign accent is needed

This goddamn bot is starting to get annoying edit: there was a bot here, I'm not crazy! don't take me awaaay

That might have been Stephen Russel as well but I'm not certain. But he did play several other characters in each game.

My point exactly! What really bugs me is that Dishonored devs made the smart move to look for inspiration in Thief, why does thief have to be developed by people with no vision? what an unfair world.

It never did? I never noticed (I don't usually kill the AI to notice) but it looks great! gruesome, actually

I'm trying two different exporters. One throws an unknown exception and points me to a line of code from the script that doesn't mean anything to me, and the other crashes the whole thing. Not promising!

Come to think of it, the same thing happened to Sonic! They tried and tried and tried to remake it but they just didn't have faith in 2d platform. Only now they seem to understand that 2d platform is not a design based on technological limitation, it's actually fun!

I can't say anything without playing it but things are definitely not looking good. If I had to bet, I'd say that if thief ever makes a worthy come back it's not going to be thief 4, thi4f or whatever they're calling this. They clearly have no faith in the original design.

Glad you like it I made some improvements to that animation, it's twice as long and there are no perceivable repetitive movements now (I hope). There are 2 animations and I'm moving to the walk cycle now. My fear is that I'm doing something wrong that the engine doesn't like and all the animations will be wasted. I was wondering if anyone wants to test at least the idle animation in-game. I tried to export to md5 and visualize it with the md5 model viewer to no avail, I don't know if the problem is in the viewer or in the export/model process.