Mr Lemony Fresh
-
Posts
308 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
3
Posts posted by Mr Lemony Fresh
-
-
I play video games to relax unwind and have fun, and part of my relaxing process is nailing someone in the skull with an arrow. Since it's not that simple in this game, i at least want to knock them out. Call me old fasioned, but i couldn't think of much more stress releiving ways than violently stopping the movement of every moving thing. That's why i wish you could step on rats, that would be neat
-
Yeah, I'm probably gonna be turning to photoshop for that kinda thing anyway, for obvious reasons...
I need to learn how to use mudbox anyway, because that's what they use in most colleges i have my eye around these parts.
For a first try that is amazing! you have a good eye for volume
Cheers!
EDIT: Today I played around with a trial version of mudbox 2011, and this is what i think.
It seems to have a friendly interface and manipulating the model is fairly intuitive.
Only problem I'm having is no auto-save which is strange for an autodesk product... I just lost 2 hours of work which didn't really bother me that much because i was mainly just testing it to see how well it would let me make a head, and as far as I know I had pressed the little save button thing down the bottom right. The thing that really annoys me is now I can't work out whether I can make this thing autosave, or perhaps where my work went!
-
Zbrush is also more appropriate for organic modeling, the differences are: ZB has hundreds of features, harder to work and more expensive.
I prefer Mudbox, though. Zbrush is a good software, it was the first to introduce this concept of high definition modeling but it's so not practical! it has the most useless set of features I have ever seen in a 3d software, followed by the most alien user interface. Mudbox was made with exactly that in mind: a software uniquely made for high definition modeling. It feels just like Maya or 3ds max, only here we make highres models and nothing else.
Sculptris does the basics and it's free!
Also, the ability to subdivide the mesh with the brush is really cool!But from what I've read, mudbox has less capabilities for painting and texturing sculptures, is that true?
I dunno, i found zbrush to be pretty cool, after about 3-4 days use, i came up with this a year an a bit ago http://sim-mo.deviantart.com/art/My-first-Zbrush-attempt-115245398?q=gallery%3ASIM-MO%2F4812013&qo=24
I liked it.
I still respect sculptris, It's pretty cool for freeware, I might end up using it to cut costs.
-
Uhh... I played zork: grand inquisitor, does that make you feel better?
-
I like the updater, it gives me peace of mind that I'm not downloading the same files I already have.
-
I'm getting it now! thanks Irenices!
EDIT: hey, just played around with it for a couple of hours, sculpting a head.
To be honest, I'd rather shell out the cash for zbrush, which to me feels more intuitive and gives you better control over subdivision levels. I did however like the vertex reducing tool
-
Thanks for the fan mod
When I played it, my game only froze once when i tried to quick save. Other than that and a couple of graphical glitches, nice job EDIT: oh whoops, didn't know there was an update to fix the save/load problem
-
haha! I love the way he uses him like an instrument and sam just goes with it :'D
The part where you have to climb into a giant fibre glass fish to be scooped up by the fish catching net in the copter, and then to be dumped onto of the giant ball of twine was an interesting sequence
-
Ah, yes, and broken glass. Not only would it be interesting if you could knock over a glass pitcher and have it break (or the only way in is to break a pane of glass in a window), but the glass shards then fall to the floor, causing that lovely "crack-crunch" sound if you walk over it.
I second that. Except for the crack crunch, that might be hard to implement?
-
uhh.. I'm not the only one who's played sam and max hit the road am I?
Think day of the testicle or perhaps monkey island but with puzzles 30 times as obscure.
-
Personally, I couldn't begin to imagine playing the darkmod with a joystick controller
Maybe your not as unco' as i am
I may be wrong, in which case correct me please, but isn't the level of alertness brought on by when the frequency of the sound emitted by certain materials you walk on? In that case, can't the fan mod makers decide that as well?
-
Think outside the box man.
Like in 'sam and max hit the road' ?
-
No problem, i was just taking a stab having run out of ideas
But with the hammer, maybe not so much? if you use it like it's a weapon, perhaps it could be used for just repelling evil, rather than fighting it, so you have to have it out for it to work. It could also have a charge too... There's any number of things that can be done to balance it out.
Zombies can already be 'killed' with the sword if you hack at the long enough. Having bits fall off is, as Melan pointed out, usually comical (unless we're just talking about a more "gibbous" particle effect, which someone is welcome to create).Yeah. But hitting things with a sword in this mod is the last thing I want to do, unless I have more control at some point :/
-
I have an idea. What if we break the rules just this once and do something that wasn't in theif. We're dealing with a more modernised game engine, and wer'e heading towards realism (yeah i know, zombies aren't realism lol....but...), and zombies are slow, and zombies are made of decaying flesh, and naked. So why not make the body parts detachable, so that you you can hack them up when you attack at the joints to stop them moving. (much like in dead space.)
I this might be difficult to achieve, but think of the reward!
Or else, introduce some kinda other thing like, i dunno, a hammerite hammer that prevents the un-dead from entering your personal space, but i really don't like the idea of being left without defence I've run out of holy water or fire arrows.
-
Yes, quite some work. This article was written for general mappers to use existing assets. To create new stuff is a lot of work and an enormous amount for a beginner to learn. And the most difficult is creating new characters. I don't want to put you off; in fact I'd encourage you - but just so you know.
In your case I'd suggest you examine how skins work and modify an existing guard skin. Then see if you can improvise any of the existing animations to get close to what you want.
Oh, Modeling and texturing is no problem, my skills in that area are intermediate, but the only thing that concerns me is rigging and animating, but I guess the animating part is covered in my course
Also, i don't suppose you know what the deal is with the heads, aren't the interchangeable? maybe i can save time by modeling the heads and re-skinning the rest. At least 20% of the assets are going to be my work. Most of that will be textures though, I can do them in my sleep, but there must be some animation to prove i learnt something in my course
. -
Hey, For my course I'll need to make some animated/modelled objects for a level or in this case a fan mission. If I wanted to model and texture something from scratch, In my case a creepy voodoo guard brought to life through black magic, would much be involved to do with rigging? and if I wanted a couple of extra animations, would that be a difficult thing to accomplish in the space of a few weeks?
Just so you know, I'll need to do that some time in September or October.
-
-guards noticing doors being opened/closed (ESPECIALLY if it happens right in front of them!). If a locked room is left with a door wide open by the player, a guard should at the very least take a look inside
Does anyone remember how in thief a guard would simply acknowledge a change in the scenery if he walked past it? Sometimes if you changed something near a guards route like a door or light or something, they'd walk past and say something like 'that wasn't like that a minute ago...' without stopping, but perhaps looking at that thing as they walk past.
As for me, there are 2 things that bother me.
-The zombies seem to twist a little to far when they swing if you stand near them. I do think it's clever how the swinging adjusts to match the animation of the zombie though. To see what I mean, check the attachment.
-I still think the players foot steps are a little too loud. Sorry guys but I compared the slow walking to my brisk walking and even I sounded more quiet, which is saying something because I consider myself clumsy.
Or If not for more quit sounding footsteps, perhaps faster movement? One of the biggest problems about running into a guard is they are just as fast as you. Even though they are heavily armoured, big oafs and carrying a weapon (like a massive hammer) I feel like if you can't have the advantage of strength or even fighting technique, maybe since you're dressed in leather and other such light material you really should be able to run faster.
It'd also really make running around on large maps like the lord dufford mission a lot more pleasant. Lastly, walking bristly up behind a guard like in thief would be great, but sometimes you need do a lot of following before you catch up, and of course running is out of the question.
-
2
-
-
nup, you still need to disable all but one of them, but I don't really consider it much of a problem.
I just load the disk, open the program, ctrl-alt-delete select affinity and go back and play, to me it feels like the same nature as loading the disk is and it doesn't really bother me.
As for windows 7 in general, I guess you guys aren't liking it, but after a friend went through quickly and changed a couple of settings (minor changes) it works fine for me. I'm not really playing around with things like VM, but it does everything I need, and I consider myself testing the system for all it's worth with some of my projects...
-
Well, I'm not sure I could write a reference for someone I don't know... no problem, I have 2 and a half years to be known
that bachelors degree will take 2 years, and in that time I'm going to try and blow your socks off with 3d modelling and concept art 
Hope you'll have time to play the fan missions
EDIT:
(sits and watches the screen) -
... yeah, I personally know the guy who tried to do this, and EA threatened to take him to court over it after he was issued a cease an desist order. Now he's working on a RTS with one of the former members of the team
That's all I'm allowed to say about it I think. -
If you get the chance you really should. It's so great to discover the amazing things that are in every country.
@ Mr Lemony Fresh: I've already been to the Blue Mountains but didn't go to the caves. Didn't even hear of them otherwise I probably would have went there. I did some caving in New Zealand though
. Apparently there's a bush fire in the Blue Mountains at the moment.Oh what a pity, those caves a truly awe inspiring
Have fun in newzealand though
that should be fun -
I'm Raymond from the Netherlands, 24 years old and finished my bachelor in marketing and sales. I've been working at a gym as a fitness instructor for 9 years and at a marketing department of a monitoring software company for 8 months. I've been doing judo for 10 years (brown belt) and do quite a bit of fitness (suprise!). Apart from that I like to watch movies and play games (not only computer). I've got almost no experience at all in creating mods/fms, my mission for the christmas contest was my first try. I also like to travel quite a bit. I studied at the University of Oklahoma for a semester (go sooners!!) and did my internship in the UK for 5 months. At the moment I'm backpacking in New Zealand and Australia.
Be sure to try and check out Jenolan Caves in the blue mountains in Australia, their incredible!
-
Yep, ZylonBane was probably the worst. Not that I was here when he was banned
I love this forum
it's free from sharks... -
O.o ! crispy! what do you do at 2k- I mean, "The Canberra, Australia arm of 2k marin"??
I don't suppose you'd be willing to write me a reference when it comes time for me to come in and say 'I can haz a job?'
Having a reference from someone 2 people inside 2k would rock!
Anyone got a patched version of DooM 3 torrent link?
in Off-Topic
Posted
I know this has already been discussed comprehensively, but this imediatly brought to mind how this represents everything that could end your game... it's like walking into a tavern full of city guards and asking for map direction to the nearest bank so you can loot it.
If you aren't sharp enough even to ask on a forum where people actively pirate warez, then you really should just be buying the games.