Wanna Candlestick?

[Renzatic]

I figured I'd go ahead and start doing some props. Already have a bed and a chair done with patches in Radiant (which I'm calling the Rgun props since they look alot like his stuff), and now I've started doing some stuff in Max.

 

And this is it. It's the first time I've used Max in almost a year and a half, so I'm still a little rusty. I know the meshsmooth is a little overkill, but comeon...I wanted it to look cool for everybody.

 

As far as models go it's simple as all getout. But it'll look fine ingame, which is what counts. Now I just need to skin it...

[Renzatic]

And the props.

 

Just have 2 so far, and I'm not showing the bed up close since I don't have a good mattress or blanket texture...I'm just using a white wall texture I was intending to delete for a placeholder. It looks good in the distance, though.

[Kappow]

Looking good!

 

It's hard to tell without a human model for comparison, but the chairs look like they may be on the small side, I don't really know. But damn that wood floor looks great!

[Springheel]

Great job Ren. This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about in IRC today. Did you do all these today?

 

Hey, while I'm thinking about it, when we start getting to the point of needing paintings and tapestries, I'll gladly donate some art to the cause so we don't have to rely on clipart or anything.

Edited September 27, 2004 by Springheel

[Renzatic]

Yeah, they sat a tiny bit too low, but that's no longer a problem. The headless sitting dude will help you get a sense of scale...it's a fairly large room.

 

Springheel: I was actually considering asking you if I could put some of your pics ingame a few days ago, but it kinda slipped my mind and got lost in the shuffle. I'm still gonna use some clipart, there's a few landscapes pics I like too much to not use, but I'll definately throw in anything you send my way.

 

As for the props...yeah, I've been working on em for the past 4 hours or so. I started a little after everyone signed off of IRC.

Edited September 27, 2004 by Renzatic

[Springheel]

Wow, I'm impressed with what you've been able to do. Maybe it WON'T take half a year just for the models. Hey, where did that headless guy come from in the pic?

[Renzatic]

When you rightclick on the grid he'll be under the char subset...char_marine_asian_chair1. Most of the models have swappable heads, and since I haven't figured out how to plant one on yet I had to leave him headless.

 

And it'll still take awhile to do all the props, everything you're seeing here is fairly simple stuff. I won't be nearly as quick once I start getting into really high detailed victorian furniture

[New Horizon]

Really nice work. Very Thiefy, I'm extremely impressed. I can't wait to get back from my trip and start working on learning the editor myself.

[BlackThief]

awesome stuff renz !

your furniture rocks it looks already as good as the thief 3 stuff !

[Renzatic]

Prepare for the GLORAH!

 

 

I had a lens flair on it, but it covered up the glory of the jar...which is TOTALLY unacceptable.

[Fingernail]

That's some super jar there.

[Renzatic]

The jar has reduced Fingernail to tears!

 

Okay, going serious for a second. The next thing I'm gonna try for is a good light fixture, somewhat similar to what's already in my map but far more detailed. Would you say that 250-300 triangles is good target to aim for?

Edited September 27, 2004 by Renzatic

[Fingernail]

Look, you taffer: You need to make one that's about 500 polys, but you also need to make a heavily detailed one that's at least 10,000 polys for normalmap reference. And you need both.

 

IRC

[BlackThief]

the jar looks great. what about some thief1/2 wallight ?

[Renzatic]

That's what I'm gonna do next, BT.

 

Finger: Considering that my props are quite a bit simpler than a full blown character model, a good meshsmooth should be all I need to do to get a well rounded normalmap.

 

Just keep in mind that this isn't my area of expertise, so beyond a few lights here and there, most of it will be small objects that are best used as throwaway details.

[Fingernail]

should schmould.

 

You need to add little details like trails of wax and metal/wood carving on the stick itself.

[Springheel]

I don't remember that model being in the game...are there models in the editor that weren't used? Anything that we can use? Should we be designing our models so that they have swappable heads?

[Fingernail]

probably. But I think that, if Renz actually bothered going ingame, he'd find heads magically appeared on the AIs.

[Renzatic]

should schmould.

 

You need to add little details like trails of wax and metal/wood carving on the stick itself.

I've already started adding wax, but wood trimming is turning out to be a bit difficult for me since I have trouble adding exact details to a single mesh.

 

I can do plenty of carvings and little details with splines, but adding them on top of an already existing model is a fairly sloppy way of doing things.