Springheel Posted March 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 As I said before, if someone can demonstrate that having LOD AI would actually result in significant savings, I'd be willing to look into it. Everything I've seen suggests that the bottleneck with AI is thinking, not poly count. Quote TDM Missions: A Score to Settle * A Reputation to Uphold * A New Job * A Matter of Hours Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop * Building Traps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springheel Posted March 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 Lemony: If the mesh is different than the previous one you posted last month, could you give me a copy in .obj format? Or maybe there is one and I missed it? (there are at least 15 different folders in the archive) Quote TDM Missions: A Score to Settle * A Reputation to Uphold * A New Job * A Matter of Hours Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop * Building Traps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sotha Posted March 17, 2013 Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 As I said before, if someone can demonstrate that having LOD AI would actually result in significant savings, I'd be willing to look into it. Everything I've seen suggests that the bottleneck with AI is thinking, not poly count. Is there a way to make an AI non-thinking? A spawnarg? Quote Clipper-The mapper's best friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbohr1more Posted March 17, 2013 Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 Is there a way to make an AI non-thinking? A spawnarg? The closest to a spawnarg for this would be "neverdormant 0" which turns off thinking when not in view. As I recall, the whole enterprise of creating "func_animate" decorative AI was to address this issue. Arcturus demonstrated thisin one of his threads... Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sotha Posted March 17, 2013 Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 Thanks. Experimenting now... Quote Clipper-The mapper's best friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springheel Posted March 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 As I recall, the whole enterprise of creating "func_animate" decorative AI was to address this issue. It's fairly limited in its use, unfortunately. Decent for making a bunch of AI sitting at a bar or standing watching something, but they can't do more than one animation, and they're nonsolid. Quote TDM Missions: A Score to Settle * A Reputation to Uphold * A New Job * A Matter of Hours Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop * Building Traps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melan Posted March 17, 2013 Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 The skeleton looks wonderfully detailed and quite sinister! 1 Quote Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lemony Fresh Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 (edited) If you could put it under Simon P Heggie that'd be swell =) if someone sees the skeleton and wants more skeletons from me premium, then I'll want them to be able to find me ^^ EDIT: There's an fbx file in the 'scenes' folder that you should be able to open with most 3d applications. it's the best for keeping all the material information and what not. But if you like i can get you an obj tomorrow. Edited March 19, 2013 by Mr Lemony Fresh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springheel Posted March 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 I tried importing the .fbx into Lightwave but couldn't get it to work. I haven't got Maya installed right now. Quote TDM Missions: A Score to Settle * A Reputation to Uphold * A New Job * A Matter of Hours Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop * Building Traps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPGista Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 Just opened the file, awesome model, great textures too, very, very good work, hope you benefit from having your work displayed in TDM! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lemony Fresh Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 (edited) Thanks for the kind words folks =) Springheel, if you check your private message between me, you and badcog the obj is there for you to download. Edited March 20, 2013 by Mr Lemony Fresh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glyph Seeker Posted March 22, 2013 Report Share Posted March 22, 2013 Amazing work Lemony, thank you for the time and work you've invested! Quote "No proposition Euclid wrote,No formulae the text-books know,Will turn the bullet from your coat,Or ward the tulwar's downward blowStrike hard who cares—shoot straight who can—The odds are on the cheaper man." From 'Arithmetic on the Frontier' by Rudyard Kipling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springheel Posted March 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 Still some work to do...need to add a shadowmesh and fix some welded verts (and add the skull), but I've finished rigging the body: 4 Quote TDM Missions: A Score to Settle * A Reputation to Uphold * A New Job * A Matter of Hours Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop * Building Traps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPGista Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 Haha, looks awesome in game, great work guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zergrush Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 Looking great. I guess the only animated model left now is the werebeast, right? How's the progress with that one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springheel Posted March 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 The last time Diego posted anything about it was in December, so.... Quote TDM Missions: A Score to Settle * A Reputation to Uphold * A New Job * A Matter of Hours Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop * Building Traps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zergrush Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 Perhaps one should consider finding another modeler, or at least a suitable body model that can be adapted to the current head. Have you tried looking or posting a request at Open Game Art? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i30817 Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 Some other heads, like caved in, broken teeth, deformed jaw, coolskeleton* would be cool to have, but i guess that can be done later? * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lemony Fresh Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 Looks as though there is a problem with the way that doom handles normal maps in mirrored uv space. See how one side looks ok but the other side looks a little strange? it's especially noticeable if you check the centre of it. I might look into it in my spare time and get back to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springheel Posted March 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 Yes, I did notice that actually. I'm not sure why there's a problem there...I haven't had time to look into it yet but I know D3 frequently mirrored models to save UV space without normalmap issues, so it's not unworkable. Quote TDM Missions: A Score to Settle * A Reputation to Uphold * A New Job * A Matter of Hours Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop * Building Traps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeriousToni Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 (edited) I had the same problem but foudn out the correct normal settings here Edited March 24, 2013 by SeriousToni Quote "Einen giftigen Trank aus Kräutern und Wurzeln für die närrischen Städter wollen wir brauen." - Text aus einem verlassenen Heidenlager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Springheel Posted March 24, 2013 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 I just inverted the green channel and everything looks great now. 5 Quote TDM Missions: A Score to Settle * A Reputation to Uphold * A New Job * A Matter of Hours Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop * Building Traps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zergrush Posted March 24, 2013 Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 Very fancy indeed. Perhaps we should share this one with the Hexen mod folks too, since they're likely to find a good use for it as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springheel Posted March 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 Hexen has their own skeleton model; in the past they've wanted to keep their models specific to their mod. Quote TDM Missions: A Score to Settle * A Reputation to Uphold * A New Job * A Matter of Hours Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop * Building Traps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springheel Posted March 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2013 Ok, I've added a bloody skin and a dirty skin. 1 Quote TDM Missions: A Score to Settle * A Reputation to Uphold * A New Job * A Matter of Hours Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop * Building Traps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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