Needed for Standalone: Animated Skeleton

[Springheel]

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.

[Springheel]

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)

[Sotha]

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?

[nbohr1more]

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 this

in one of his threads...

[Sotha]

Thanks. Experimenting now...

[Springheel]

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.

[Melan]

The skeleton looks wonderfully detailed and quite sinister!

[Mr Lemony Fresh]

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

[Springheel]

I tried importing the .fbx into Lightwave but couldn't get it to work. I haven't got Maya installed right now.

[RPGista]

Just opened the file, awesome model, great textures too, very, very good work, hope you benefit from having your work displayed in TDM!

[Mr Lemony Fresh]

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

[Glyph Seeker]

Amazing work Lemony, thank you for the time and work you've invested!

[Springheel]

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:

[RPGista]

Haha, looks awesome in game, great work guys.

[zergrush]

Looking great. I guess the only animated model left now is the werebeast, right? How's the progress with that one?

[Springheel]

The last time Diego posted anything about it was in December, so....

[zergrush]

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?

[i30817]

Some other heads, like caved in, broken teeth, deformed jaw, coolskeleton* would be cool to have, but i guess that can be done later?

 

 

 

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[Mr Lemony Fresh]

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.

[Springheel]

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.

[SeriousToni]

I had the same problem but foudn out the correct normal settings here

Edited March 24, 2013 by SeriousToni

[Springheel]

I just inverted the green channel and everything looks great now.

[zergrush]

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.

[Springheel]

Hexen has their own skeleton model; in the past they've wanted to keep their models specific to their mod.

[Springheel]

Ok, I've added a bloody skin and a dirty skin.