I made a "space zombie" md5mesh and md5anims

[Stepan1010]

Hello again. I made a zombie for my game in progress. I was inspired by Fire Marshall Bill:

 

Let me know how it looks:

 

 

Here is the prototype video if you are interested:

Edited March 16, 2015 by Stepan1010

[Obsttorte]

Good work.

 

One thing, though. Would it be possible that you post all your work in one thread instead of starting a new one over and over again?

[Stepan1010]

Good work.

 

One thing, though. Would it be possible that you post all your work in one thread instead of starting a new one over and over again?

 

Sure thing. Although I probably won't be posting again for a few months.

[RPGista]

Whoa, thats some serious work you are putting in there, I say fantastic stuff, not easy to see so much coherent work being produced like that in our midst. Wish you good luck with your project, Im getting a bit of a system shock 2 kind of feel to it, with the horror elements (very cool zombies btw), it works nicely. I guess your guy kind of got sucked into that supernova thing there at the end or maybe his ship exploded, that sucks, but at least he put up a fight.

[Stepan1010]

Whoa, thats some serious work you are putting in there, I say fantastic stuff, not easy to see so much coherent work being produced like that in our midst. Wish you good luck with your project, Im getting a bit of a system shock 2 kind of feel to it, with the horror elements (very cool zombies btw), it works nicely. I guess your guy kind of got sucked into that supernova thing there at the end or maybe his ship exploded, that sucks, but at least he put up a fight.

 

Thanks for the encouragement. Several people have commented on the art style being reminiscent of SS2. It may have been conscious or subconscious(I can't remember) - but I was indeed playing SS2 when I decided on the art style I would use.

 

That "supernova" is the placeholder ship destruction particle effect(with a count of 3 or 4 particles total - the final version will probably have hundreds or thousands). Many of the models are placeholders still: the ships' consoles and modules - the captains chairs and transporter pads.

[Stepan1010]

I thought some of you might be interested in seeing these. They are a series of ASE models I created for my game. The textures are somewhat dynamic based on events that happen aboard your ship(like damage and such):

 

http://www.midwestvideogames.com/sci-fi-architecture-and-some-other-news/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[SeriousToni]

Wow thats a ton of crazy stuff getting on your ship there!

Why is the person's head (to the right in the screen) always changing too?

[RPGista]

Hahaha, good eyes Toni, had not spotted that. Very cool indeed, tons of work going on! I also see that guy(s) playing flipperama down there, always changing. I quite like the art direction, with those clean, geometric, full color style you are going for, the great variety of engines, workstations and the spaceship tech. Very good work man.

[Stepan1010]

Wow thats a ton of crazy stuff getting on your ship there!

Why is the person's head (to the right in the screen) always changing too?

 

Each color scheme and art style is associated with an alien species in my game. I came up with names for them:

 

Artifician - robots

Bellumturan - war lizards

Cerebturan - brainiacs

Human - you know this one

Insecturan - insects

Machinulan - borgish

Malnuran - demons

Mendacian - froggies

Transitorian - scavengers, scrappers

 

 

Hahaha, good eyes Toni, had not spotted that. Very cool indeed, tons of work going on! I also see that guy(s) playing flipperama down there, always changing. I quite like the art direction, with those clean, geometric, full color style you are going for, the great variety of engines, workstations and the spaceship tech. Very good work man.

 

You are way too kind. I tried to stick with an art style that I could produce rather quickly but still looked decent. I hope other people feel the same way as you. Maybe they will, maybe they won't - once I put all the pieces together . . . time will tell.

[Stepan1010]

Hello again. I made some more stuff in the id tech 4 engine:

 

http://www.midwestvideogames.com/exterior-starship-modelling/

 

 

 

 

Let me know what you guys think.

 

-Steve

[Bikerdude]

I love the little details that you can see on some of the ships and on what looks like the space station.

[RPGista]

Really cool ships, I like the RTS, Starcraft kind of feel you get seeing all the fleets going around like that!

[Stepan1010]

I love the little details that you can see on some of the ships and on what looks like the space station.

 

Really cool ships, I like the RTS, Starcraft kind of feel you get seeing all the fleets going around like that!

 

 

Thanks I appreciate that. It's good to know people seem OK with the art style I'm doing in this game.

[Anderson]

This is really impressive.

 

Are you doing these as a hobbie?

[Stepan1010]

This is really impressive.

 

Are you doing these as a hobbie?

 

Hello Mr. Anderson. Thanks.

 

I started this game as a hobby. However, about 10 months ago I decided I was going to try to finish it and sell it.

[Stepan1010]

Hello again. I made bunch more stuff in the id tech 4 engine:

 

http://www.midwestvideogames.com/a-whole-bunch-of-stuff/

 

Let me know what you guys think.

[SeriousToni]

I really like how you can distinguish between the factions through the colours - nice work!

[Stepan1010]

I really like how you can distinguish between the factions through the colours - nice work!

 

Thanks.

[SeriousToni]

Did you read on colour theory for doing this btw? I mean like what colour implies which emotional feeling? Looks like you did - pretty nailed it for me

[Stepan1010]

Did you read on colour theory for doing this btw? I mean like what colour implies which emotional feeling? Looks like you did - pretty nailed it for me

 

I have not read that much about color theory. I mostly used my own personal/cultural interpretation of each color. And I also relied a lot on Star Trek which is a major source of inspiration for me.

[Stepan1010]

Hello again,

 

I've completed the music and sound effects. Feel free to take a listen to some examples:

http://www.midwestvideogames.com/music-and-sound-effects/

 

Thanks,

Steve

[Stepan1010]

Hello one more time,

 

I'm done with the alpha of the game:

http://www.midwestvideogames.com/the-alpha-is-done/

 

Here is the alpha trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPmQt2L7OOQ

 

 

I hope you guys think it looks at least mildly interesting.

[Bikerdude]

Very interesting.

[SeriousToni]

Wow, your skill of creating interfaces may would benefit the mod, wouldn't it? At the moment there's too much functions in one place to make the user understand without explanation but what it shows is that you are able to create an excessive interface which gives the user so much power. Maybe you can have a look at the new inventory system in 2.04 (not implying it would be bad) and improve it further for 2.05?

And also the effect you created, when the ship travels (the player view changes like he / she is sitting in an airplane which drives really fast) is also very impressive.

Good work on this! I hope you can transport something of your new found knowledge into The Dark Mod

[Stepan1010]

Wow, your skill of creating interfaces may would benefit the mod, wouldn't it? At the moment there's too much functions in one place to make the user understand without explanation but what it shows is that you are able to create an excessive interface which gives the user so much power. Maybe you can have a look at the new inventory system in 2.04 (not implying it would be bad) and improve it further for 2.05?

And also the effect you created, when the ship travels (the player view changes like he / she is sitting in an airplane which drives really fast) is also very impressive.

Good work on this! I hope you can transport something of your new found knowledge into The Dark Mod

 

Once I get the first public build of the game available for download (probably will be on IndieDB), I'll also post my version/fork of the open source code on github. I'll be sure to let you guys know about it on this forum. My feeling is that there will not be much of use to you guys, but if there is anything I'll be happy to explain how I did it. For example the warp effect is a modified version of the warp effect from the grabber in ROE - combined with a simple fade to white.

Edited July 23, 2016 by Stepan1010