New Character Models

[Springheel]

After wrestling with errors all weekend, I've finally managed to get the beggar animated and in game.

 

As you can see, there are still a few things to tweak (the rope belt needs to have the weighting adjusted and some textures have to be fixed), but he plays his animations properly and generally looks pretty good.

 

(I know he has a pretty healthy stance for a beggar, but those are the only animations we have)

 

[greebo]

Neat, I need to give this guy some coding attention, I guess. The AI Sit'n'Spin issue is not yet addressed, as sitting AI are not properly supported yet.

[jdude]

I think he looks great, but one thing I notice is that his feet aren't the same color as his hands. If he wasn't wearing shoes I think his feet would have the same wear and tear that his hands have. I love it, it looks like he's been out in the cold freezing to death!

[Springheel]

I know, the feet are one of the texture tweaks that need to be done. Right now it's just using the default pagan flesh texture.

[Springheel]

Well, driver issues and switching webhosts knocked me off track for a few days, but I've still been working on getting the nobleman ready to be rigged. I managed to take the old hands Oddity had modeled and reduce the polys to almost the same as the current mitten hands. Take a look at the image below--I know I was impressed with how much better they look, even though they're only about 25 more polys each (and they have a 150 poly shadowmesh). That's the power of a good normalmap for you.

 

 

Now rigging them could be another issue, but one thing at a time....

[New Horizon]

Wow, they look great Spring! How many polys were the original oDDity hands?

[Crispy]

Wow! There's just no comparison. *jawdrop*

 

The texture resolution also looks a lot higher.

[Springheel]

Wow, they look great Spring! smile.gif How many polys were the original oDDity hands?

 

The originals were over 600 polys each, but I don't think much detail has been lost. I definitely want to replace the current mitten hands with these on our existing models eventually. Frankly, I'm not sure why we didn't do something like this right from the start.

[Domarius]

Spring, you kick a variety of types of arse

 

The most obvious improvement is the parts between the fingers, it looks very hard edged and ugly in the old one. Well the old one only has one to compare to, being a mitten hand

[Tels]

Well, driver issues and switching webhosts knocked me off track for a few days, but I've still been working on getting the nobleman ready to be rigged. I managed to take the old hands Oddity had modeled and reduce the polys to almost the same as the current mitten hands. Take a look at the image below--I know I was impressed with how much better they look, even though they're only about 25 more polys each (and they have a 150 poly shadowmesh). That's the power of a good normalmap for you.

 

 

Now rigging them could be another issue, but one thing at a time....

 

Holy crap! :wub: I didn't know I had a handfetish They look beautyful!