Skeletons

[Springheel]

I noticed, while importing the zombie md5mesh, that it actually had a skeleton mesh inside it. Since it is already animated, all I had to do was create some skins to turn the skeleton texture on and the zombie one off, and presto--a couple animated skeletons. Not the most thiefy of advesaries, but they might be useful for undead missions, or as servants for the revenant.

 

[Domarius]

That's cool but why the hell was this existing inside the zombie? Just how detailed did they model their characters??

 

Maybe an unused feature where you could blow off chunks of flesh and see the underlying bone?

[Springheel]

I have no idea. I don't recall ever seeing walking skeletons in D3. I think you do see the skeleton for a brief moment when a zombie 'gibs' but that seems like an awful lot of work for a half-second visual effect.

[SneaksieDave]

If you want (for consistency between AI and prop), long ago I made the ragdoll skeletons use:

 

tdm_skeleton.skin

tdm_undead.mtr

skeleton.tga (props/textures -- desaturated from the stock D3 version)

[Ishtvan]

That's cool but why the hell was this existing inside the zombie? Just how detailed did they model their characters??

 

Maybe an unused feature where you could blow off chunks of flesh and see the underlying bone?

When you gibbed them, you could see the skeleton for a second or so before it disappeared. Whoop dee doo.

[Springheel]

If you want (for consistency between AI and prop), long ago I made the ragdoll skeletons use:

 

tdm_skeleton.skin

tdm_undead.mtr

skeleton.tga (props/textures -- desaturated from the stock D3 version)

 

Yes, I used the tdm_undead version. I've currently got the entitydefs in the undead.def file, but I'll move them to the skeleton one before uploading.