Jerboa's Models

[Jerboa]

Here are the in-game renderings of the lute in different perspectives.

[Crispy]

Neat!

 

The lighting looks a bit strange... as if the lute is being rendered fullbright. Is that just because of the map you used?

[Jerboa]

I was not happy with the 1st poly count of my make at 370. So, I did some tweaking and got it down to 340 polys. Here is how it is rendering in-game thus so far.

 

I'm just using a test room that Greebo made for me with shadows off. Easier for me to view.

[greebo]

@Jerboa: I added the perfume and chair model to SVN (no moveables yet). I did not add the compass yet, because it has no collision mesh in it. People would expect such a small item to be moveable when they encounter this model in the map. Also, the backside of the compass is missing, so it's "hollow".

 

Anyway, the chair and the perfume are looking good, I'm going to look into the lute now.

[Jerboa]

I will send the compass whole to you.

 

A dear friend gave me an idea of a period fire pot from the movie troy. Here is how it is rendering so far in-game. We would love to see this with fire coming out of it possible.

[greebo]

A dear friend gave me an idea of a period fire pot from the movie troy. Here is how it is rendering so far in-game. We would love to see this with fire coming out of it possible.

Just go into DarkRadiant, right-click into the orthoview, choose Create Entity, head to darkmod > Light Sources > light_torchflame and position the light on top of the model.

 

However, is there something wrong with the texture? It appears to be very bright for an in-game shot, is this a diffusemap only without a normalmap?

[Jerboa]

Oh sweet! here it is with fire and a slight texture alteration.

[Jerboa]

Hi, I would like to know if it is possible to add a non player character to my test room. Like a peasant or a commoner for sizing purposes. Ty

[greebo]

Just open that Create Entity dialog again and choose the builder guard AI for instance (Darkmod > AI > Builders, I think).

[Jerboa]

Thank you, I was able to implement a guard in the test room. He killed me a few times at 1st, until I fiddled with the settings to make him passive.

[Springheel]

Man, that really is terrible lighting in that room for displaying models.

[Jerboa]

What lighting would you recommend then?

[greebo]

I'd recommend putting in 1 ambient light (shader is ambientlightnfo, light has a colour of about 0.06,0.06,0.06) plus two or three ordinary point lights, with a greyish/yellowish colour.

 

I can give you my local testmap for your models, if you want me to.

[Jerboa]

Sure thing Greebo. I'll take the map.

[Jerboa]

Thank you Greebo for the room.

 

I know this is off the beaten path of models on the master model list. But, I had a blast making an ulu/eskimo knife. Let me know if you want me to send it.

[Ishtvan]

Our setting is a trade city in contact with many different societies, so I don't see anything wrong with including some things like this as random import goods or something. I'm not the art director though, so you'll have to wait for Spring's opinion.

[Springheel]

I don't see any problem with the idea of it, though I'm not sure players will know exactly what it is.

[Ishtvan]

Yeah, I guess if you hadn't have told me it was an Eskimo knife, I would have assumed it was a tool for smoothing out mortar or something.

[Jerboa]

My attempt at the snake staff listed in the modelers master list. This is what I currently have.

[Crispy]

I'm guessing you're referring to the shaman staff model and using this pic as reference, right?

 

Needs more gnarliness and to look more threatening. It looks like a grinning cartoon snake atm. Also, it looks like it's supposed to be made out of detailed wood - the source image has no green snakeskin. Anyway, most snakeskin is actually not green. Brown and black snakes are more common. Green tree pythons are one of the few exceptions.

 

This really needs a normal map to get the detail you want in the skin. Ideally it needs to be sculpted as a high-poly model first and then projected onto a lower-poly model to get the normal map. Which is a more complicated but very valuable skill.

[Baddcog]

Anyway, most snakeskin is actually not green. Brown and black snakes are more common. Green tree pythons are one of the few exceptions.

 

Don't forget the green and yellow 6 foot bullsnake I had to bunny hop on my mountain bike one time

 

I was actually suprised at the vividness of it's colors, I had only seen brown ones before. It was by the South Platte river close to Denver, Co.

 

But I do agree, it's too cartoony and doesn't look much like the concept. Even the shape of the top in the concept is really 'loopy', yours just has a curve.

 

But I kindof think the ref image is slightly cartoony, but more menacing.

 

I actually think it would be best to give a good shape of the head in the wood. Then make gold teeth or something like it's valuable and a craftsman made it. The white teeth make it look plasticy.

[Springheel]

This one is definitely going to need a detailed normalmap.

[Jerboa]

Tooled around with the textures abit and came up with the following so far. I'll play around with xnormal and see what I can produce as well.

[Jerboa]

I am still tweaking out this model. I re-shaped it abit to save on polys. Here is the newer version of it in different perspectives. My next effort on this staff will be on the coloring requested.

[Jerboa]

Re-worked the staff yet again by angling the head down so the eyes will show on a frontal view. Thinned out the staff for a better grasp. Cleaned the textures abit by using precious to semi precious materials such as gold, jade and fire opal. Here is how it renders in-game.