Noble & Table

[Darkness_Falls]

Sweetness! I love the shiny fabrics.

[oDDity]

I think I might tinker with gloss maps as well on this to see if if helps. I have a pattern heightmap on the skirt fabric as wll which you can really see in a still shot. THe normal maps worked out really well on this.

Edited March 31, 2005 by oDDity

[god_is_my_goldfish]

Holy shit that looks amazing!

[New Horizon]

That's absolutely gorgeous! Great work! Your characters just look so bloody real. It's going to make sneaking around in this game a hell of a lot of fun.

[Darkness_Falls]

I guess I haven't paid too much attention to how light reflects off of NCPs in recent games, but will she reflect colored lights in her surroundings? For instance, if she's standing in front of a fireplace, will the fabric reflect the orange'ish lights of the flames?

[Springheel]

I actually like her better in game than I did in your original screenshot.

[sparhawk]

It looks good! In the beginning I was somehow afraid that the ingame models wouldn't stand up to the screenshots, because there were the argument that they will not look as good as the original models. I'm very glad that this doesn't seem to be true. The Revenant looks really cool and the woman as well. Good work!

[oDDity]

Yes, the models do get lit by dynamic lightsources DF.

I changed her head for this model and made it more conventionally pretty.

I was also apphrehensive about how well I would be able to transfer the models in-game, but I'm quite happy with the results, though 'could do better' is permenanly engraved on the surface of my brain.

[sparhawk]

Don't know about "could do better" It looks pretty good to me, and it certainly looks MUCH better than any models we can see in T3. Not even talking about the crap animations in T3.

[BlackThief]

really awesome!

 

I think I might tinker with gloss maps as well on this to see if if helps.

yeah I think the reflections would look even more realistic with a gloss map.

[Fingernail]

That IS absolutely fantastic.

 

I think I'm in love <3

[pakmannen]

Amazing

 

Edit - On a second look, I gotta say it kinda looks like she's wearing latex though

[oDDity]

OK this is finished now. I'll do the elite house guard next.

[Darkness_Falls]

Amazing

 

Edit - On a second look, I gotta say it kinda looks like she's wearing latex though

I dunno... not really to me. To me it looks like that shiny silk stuff.

[Renzatic]

Looks perfectly fine to me.

 

I'd hit it.

[god_is_my_goldfish]

absolutely perfect, great job!

 

One question though, for the animations, how will her walking look with the dress and all?

[Ishtvan]

Wow.. speechless. Don't have anything useful to say, just wanted to throw in my support for an awesome model.

[Darkness_Falls]

I thought this fabric maybe matched the fabric you're recreating pretty well, oDDity:

http://3dtronic.webbied.com/textures08/ful...es/DSC00006.jpg

Not sure if it's usable, however.

[oDDity]

ACtually my fabric is a little shiner that the piocture I was using as a reference, but I like like this, I could easily make it less specular, but I won't.

[sparhawk]

With your models I'm never sure. Is this now the final modeled fabric, or is this your reference?

[Macsen]

Looks very nice oDDity.

[oDDity]

What abut being able to frob rings/necklaces off AI like this. Are we having that, and how will it work. I guess they'll have to be separate objects, so I shoukln't model any on to the characters.

Frobbable jewelry looked absolutely ridiculous in T3.

[Renzatic]

I'd keep the specularity on the dress, I think it looks better that way.

[Darkness_Falls]

I also think we should keep her dress that specular.

[sparhawk]

If an object should be frobable it must be a seperate object. The major problem is not to remove the object, because I think Id solved this with applying transparency on the relevant parts. The bigger problem is the highlight. Currently I can only highlight an entire model. If the jewelry would be part of the model, I would need to define a system where I can specify which part of the model should highlight. Don't know how to do this. Which doesn't mean that it can't be done, only that it would require some effort to learn how to do it and implement it. If we really want this, then it certainly should be something for later, as it is not a strict requirement for the core gameplay.