Builder Haunts?

[oDDity]

What's wrong with using it just because doom uses it?

Are we going to avoid calling our zombies 'zombies' becasue doom have creatures of the same name?

Doom didn't invent revenant, it's in the dictionary and has been used in other games and movies.

It's as broad a term as zombie, so I dont see any problem with it.

Edited March 23, 2005 by oDDity

[SneaksieDave]

That looks fucking fantastic. Even better than expected (based on the not-officially-textured builder guy results). That guy's going to be a classic, guaranteed. It's got me really wondering what the builder dood will look like fully textured...

[Springheel]

We just have to be sure our filename is different than the D3 revenant, to avoid conflicts.

[Macsen]

What about Heretic?

[sparhawk]

We just have to be sure our filename is different than the D3 revenant, to avoid conflicts.

That's why I propsoed long ago to use dm_ or tdm_ in front of our files. tdm_ is probably better because dm could also mean Doom.

[Renzatic]

So could tdm..it's Team Deathmatch. I've been naming all my files darkmod_blah to avoid conflicts.

[Domarius]

I guess I only ever heard "Revenant" used in Doom. Yeah it does sound cool all the same.

[Corth]

Revenant is used everywhere actually. Warcraft3, D&D, Dungeon Siege, Diablo2 and there's even a game that is called "Revenant".

 

It wouldn't be new to alot of gamers, but it's still a kick ass name for a kick ass bad guy.

 

Great work as always oDDity!

[oDDity]

THis is it with some animaitons.

It may be undead and have no brain, but it's not a complete philistine. This is it admiring a painting while I sneak up to BJ it.

[oDDity]

...and it hasn't got a sword yet, so it's using its fists.

This is it trying to punch my teeth out.

[_Atti_]

looks great

 

how much does it affect fps?

 

btw..you should place back the polys on the inside of his shoulder-armors..i guess you see what i mean

Edited March 27, 2005 by _Atti_

[god_is_my_goldfish]

Damn fine work.

[Macsen]

It looks really great oDDity. But are you sure about that feet proportion thing? His boots look absolutely bloody huge in the first shot, even taking the perspective into account.

[Darkness_Falls]

No worries, Macsen, he's wearing moon boots to keep his bony toes warm

[Napalm]

Looks awwwwsome, my only complaint i that the chain shaders and the torn cloth look kinda bad(not yur fault, the game juss doesnt render them well), and the boots are massive, but I kinda like that personally

Edited March 28, 2005 by Napalm

[oDDity]

Well, if you can do a better one you're quite welcome to try.

[Darkness_Falls]

I don't want to try

[Ishtvan]

Btw we have rattling chain sound effects. I don't know if this is the best place to say this, but someoen was asking about haunt sound effects earlier.. we have rattling chains for the idle/walking anim.

[god_is_my_goldfish]

The boots look fine to me, the only problem i've ever had with odd's character's boots is when they move and the points on the front look kinda funny. Otherwise it definetly seems to work well.

[oDDity]

As I've said (many times) when in the game, the boots regain their proper size due to perspective.

Anyway, the feet are the least important part of a model, they recive the least polys and the smallest amount of UV texture space, the head being the opposite.

There is no way to make the chains anything other than cardboard cut-outs from square polygons without using thousands of extra polys, so they will just have to suck. They can't even cast shaows either, so they will have to suck even more.

Edited March 28, 2005 by oDDity

[sparhawk]

That's what I never understood. Why have the boot to be bigger? If I look at a person I usually do this form the eye perspective and the persons all look ok. Why should the boots be made bigger?Perspective is always the same. Can you show a sample with normal boots and bigger boot side by side?

[Springheel]

D3 uses a forced perspective that is much harsher than real life.

[oDDity]

All game engines have exaggerated perspective. Look at that model running around in the game and you won't notice the size of the boots.

[oDDity]

..and considering there are 70 character models to do (and I'll be doing the most of those) I haven't got time for nitpicking over little details.

[_Atti_]

well..we wont really come across that model in light so in the dark these minor things wont really matter;)