Wizard Model Attempt

[thadiusofx3]

My first attempt at any sort of character modeling

[Joe M.]

wow, I'd forgotten all the shortcuts that xen-quality graphics offer--no need to mess around getting a beautiful character, 'cause nobody's going to look to closely.

Looks good!

[Karl G.]

sweeeeet

boned?

[9sam1]

he aint got no face or hands! lol but gj man thats good.

[Serenity]

could always be a pix

[thadiusofx3]

I haven't added a face or hands yet

Just finished the rigging, and it's looking pretty awesome.
I gotta go to work now and I won't be back til like 1AM, but then I'll try and whip up a quick walking animation to test it out and I'll post it.

[Karl G.]

that's awesome! Blender format?

[thadiusofx3]

whatever format you want it in
I'm not sure if I'll get that video done tonight, I'm pretty tired and I gotta go back in at 11 in the morning, so I might just go to bed.

[thadiusofx3]

arg having some troubles animating (not actually getting the bones to conform to the mesh and move it accordingly, but actually getting the keyframes to work

[Karl G.]

Thad--as long as you can export a boned .X model, I can write a quick utility to put it into certain poses. If you write the animations and export them I cant use the results anyway.

Hey--there are no vertices with more than 1 bone influence right?

[thadiusofx3]

well it's hard not to cross over because I'm using weight painting to weight the mesh, so probably

is that gonna be a problem?

Do i need to name the bones something useful for you?

[Karl G.]

Yes, please name the bones. Vertex influences will be a problem, but I might be able to write a script to sort them out a bit. Be careful not to have more than two, or the script will become exponentially more difficult to write.

[thadiusofx3]

i'm pretty sure theres not more than 2 per vertex

having a little trouble with the export script, it keeps giving me an error

[Karl G.]

Ugh. Well it doesn't really need to be .X, can you export to another animated format?

[David T.]

See, I knew .X was a SOB of a format. Someday I'll care enough to write my own file type exporter for max.

[secretrk1313]

you should export in 3ds i find that one pretty good

[David T.]

That last post was so sad I started laughing.

[Karl G.]

Hey Thad--

Could you post the model without bones or animation? I'm going to try whipping up a model rigger/animator sometime (a while from now...), and I'd like to have a source model.

Karl

[thadiusofx3]

yeah sure lemme whip it up real quick

[thadiusofx3]

ugh still having problems with it
apparently deleting the bones leaves some root_bon global variable that I dunno how to delete

[thadiusofx3]

Here, i made a model of a man lol

http://poorserver.no-ip.org/projectvolu ... ion/man2.x

pic:

[Karl G.]

omg thats perfect...exactly the low level of detail we need. The face is a bit wonky but hey, no biggie.

Karl

[thadiusofx3]

yeah faces are definitely not my strongpoint lol

[Joe M.]

looks like he's been tortured with a giant panini-maker.

I'm sure he'll look fine when put in-game, though.

[Liberate My Madness]

Yeah, he will be fine next to all the other poorly animated charactars lol.


But honestly, it's pretty good xen-quality!