Duke Nukem 3D Modelling Project part 3

[TerminX]

This is a continuation of this thread.

[Tea Monster]

Start with a bang!

Here is the rotating Cycloid Head in game. I will release tomorrow.

[Brother Grabbag]

looks very cool Tea Monster! can't wait to DL that thing.

[DeeperThought]

That CE model sure has a great death animation. It really stands out from the other models, which fall like planks of wood when they die.

[gt1750]

That looks pretty good

[Tea Monster]

Thank you .

@ Deeper Thought - The animations went through a LOT of revisioning during the beta phase! It's good to have them appreciated. Thanks!

[KillerBudgie]

Hm! Decided to do a third thread for the 'Modelling Project' and the 'Enhancing Duke's Spritely Appearance', huh?

[Mr.Fibbles]

Originally Posted by KillerBudgie

Hm! Decided to do a third thread for the 'Modelling Project' and the 'Enhancing Duke's Spritely Appearance', huh?

I think when you get to over 2000 post on a thread people could use to keep track of what has been done, it is good to split it up.

I too noticed the death animation was superb. it was very close to the original.

any thoughts on making the ending movie? (The "Game Over" scene with Duke kicking the eye ball through the goal post)

[lycanox]

I Don't know.
It would be handier to split each time an pack goes public, so people would only have to dig through to the new threat to find stuff that isn't in it yet.

Not that i have any experience moderating an forum.

[Dennis J]

Cycloid Emperor: where can I download?

[Tea Monster]

Originally Posted by Mr.Fibbles

any thoughts on making the ending movie? (The "Game Over" scene with Duke kicking the eye ball through the goal post)

There are plans afoot by various parties to do this. I'm not sure as to exactly when. For me it would mean re-rigging and weight-painting the duke character in Blender (as he was created in Max). Same in reverse for Parkar with the Cycloid.

@ Dennis J - Here's the Cycloid download link:

http://www.uploadtemple.com/view.php/1171036717.zip

[NightFright]

@ Piterplus:
You must also edit X-Files jar broken skin! The alien cannot turn slime green suddenly when you shoot it!

@ Tea Monster:
Good holo head. Perhaps you could do something similar for Battlelord...?

[Tea Monster]

Cheers! Can do. I need a .blend or .obj from from Hellbound. He may want to do it himself anyway.

I've sent Piterplus the PS file for the broken skin.

[Mr.Fibbles]

Originally Posted by Tea Monster

There are plans afoot by various parties to do this. I'm not sure as to exactly when. For me it would mean re-rigging and weight-painting the duke character in Blender (as he was created in Max). Same in reverse for Parkar with the Cycloid.

@ Dennis J - Here's the Cycloid download link:

http://www.uploadtemple.com/view.php/1171036717.zip

well, technically, Parkar would only have to have the dead Cycloid. I guess the easiest way I can think of is exporting the corpse frame. the hard part might be breaking off the eye, but even that isn't that hard.
I think you should be able to export just that frame or something.

[Tea Monster]

None of that is really that difficult. The bit that is challenging is that you are in effect making a little 'pixar-style' movie as none of the rendering is done in game.

You have to make a 3D stadium, light it, shoot it and render the whole thing in your 3D app. of choice.

None of it is particularly 'difficult'. Just kinda time-consuming. Its going to be a lot of fun though!

[Mr.Fibbles]

the most time consuming thing is often the rendering process. camera motion can be tedious too.
I made a video for a project once, did the whole thing in Blender. something like 800 frames. It took an entire day to render the whole thing. I ran many mini renders to test timing etc, that took time. But this was a movie for me to add my voice in the background. I had it synced up to a poem and everything. Got an A.

for the stadium, you only have to make like a fourth of the whole thing. just mirror it on the x and y.

[L2theKING]

Well now let's talk about the QUEEN model... I need someone to optimize the mesh and unwrap the model... I asked to Tea Monster but he is too busy these days and he worked like a god damn fool on the CE on the past few monts so I need a fresh recrute... Any one... ? Roma Loom, what do u say...?? Then maybe gt1750 could do the texture and in the meantime I would start to rig and animate the beast... I supoz that this bitch could be out befor the next HRP relase ! All I need is talented guy with some free time!

[ilovefoxes]

Queen shots please!
Queen shots please!!

Okay, okay, now only Overlord missing!

[L2theKING]

@ ilovefoxes: http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showpo...postcount=1437

[Roma Loom]

@L2theKING: I'd love to give it a try even though I have only few hours a day to spend on it. 3ds max 7 or obj format if you can.

[gt1750]

L2, I can do the skin after the optimizations, but I can't start before 22nd Feb.
Anyway, don't forget to update the To Do List!

For others:

How come anyone didn't notice this? It's not even on NightFright's Ep.1 To Do List - 0991 (shower in E1L3) It's the same as tile 572, which is unused in the game.

[Alexander Filippov]

As to Cycloid Emperror. My version CE painskin. W.I.P.

I was most of all amazed with blood. It is very similar to apricot jam.

[Parkar]

Originally Posted by lycanox

I Don't know.
It would be handier to split each time an pack goes public, so people would only have to dig through to the new threat to find stuff that isn't in it yet.

Not that i have any experience moderating an forum.

Considering I will be making the installer as soon as I get my internet connection at home (hoping for this week or at the begining of the next at the latest) this is pretty close to a new release anyway.

[Piterplus]

Originally Posted by NightFright

@ Piterplus:
You must also edit X-Files jar broken skin! The alien cannot turn slime green suddenly when you shoot it!

@ Tea Monster:
Good holo head. Perhaps you could do something similar for Battlelord...?

I'll do it, I just received psd from Tea Monster.

[NightFright]

@gt1750:
Ah yeah, the shower stuff. Didn't see that one, too. Like the bar sign in E1L2 which has just been made. Can happen.

[Roma Loom]

I've just done the mesh for #0991, think I'll finish the uv and the skin during the dinner...

[gt1750]

Originally Posted by Alexander Filippov

As to Cycloid Emperror. My version CE painskin. W.I.P.

I was most of all amazed with blood. It is very similar to apricot jam.

Don't make the blood too bright. Look at the painskins in SD_Duke and make like that.

[Alexander Filippov]

Originally Posted by gt1750

Don't make the blood too bright. Look at the painskins in SD_Duke and make like that.

Okay.

[Piterplus]

http://members.lycos.co.uk/piterplus...esjarbroke.png

[MagNet]

0578 - Reactor WIP



The skin needs A LOT of work and I know it.

[gt1750]

0578 is a reactor? I thought it's some kind of futuristic holo globe.

EDIT: GRPViewer says it's reactor2... well I confused that with another tile
Anyway 0578 isn't used in the game at all, but I saw it in few usermaps.

[MagNet]

Well it's called reactor in the .art files.

[Tea Monster]

Tile 0490

The Rotating Cycloid Emperor Head



Grab it!

@ everyone - Great work guys! It's really coming together. Like the new skin for the jar. The cracks look good. Glad the Queen is coming together as well. The Reactor looks great as well! As to the CE's death skin. I originally did a more 'natural' blood color, but it dosen't show up in game. I had to ape the 'mango chutney' look for it to be visible at all!

[MagNet]

Looking better now imo, time to start with the broken skin.

[MagNet]

Broken skin WIP

[Dr. Kill]

Originally Posted by gt1750

Don't make the blood too bright. Look at the painskins in SD_Duke and make like that.

I had a special technique when I did the original painskins. I don't quite remember it though, it's been a while. All I know is I did it in layers, added different ammounts of blurring, and layer blending, and messed with the color saturation to get it to look how it did. I should really mess with that again.

[L2theKING]

To do list status : UPDATED
@ Roma Loom: PM me your e-mail please. So I'il send a MAX 7 version of the QUEEN !

[Tea Monster]

The Battle Lord head is done. I just need to do the skin and export.

[NightFright]

@ Tea:
Congrats for the Cycloid hologram, it looks very nice in E2L5. I am confident Battlelord will look similarly cool!

Everything's working automatically now... I will just post updated todo lists when stuff has been done. Hehehe. That's the way - aha-aha - I like it...

I cannot imagine what it would be like if we got together ALL of the bosses for HRP release! MUHAHAHA! MUHUAHUAHUAHUAAHUAHAAA!!! <evil, world domination-style laughter>

[Brother Grabbag]

no more sugar for you