some HD stuff for use with quoth!

[talisa]

just finished the version for 3rd skin


so thats 3 down, 3 more to go!

[talisa]

decided to do version for 4th skin first cuz there arent much details you can model in
that version and i just like this one more overall then 3rd version.. skulls! <3

the skulls on 4th version are just bigger and placed further apart,
so i could modify the beam from 3rd skin version for this one.


so thats 4 down now, just 2 more to go

[MadGypsy]

The relief is too "hot" on the brown bricks. Also, mortar never falls on vertical corners of a completed brick structure, it's actually impossible.

[talisa]

@gypsy
hmm yes you're right, perhaps i overdid the relief-effect and made the bricks be pushed out to far on the brick version.

adjusted the relief-effect to make it half as strong as before

especially the beam looks much better now

[talisa]

decided to make one small change to the design of 4th version which i felt improves the overall look of the braziers


felt it looked a little odd that the bottom of the base-parts didnt have the same style as the top edge
and that the texture from the curved middle just continued over to the bottom.

so i decided to try how it looks if the same texture from the top part was copied over to bottom,
and i feel it looks a lot better this way. it makes more sense this way and makes the design feel more complete

[talisa]

WIP of version for 4th skin:


busy with making the runes appear to be engraved into the beam.
done with front-back mesh, next is doing the sides since those have different runes

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also made a small edit to the version for 3rd skin:

made the blood darker cuz i felt it was to light before.
this looks much better imo, and it looks closer to original this way

[talisa]

more progress:

just finished modelling in the runes on the sides as well

[talisa]

shazaam!

textured the base-parts and added 3D-buttons to the sides of version for 4th skin

so thats 5 done... and just 1 more to go

[talisa]

started on version for 6th and last skin:

texturing is done, next up is to add the 3D details

[talisa]

just finished adding the buttons and making the runes be pressed into the beam:

so... now the 6th version is done too.... which means....
they're all done!

so now i can get to doing preparations for exporting them like doing edge-splittings
and adding the neccesary properties for the plug-in i use to export to md3.

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lets just hope that i can export all versions together as a single md3 and i wont bump some limit,
and that in-game they wont make your machine lag to hell when they are on-screen

[dfsp_spirit]

Looks great, especially the enforcers!

[talisa]

thanx dfsp


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i tested out with the short brazier and i could get it in-game and with working skins!


however.... as soon as i put the model into my quoth setup,
i ran into a problem i was afraid of running in to.... the flames wont animate

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looked into it and found out about the 'synctype' thing from mdl which is normally used to tell the engine to animate the model.
does md3 support this flag too? and if yes, how would i add this flag to an md3 model?

and if not, is there another model format which supports whats needed for my hi-poly models and supports this synctype flag so the flame can animate?

[Spike]

md3 does not support framegroups/animations.
iqm does though.

[talisa]

thanx for the info spike

the fact you called them framegroups reminded me i've heard that term before,
and i looked it up and found out you can use special 'framegroups' files for DP to simulate framegroups!
Modeling for DP | QuakeWiki

and i made a framegroups file for the brazier and now it animates in-game like it should
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SLE8yKkLkI[/ame]

[talisa]

just exported the tall braziers as well and made skin-files for them and such!
so the braziers are finished!

and suprisingly, they seem to have barely any impact on performance at all. (example: 200fps instead of 300)
well, at least not unless there are a whole bunch of them on-screen, but thats very rare to happen

check first post of thread for download-link

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if anybody notices any serious performance-impact from them none-the-less, let me know
and i'll create a version which uses only uses a single model for all skins without modelled details