monsters

[golden_boy]

The original Quake monsters do not have skeletons.

Hence it is not possible to just make the new models use the old animations.

The original Quake models use vertex animation (shape keys in Blender), which is seriously outdated.

I'm pretty sure you can import the original animations into 3ds Max (try Noesis) but you won't magically transform them to skeletal animations, they will be loads of individual frames which isn't something you can use when you do skeletal animation using a proper rig, weight painting etc.

Ruohis, can you post shots of the models without subsurf modifier/smoothing or whatever it is that makes them look rounded? I assume they don't use 100,000 polygons each?

Also, I hope you're going to use IQM for these (Inter-Quake model format). Or at least DPM or whatever the Darkplaces format is called. ^^

I applaud your effort, nice work. Who made the skins?

[talisa]

this project's dead? seeing as there's not been a single reply in half a year

would be a real shame, cuz some of those monsters look awesome, especially the rotfish and the scrag. i would love to have those, especially rotfish since its one of those few monsters left which doesnt have a hi-poly replacement model

the spawn looks great too and id love to have it too cuz it doesnt have a hi-poly replacement model as well

i really hope this project isnt dead

[Phenom]

Bring this thread back!

[talisa]

yeah. i totally hope this project doesnt get lost. those models look great, it would be a huge shame if they wouldnt get finished or the models would even be lost.

would be great that if ruohis doesnt plan to finish them himself if he could perhaps at least share the models so someone else can get a chance at finishing the model and animating them

and this great work doesnt just get lost

[Ruohis]

http://www.ruohis.com/stuff/shalrath.zip

I actually finnished animating one model, here's a preview to try out and help to give some feedback still needs some tweaking here and there but it looks good in game

[talisa]

cools. downloading right away, and im gonna try it out right away

[talisa]

erms... im having trouble trying to get it to show up correctly in darkplaces

i see the model but it wont use the texture you provide but instead show the original shalraths texture on it

could you perhaps help providing me with a version which is set up for use in darkplaces?

cuz i tried everything but it wont show the correct texture on the model

[Ruohis]

Been a while since I.we used darkplaces.
Do the textures go in a seperat folder or the same as the models?
And some engines want the textures named modelname_1.png

[Seven]

... and once again:
Listen to what your console tells you splitterface

It says: The .png has an incorrect depth param.
So convert it to lets say .tga and you will be able to use it.
"textures" folder is the way to go.

Thank you for sharing your work Ruohis !
Did you finish your house restauration ?
It is so good to have you back to Quake.

[talisa]

ah thanx seven.
i did see that error in the console, but i had no clue wtf it meant and how to solve it.
so thanx for telling me the solution


hmm its not bad. although the walk animation looks kinda stiff and choppy. and the texture looks kinda flat. and the upper legs look rather weird cuz they're concave. try making the upper legs more smooth and not so concave.
the shape of upper legs looked better in this pic imo

but except for those points, its definitely not bad for a start


has there been any progress on the scrag, rottweiler, fish and spawn?
cuz im most looking forward to those personally since there's no hi-poly replacements for them yet

[bluntz]

Tried that already...

[talisa]

btw i just wanted to add... the vore's waist also feels to thin imo
try making her waist a little less thin

[Ruohis]

Made large improvements on the animation, the first version, well it was crap and looked like it was suffering from full body tourrets or at least parkinson's disease Also made the texture a bit darker and did a quick head model for the gibs




http://www.ruohis.com/stuff/shalrath.zip

Edit:

Had the improved wizard laying around and made the head model to match, here's it is to try out





http://www.ruohis.com/stuff/wizard.zip

[seanstar]

Hi

ive just been working on the wizard skin a little.






the animations look great.

regards

Sean

[gdiddy62]

Thanks Ruohis! Great animations. CAn we see your stuff Sean?