Official 3D art thread - Warband

[theAthenian]

That looks superb.

 

[ilovemyhedgehog]

Whats better for rigging triangles or quads? Or does it not matter?

 

[Soil]

Quads are easier to work with but most engines can only handle tris, that's why people usually keep things as quads until they finally export it to the format they use for the game.

 

[ilovemyhedgehog]

Quads are easier to work with but most engines can only handle tris, that's why people usually keep things as quads until they finally export it to the format they use for the game.

Oh makes sence.

 

[Bayard-X]

Can I use multimeshing for scabbards?

How do scabbards actually work?


(The Renaissance mod has a couple of scabbardless swords we want to be given a scabbard. Multimeshing would seem intuitively excellent for that job...)

 

[xenoargh]

Yes, you can use multimesh; bear in mind that if the multimesh uses two materials, it increases costs, but for scabbards, if you're re-using them a lot it doesn't matter that much.

They work by using a vertex animation; frame 0:0 is default, 1:10 is default, 2:20 is hidden (basically, just shrink the hilt and hide within the scabbard, or move it so far underground that nobody will see it), 3:30 is apparently not used and not necessary.

 

[Specialist]

almighty banhammer

48 faces not triangulated
100 faces triangulated

Anybody know a free program to make normalmaps, speculamaps and all those things?

The normalmap plugin for gimp (pm me if you need a know-how)
or CrazyBump.

 

[joseph590]

Crazy bump whould work nice on that

 

[mr.master]

Or if you have photoshop and have the money, ndo2. Prolly the best option.

 

[rgcotl]

just reworked an old armor and helmet i did 6-8 months before + new boots
also here is an small update on mine plume with looks a lot better than all others mine old plumes (just reconstructed it with new idea)

Spoiler: helmet.gif

Edit for some reason i have found that google docs changing picture links so here is the link at google doc page

Spoiler: google link for gif image

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9r1XKIe1BU6NDc0ZDM5MGQtYjUyNS00MzZlLTk4MWItNzFkNDdhMTVkODJi

triangles = 1972 (608 for plume + 1364 for metal parts)
(plume haven't reall texture, only the height map with i used for normal maps and openbrf color unifrom)

Spoiler: armor.gif

triangles = 1382

Spoiler: google link for gif image

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9r1XKIe1BU6OTk5MjNiMTktZGJhYy00NjMzLTkzYTAtOGY5YzAxNmY2MzBh&hl=en_US

Spoiler: openbrf combined character view

Spoiler: game screens

and here is an quite old version

Spoiler: old helmet giff

Spoiler: old armor giff

Spoiler: old game screens

 

[Count of Flanders]

Definitely an improvement, damn man, that's one hot armour 

 

[SupaNinjaMan]

Your normals on the sleeves are too intense.

 

[xenoargh]

@rgcotl:  Great improvement

Spoiler: minor crits

I think that you should use AO burns in OpenBRF on the helmet and armor, use a specular coef of 10,9,8 for the helmet (that will give the specular a bit of color and make it look more like bronze) and I agree that the cloth was over-done and should probably be re-adjusted.

 

[Crazy-Q]

Whats better for rigging triangles or quads? Or does it not matter?

Triangles are the most basic, 3d, polygonal form.  (Only 3 vertices.)  Quads are easy but tris are infinitely more valuable to work with. 

Not exactly a 3d model, but I've been working on the semblance of a rendering engine.  Currently I've got heightmap generation, so I used it to make this Darth Vader face.   

Spoiler

 

[Kmovies]

epicly weird! looks very interesting.

i'm still learning c basic . shoo.

 

[theAthenian]

Spoiler: helmet.gif

[/spoiler]

I love it.

 

[Bayard-X]

Brilliant!

 

[ilovemyhedgehog]

I got my dog model down to 6436 polys.

 

[Specialist]

pic?

 

[ilovemyhedgehog]

pic?

Spoiler

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Might need to be tweaked a bit.