Elysian Shadows

trufun202 wrote:

OrinCreed wrote:Trufun. Your Vortella model looks pretty good. I haven't played this game before but you came up with a cool interpitation of the sprite work. I noticed you have a little bit of texture pull on your UV space [the tentacles on its head] but it's nothing major. I still have problems with that myself. The scales look great, how exactly did you go about making them?

Thanks Orin, I use the following apps for my models:

1. Milkshape 3D - 3D modeling
2. Unwrap 3D - UV Mapping (which yes, I kinda suck at...getting it perfect takes way too much patience)
3. CharacterFX - Rigging and animation
4. FragMOTION - Animation Labeling and Export to Ogre XML

GyroVorbis wrote:Hey, Trufun. I'm very interested in talking NPC AI concepts with you like we did with Lua textbox stuff (which I still haven't implemented. Can you show me where we discussed it? I had everything figured out, but now I can't remember, ROFL).

Are your friendly NPCs going to be walking around? I'm sure this is mostly for enemies. So how is it going to work? Are they going to have their own heartbeat in Lua? Actually, how do your snakes work? Is that hardcoded into your engine?

int waypointCount = rand() % 6 + 4;

		for (int i = 0; i < waypointCount; i++)
		{
			int x = rand() % Radius + WayPointPosition.x;
			int y = WayPointPosition.y;
			int z = rand() % Radius + WayPointPosition.z;
			walkList.push_back(Vector3(x, y, z));
		}

		//setup the first destination
		destination = walkList.front();
		walkList.pop_front();

		//put this destination back in the list, so it loops
		walkList.push_back(destination);

if PlayerCollidesWith("randar") and not ConversationActive() then

		convo = CreateConversation("Randar", "I am Randar.  For 150 gold, I can increase thy\npower for thee.")
		convo:AddOption("Okay", "RandarYes")  -- sets the RandarYes() Lua method to be executed when "Okay" is selected
		convo:AddOption("No Thanks", "RandarNo")  -- sets the RandarNo() Lua method to be executed when "No Thanks" is selected
		convo:ShowWithDelay(1)

		randar = GetNPC("randar")
		randar:PlayAnimation("Idle", true)
		SwitchCameraTo(randar, 10, -20)
end

OrinCreed wrote: When you were painting the scales on your texture did you do them all by hand or cheat with a plug-in like stained glass? I've never made anything with scales before and it would be interesting to know how you pulled it off.

trufun202 wrote:

OrinCreed wrote: When you were painting the scales on your texture did you do them all by hand or cheat with a plug-in like stained glass? I've never made anything with scales before and it would be interesting to know how you pulled it off.

With this tutorial, the scales were pretty damn easy.

http://www.photoshop-dragon.com/Tutoria ... Scales.htm

JS Lemming wrote:That was... brilliant. I found the code illegible but it was still awesome.

M_D_K wrote:If you squint your eyes it reads better

trufun202 wrote:Right now its only 20gig, total. So after everything else, I have about 1 gig to play with.

trufun202 wrote:Right now its only 20gig, total. So after everything else, I have about 1 gig to play with.

trufun202 wrote:I've gotten some pretty good feedback on my last "Behind the Scenes" video. Alot of people have asked for another one, so here it is:

(...and now I have the sudden urge to go play some Megaman 2.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK--q7jPYmI