WIP Animals

[Nym Traveel]

The thing of being too round is probably caused by the renderer on p3d and/or blender (the )linked images. Normally you want things to look roundish (does that word exist? ) and so the renderers get a dynamic smoothing going on (in C4d it's called the phong-tag, don't know the exact name on the other packages atm). If you set wireframes on on p3d you'll see the exact faces and how this will look without smoothening ingame.

 

[glasz]

basilix nice cat too I'll try to draw a few sheep heads so that you see what i mean...

 

[Immortius]

Don't know about p3d, but in blender it isn't just a rendering issue - when you mesh looks like that, the vertices are shared by the polygons and have a single normal. To get exact faces without smoothing in-game you need to unsmooth the mesh - this splits the vertices so they have a different normal for each polygon. The quick way to do it is to set Shading to flat. But I believe you can do it on a case-by-case basis as well.

We could do this as part of the Terasology mesh importer, but I like leaving it in the control of artists.

 

[basilix]

I used 3dsmax to make those models and i used "smooth" modifier on them for some of faces. I made the same cat in the blender this time, first time using so dont know if there is any setting for smoothness but when i put that one to p3d it become all smooth http://p3d.in/E4Dw0
It look like the attached file in the blender...

 

[Immortius]

Looks fine in Blender (assuming you don't want smoothing. I guess the other question is whether you are exporting the normals.

 

[Cervator]

Aha, I did think they looked oddly smooth.

 

[glasz]

Ah it looks better that way. Really nice cat

 

[Double_A]

I modeled a chicken: http://p3d.in/OpQg7
What do you think?

@Devs: It has over 200 Polygons... Do you think this could be a problem with a chicken model? E.g. If there will be henhouses where many of this model will be thogheter...


basilix
The ears could be a bit wider and more to the sides... Because they almost look like horns

 

[Cervator]

I'm still not an artist, so don't take me too seriously - but I think that Chicken would be a worthy fit for Skyrim! I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing for fitting into Terasology

Edit: basilix + Double_A - make an intro post over in the Contributor Intro forum so I can badge you as artist contributors - and everybody post your Blender files somewhere if you can, if they aren't magically contained on that fancy hosting site

 

[basilix]

Soo seeing how you guys have pony avatars, i wanted to make a pony. But a normal pony would be boring so i wanted it to be zombie pony Well the thing is it wont be a zombie unless someone makes a texture
BTW i put em on the github and sended a pull request, if you think it would be messy with sending too many commits i can upload them to dropbox...
https://github.com/MovingBlocks/Terasology/pull/332

 

[glasz]

I couldnt resist making a quick zombi texture for the poney :

 

[Cervator]

glasz - needs a cutie wound

Edit: basilix - I grabbed your pull request so your two models are on GitHub now - thanks a lot, and perfectly put together. Now we just need somebody around here to put them to use in the game!

 

[basilix]

It look quite nice and it kinda reminds me of skeleton jack
I was picturing more of a scene like this;
http://arlene2.deviantart.com/art/My-Little-Pony-Zombies-147035133
BTW suddenly i felt like making a grave, not sure if its a good sing tho xD
And im not sure if it would be useful in a anyway its 2x3

 

[basilix]

Added walking animation to Kiwi, its kinda slow tho.
http://p3d.in/yjQAv

Edit: Forget to add link xD

 

[glasz]

basilix : very nice, i love the style

 

[basilix]

What kind of animations needed btw?

• Walk
• Still_1
• Still_2
• Sleep(tamable maybe?)
• death

Or do we only need run and one still?

 

[Perdemot]

I also would go for a running animation.

 

[glasz]

run, idle (long and varied) and jump considering the cubic nature of the landscape. For the rest it will depend on what game mechanics are implemented i suppose...

 

[Skaldarnar]

I like that kiwi
To keep some structure in the forums, it would be fine if you could post a link in here, too. Maybe it would be a nice idea to edit the post there to keep track of changes done to model. But that's just a suggestion from me, what's your opinion on that, glasz?

 

[glasz]

Well 2 posibilities, either a commit on github, or a download link on that other thread, even when its a WIP. You never know when you gonna get kidnaped by aliens, and it would be a shame to loose all that good art.