What would you like to see...

... actually I believe that it is a Tabard from everything I have read and seen... a Habit was worn by clergy.

 

Re: illithid

I had a thought, I don't know if you could make the tenticals to constantly move, but it would be cool if they were in a more agressive position

 

If we only had a Holocaust Cloak for that guardsman...Keep tryin'. You'll get it.

 

Nah, that's Andre the Giant, from "The Princess Bride." In that scene he's wearing a cloak that's about to be set on fire (it might be asbestos-lined, because it doesn't hurt him at all, just meant to scare some baddies away), I guess that's why it's called a holocaust cloak.

If you've never seen that movie, it really is one of those 'you-absolutely-really-should-go-see-it-tonight-if-you-can' movies. It is lovely in every way.

 

ioannis; since i havent done any animation into toee myself most of my answers will be guesswork, cuchu, or some of the other people who have fiddled with models of weapons probably have more valuable input, but here goes

1. To make the tabard move as though it is cloth, you would either have to set up a seperate bone structure for it; or use cloth systems (which i have pretty much nil experience with at this present point). If you are using cloth systems, it may be better to model it as a 'sheet' type of structure, as opposed to a model with depth (ie your tabard isnt in actuality a blob that is covering part of your model, it is a series of polygons with no 'depth' as such kind of like a.... tortilla... around your model :txtsmilie .... Hope im not being too confusing there, like i said; i've yet to try cloth systems out

2. So far as i know, most weapons in game use a single bone? i could be wrong, but i think that most static weapons are like that, whereas things like the spiked chain/heavy flail have more, to account for the fact that they animate. Again, the people who have already worked with adding new weapons are the experts here I'm not sure how grip-points and things are handled...

3. While i can't say for -sure- how to handle this; the most straightforward approach would be to give the soldier animations for 'at rest sword sheathed' 'draw sword' and so on. The 'grip-point' that i mentioned earlier would obviously have to move on thesword sheathed animation, so that it was situated near the belt.

Sorry that i cant give you much more concrete answers than that but theres several people who have modded in new armour/weapons who probably can add a whole lot more depth.

 

I was definetly oke: you, there. Please don't put Andre the Giant in your model. I was spoofing the proportions of your efforts because he looked giant-ish.

 

i dunno; it'd be a bit of a laugh

 

Not sure how much more I can add. I can confirm that the static weapons only have one bone. The grip point on the model is simply 0,0,0 in your workspace, so when making a new weapon simply place the handle in the center of your scene.

It shouldn't be an issue drawing the weapon as the grip point remains constant to the weapon as it moves and rotates in world space. But I'm not sure how to handle the sword moving from the sheath to the drawn position. Might be able to have the actual sword replace the belt one mid-animation. Don't know how the animations work so I'm not sure if you can set it to equip the weapon in a position other than the default one.

Cuchulainn.

 

Re did the illithid heads yet again

i wanted to make some nice topology so that they are suitable for animation - the old ones were a bit wonky - these new ones i'm happy with.

Will try to get a working version skinned in max soon

the extra tentacles one is for an ulirathid

The head geometry is still a bit off - i'm referring to the tentacles as fixed

 

or we could try this 1.3 million polygon version

:Crazy_Tig

 

WOW. I like all three.

 

ioannis, keyframes and framerate are seperate things

frame rate is a method of describing how many still images are shown over a period of time during an animation - 30fps (30 frames per second) means that 30 still pictures are shown consecutively over the course of each second, creating the illusion of animation.

a 'key frame' is an animation tool. Basically lets say you had an arm with a bone system in it. If you have the arm in an outstretched position, and create a keyframe of that, then move to another frame, say frame 100 and bend the arm, then create a second keyframe there, the sowftware will generally interpolate an animation between frames 0 and 100 that moves from totally unbent/outstretched to the new bent position.

Creating keyframes at frames 1/2/3 will create a VERY short and fast animation, unless you had a very slow framerate like 1fps. Whereas if you did it over 100/200/300, it would take 12-15 seconds, if you were using a framerate of 25-30 fps respectively.

Not quite sure what framerate ToEE runs with...

The shiny effect on the 1.3million polygon illithid was just a procedural texture from zbrush; such an effect would not be translatable into the game (though it could be emulated through use of reflectivity maps, such as some of the existing creatures use).

Max has similar abilities (that are similarly non-translatable) in the material editor.