Re: [Isugamedev-midworld] the models

[Josh B. <br...@vr...>]

Andres, 

I'd like to bang out the last remaining models with you, and work on 
animation stuff as well.  Is there sometime (basically any time works for 
me) that you and I could sit down for like 4 hours and just work together 
on completing the models?

Joshy


On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Josh Brown wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 and...@mc... wrote:
> 
> > the turret should be a chaingun turret, isn't it? I
> > think it'd look weird shooting rockets... dunno. I can
> > make you a rocket no prob.
> 
>   The turret is a chain gun.  I didn't really mean rockets per say, what I
> really was thinking was bullets that were about twice or three time as big
> as the current bullets.  The problem that we have right now is that you
> can't tell you're being hit very easily (since we don't have the camera
> shake - which would be a cool feature - and there is no sound associated
> with the player getting hit by a bullet yet).  So the first logical step
> is to increase the bullet size so it is easier to see hitting you.  Then
> we'll add in teh sound and camera shake and extra stuff later if there's
> time.
> 
> >
> > The guy:
> >
> > I started making a guy, but it's a bitch. He's also
> 
> The guy is a bitch or making him is a bitch? :)
> 
> > gonna be kind of high poly I'm affraid, I'll see if I
> 
> high poly = bad.  I came up with 1580 polygons like this:
> 
> head = 200 polys
> torso = 180 polys
> each hand = 18 polys per finger + 32 for the hand = 122 * 2 hand = 244
> forearm = 90 polys * 2 = 180
> upper arm = 90 polys * 2 = 180
> upper leg = 90 poly * 2 = 180
> lower leg =  90 poly * 2 = 180
> foot = 118 poly *2 = 236
> 
> all this adds up to 1580.  We can probably cut corners in the game to not
> display so much so that if the best you can do is like 1800 or 2000 then
> that is what we'll have to.  But really try for that 1580 mark.
> 
> 
> > can keep to your constraints.  How do you want him
> > broken up exactly? like pivots of each part at the
> > origin? How do you want the hands? do you want them in a
> > gun holding position, or should I break up the upper and
> > the forearm so that you can position it all correctly?
> 
> So I just reviewed some info on keyframing and animation and specifically
> animations with 3ds.  Do you know how to do a skeletal animation in 3ds?
> If you do, or if you want to learn how to do it (it is actually pretty
> easy to learn if you alredy know max, from what i hear anyway) then this
> would be a snap.
> 
> Let me know if you know how to do the skeletal stuff and if not then we'll
> explore other options.
> 
> Josh
> 
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