Rehab Modelling!

[Bwian]

Nope...not dream. There is still some other stuff to come before a release, but the plan is to release a full replacement faction. It will basically replace Gauls with...er...ghouls. I am not sure how the mammoths will affect gameplay, but they are just too much fun to leave out. None of the stats have been changed... just the physical models.

Am I sure there was something wrong with me....er...yes. I have the scars to prove it. Including a nice round shape where the end of the bike handlebars went into the side of my hand....On the plus side, I am finding the laptop easier to get on with than the desktop and this is helping me get some of the ideas I have into polygons. My thumb works fine, where my index and middle fingers don't, the the laptop mouse replacement things work better for me. And I am back on the bike after a 4 month lay-up.

And..Ian of Smeg16....you do know, there is no dark side of the moon...as a matter of fact, it's all dark

[Darren_Shan]

amazing m8!

[Azorex]

Bwian, Great work!!! I came from the searching engine, and... oh, amazed, and much more!!! I have a question: is it will be a free models for use in perspective? I have a friends who makes a War-Immitation project (NONE_COMMERCICAL - people for people as is) on the one russian-language forum. Economics, policy, role playing and battle simulation. The last one is on the modifed R:TW-BI engine. Some kind of late roman imperia and fantasy races mix. Now solves a question about Undead units fraction and it model basis. If you have any interes on this - please, write here, or to the PM. Hope, my pore english will be enough for discussion :D

[Bwian]

Azorex ... drop me a PM and let me know exactly what it is you are planning and how my skeleton units would fit in.

[Bwian]

With the underfed boys all but done, I have turned my attention to some opposition for them!

For those of you familiar with Warhammer 40K ....here is a budding Chaos faction. Cue the Heretics!



more to follow....

[Azorex]

Bwian, it is done. Waiting for response.

[Bwian]

Hooray! The strat map models are done! Spy, diplomat, assassin plus general model for the units on the strat map. Haven't done unit cards for them yet....but I will next!

[nikolai1962]

Fantastic work

[Bwian]

OK...well, the skeletons are available for upload now.... but it runs to about 12Mb compressed. This includes some tweaked animations, which inflates the filesize some. There is a full set of meshes, skins, unit cards, descriptions and strat map models....Any ideas where I can upload this to?

[Pantsalot]

what units r u planning on doing?
right now u seem to have only mentioned
heretics, orcs & skeletons
unless u're just gonna do what comes
into u're head, or just keep it a little
secret???

[Bwian]

It's a 'what I feel like when I feel like it' kind of deal. I haven't planned it, and don't really know right now. I certainly don't have a 'theme' planned to work towards, so I can't give a faction list as such. For Warhammer, you have the races all laid out for you, and can plan around it. This isn't planned. Today...for example...my hand is throbbing and a bit swollen after a bit of enforced DIY...so I won't be modelling till that settles again.

Next on the list might be some reptilian based race to replace Carthage. Smal lstriding reptiles for riding....big lizards for elephant replacements. Crocodilian soldiers. Maybe.

[Epistolary Richard]

Any ideas where I can upload this to?

barocca deals with all things related to uploading files. Alternatively, you can set up an account at the same place the Org uses www.3ddownloads.com

[Bwian]

Textures are not really right yet ( too pale ) but these guys are cold blooded killers

[wlesmana]

The skeleton in the toga should win an RTW modding award!!

[Myrddraal]

The skeleton in the toga should win an RTW modding award!!

Yeah, simple but excedingly cool

[Bwian]

The 'green' party manifesto seemed to include mostly shouting and killing...



And the slogan 'Careless Orc Costs Lives' won them no votes at all.



Of course, it all came to blows....

[Bwian]

ORCS, ORCS, ORCS, ORCS ..... repeat until battle is over.

[Geoffrey S]

Excellent! Is this turning into a proper mod, or just practising to get into it again?

[Patricius]

This looks wonderful. I hope some sort of download will be available.

[Zapp]

Those look good Bwian.

I'm in the Warhammer - Total War mod, and our orcs need all new animations to work well, and we haven't got an animator that wants to do it. If you're interested, could you send one of your orcs so we can modify ours to work as yours?

Also, we haven't got any skellies, except for one model, and if you want, we would gladly use yours with all creds to you of course!
If you want to look at our work, here's some examples:

Empire troops
Orc BigUn
Chaos Khorne warriors

[Bwian]

The Orcs are achieved by a simple trick ....

The Orc needs to have shorter legs in proportion to it's arms, as we all know. You can't shorten the legs without a whole new set of skeletons which cannot be done. There are 'tricks' that involve HUGE numbers of animations and work ... or there is the way I have done it!

The legs are normal, and all animation sets are normal. All I have done is to extend the arms. This means that you cannot use the 'hands' at all. All the lower arm vertices are attached to the forearm bones. The weapons are also attached to the forearms not the hands. It works.

The only down side is when they stand at rest. The arms are held straight down, and looks a bit poor. You also can't go too far, since the arms will still bend in the elbow position and you are increasing the forearm only.

On something more sophisticatd than an orc, this would not look at all right...but I find it completely acceptable!

[methoz]

oh my god... very brulat units