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[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Thanks, guys. Here's the finished concept model:

 

EDIT: also added Westernesse to the T3A site: http://goo.gl/EOQtK

[Rider of Rohan]

Looks neat might i ask if it'll have eyes ?

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Uh, it has eyes.

[Art]

Neat, really? What at it with topology?

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Well, I was topologizing it earlier and it crashed halfway through, so I started working on something else to cool off my frustration. Such that I haven't topologized it yet.

[Art]

I suggest using DynaMesh if you do not care topology, and then make retopology, if you add the game.
Well, or use smooth brush on the model.

[Rider of Rohan]

Well I mean it looks like it just was the sockets but no eyes my bad, still really cool though.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Update: Getting there with animations for the Hulk.

[NewErr]

I'm really interested how it will look textured . Looks good until now.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

OK, it's been ... a while, and I've been stuck with a problem on animating ugly up there ^. Obviously his polycount's been far reduced to fit the game, completely textured and all that, but in 3DS Max 8, I've created a skeleton using the tool Systems>Bones and bound the mesh to it using a Skin modifier. I then animated it, exporting the mesh, skeleton and animation to different W3D files. Yet in W3D View, for one problem, you can still see the bones on the model, and the second issue is that when you run the animation just the bones move, as if they're not tethered to the mesh at all. And clue where I've gone wrong, or am I going in the complete wrong direction?

[Ridder Geel]

You need to go to the last tab in 3ds max and then the W3D options (or something like that, gotta do it out of my head atm...) and then you need to disable the export mesh and only leave the export bones option enabled

Does the skin modifier work with W3D? Don't you need to use that WWSkin or something like that for it to work? (or have you not bound a mesh before?)

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

The latter, it's first time binding. I half-followed the IK tutorial on T3A.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

And yup, seems like Skin modifiers aren't the way forward after all, will retry a tutorial.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

For now, the Hulk's sitting on a dusty shelf whilst I animate something a little less complicated; the Wretch:

 

I'll post some of its animations when more are done.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Fully animated in-game working Wretch:

 

 

CommandSet is as yet incomplete due to game.dat difficulties.

Thanks to Bofur for coding this into the game.

[njm1983]

Its... kind of creepy.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Oh. That's good. It wasn't really designed on the flowers and teddybears theme  . 

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

[MattTheLegoman]

That looks sweet - what ideas do you have for the fortress upgrades?

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Currently I've got an Arrow Tower, a Wall Hub, and a Sacrilegious Pyre, the last of which adds to Westernesse's cheery mood by being a pile of dead Valar-faithful warriors and civilians.

I get the feeling round here people don't like this morose tone for a BFME mod, can't explain why.

Also, you can see the entire tech tree (minus spellbook) here: https://code.google....enoreansFaction, units, buildings and their subsidiary commands.