Registered: Mar 2001
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made some random rpg stuff.


i dunno, you might want to just freeze trpg and i'll just sit on these until trpg2, when i can convert them myself

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sweet kick ass dude! =)

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Oh those look sweet.!

WELL DONE.

'scuse me, Matty is drooling over my shoulder.

2 thumbs up!

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My gosh..

You just wake up one day and decided to pop one of these out of nowhere?

I need to get 3d Studio..

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lemme find the screens of my old attempts

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starting to pile up...

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HOLY CRAP THOSE LOOK NICE!!!! Great Job Vec!

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Yes they look nice. I wish I had 3d studio max 2.5 so I could curse my nonexistant modelling skillz.

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good job vect

you should make a sweet bone club

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nice

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Those all look very nice vec, good job!

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Bah, not anough color...

Joking, they are wonderful!

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Thats because you dont color models inside the modeling program.

you creat texture skins afterward

Thats half the reason I *hate* modelling for games...
I cant do UVW mapping.
I wish it was more automated.

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True, true.

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heh i dont even know what uvw mapping is. I guess i'll learn when t2 comes out. Yeah and my craXz0red version of 3dsMAX doesnt want to work anymore :O(

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Uh

okay Vectrex, start with a model...
say for example one of your arrows.

how do I go from there, to a tribes model with a skin map?

UVW mapping is breaking a model up into its faces, layed out in a 2D plane so you can edit the skin with a 2D program.

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Yeah and how do i do that with a plugin for a game that isnt released with a program i dont have running right now? i dont know.

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No, but can you do that for Tribes1 with 3DSMax R2.5?

thats what I was saying I cant do

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***drool***


Oops sorry mom...


***Wipes drool off goldenflight's shoulder***

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modelling is easy, the harder part is ...

- keeping down the polys for engine considerations

- making pretty texture maps and lining all the UVWs up nicely.




to make TRIBES models you need MAX2.x and the vicon exporter plugins from dynamix. you also need at least one of the dynamix TRIBES models to steal the bounds box from.


to make TRIBES2 models you need MAX3.x(and since 4 isn't much different im guessing they'll work with 4 but i don't have that kind of money) and the TRIBES 2 exporter from Dynamix (unreleased to the public as yet)


essentially ... make model in different poly counts for distance settings, name them sword 2, sword 16, sword 32, etc. for the different ranges. set their bounding boxes, add the TRIBES specific nodes (for RPG weapons, activate, fire, reload) and animate the model within the nodes time parameters. map, skin, export.

of course that's a horrid simplification, and it's slightly different for T2, but overall T2 models are slightly easier IMO

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so...about that shield you can see over?

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/me says chop off the back
but then again im no skinner

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