Hi peeps!

Some of you may know me from pro-x/shockbot/q1a mods etc. Well... I'm not TECHNICALLY a programmer, I do 3d game art for a living professionally.

I did remakes of the Quake1 weapons probably about 2 years ago now, but left them untextured and untouched for the longest time.

Here are the renders from a couple of years ago that I didn't really show anyone. Just did them over the course of a few days. I'll most likely improve the models as it comes time to working on that particular one.

http://www.bendarling.net/temp/ngqw/

As you can see if you look at them side by side comparing the original id software versions with my own, I've tried to keep the silhouette's VERY faithful. I've seen other weapon model remakes around and have no intention of comparing mine with those, or even looking at them (I've seen a couple, but not many). I'm just reworking the id software ones into a more current state. Pushing them into current times hopefully

I'm thinking it's time I dusted them off and started to texture them. I've started with the grenade launcher, that has it's uv's done and now I've started texturing it.



This week when I dusted them off I thought it might be beneficial to model proper high poly versions of the weapons, but I stopped about 3/4 the way through on the grenade launcher, simply because the old designs that were made to suit low poly... really just don't benefit from being translated into high polygon counts. Sure the curves are smooth, but there's really not a whole lot going on that makes it worthwhile. Especially when it comes to the time taken vs the free time I have available

Anyways, that's enough blabbing from me. Let me know what you guys think. Oh and if you think they suck, it's hazeus's fault, he pointed me here to post!

That looks fucking rad. Nice work man. That's what I think of when I think of the QuakeWorld nade launcher. An industrial looking tube that spits out pines. PTUNG PTUNG. CLING CLANG CLANG. BOOM! BOOM!

Nice work man! What file format are you using (md3, mdl, ???)?

Oh, electro... those are nice. Same ETA as your bots? or can we expect these a bit sooner?

lol, hey man if i take the blame, i get the fame!!!

Nice.

Thanks everyone!

vegetous: md3, mdl is too wobbly and rubbish of a format (no really, as much as I love quake, this has to be said) :S - i may just do straight conversions of them later on after they're all done though for people who are into that sort of thing.

Zalon: hehe those damn bots are pesky things! I really need to kick things into gear working on those. Talking with Spike atm with getting them running properly in FTE. That'll definitely inspire me to do more on them, having them play in q2 maps! I loved the quake2 dm maps

OMG looks SO GOOD WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD!!?!?!?!? AND INSTALL!?!?!?! MOAR INFO

really nice models
can't wait to try them in-game

This is delicious graphics, i must eat it.

I've made some pretty good progress with the GL texture, nearly done will show by the end of the week.
Meanwhile... it looks like someone has lots their thighpad armor! (yes, this is a super-early teaser for what's to come)
http://www.bendarling.net/temp/ngqw/thighpads_01.jpg

Hot

Hot player model underway?

Awesome work! I hope the next thing you do is a player model ;>

Just one minor comment: could you use something else but imageshack? like bayimg.org? Imageshack only works like 10% of the time for some people (including me)

Zalon: maaaaaaaybe heheh

Falzzi: Yep sorry about that, I'd use my ftp but I can't access it from work. I'll move the image onto my ftp and update the image link.

Ok sorry this is another imageshack link! Will update to my ftp link when I get home

http://img360.imageshack.us/my.php?image=helmet01mo4.jpg

This is so hot...

hehe, ok here's some more

updated helmet:
http://www.bendarling.net/temp/ngqw/helmet_02.jpg

shoulderpad front:
http://www.bendarling.net/temp/ngqw/shoulderpads_01.jpg

shoulderpad back:
http://www.bendarling.net/temp/ngqw/shoulderpads_02.jpg

Electro: http://www.quaketastic.com/ !
I can't wait to see the model, you are such a great artist.

Oh my god.

Hawt! However the second shoulderpad screenshot doesn't work

if he makes a nice player model, we'll have to nominate Electro as "honorary QuakeWorld president"

these pics are the best possible way of saying "get md3 support fixed in ezquake".

I'm not really the guy for eyecandy, but this is some hot shit man.
Good job Electro, welcome to QW.nu, and thanks for your contribution to this game!

Use FTE then. However, that not matter of md3 support, but rather cgame/csqc support also, and even this will be supported, there still no mods which support such tehnoligies.

But yeah, Electro did some nice shit, btw, may we ask in which company you work? May be we seen your 3d art in some games?

haha thanks everyone

Spirit: I don't want to litter Willem's pages with work in progress images
Zalon: doh! sorry about that pic not working, ah well you'll see it from other sides soon

qqshka, just check my site if you want to see
it's in my sig

ok boot time!

http://bayimg.com/oAMDKAabg
http://bayimg.com/oamDnAAbg

(put on bayimg to stop falzzirage)

Now I'll probably do the belt.

Looking great!

Still, PLEASE USE SOME OTHER IMAGE HOSTING SERVICE LIKE WWW.BAYIMG.ORG . Sorry for the caps but just..dont use imageshack mmkay? It's slower, has ads and is not as reliable as say bayimg.

Took so little time to make that it's probably not even worthy of a post, but whatever... at least there will be a log of stuff I've done this way.

belt:
http://bayimg.com/aAmejaABg

*click*

Ok another part for today...
This one is based purely off the base texture... so it may still need some work, can always come back to it later and make any changes, but it'll do for now!

Torso Armor:
http://bayimg.com/aaMffaABg