Hah - I haven't picked up QW in like 6 months (and if you are a true QW player, you know what that REALLY feels like) - but the other day I found one-of-my-hundreds-of-backups-of-Quake-on-CD, and decided to fire it up again.
I've been well busy at Uni, but the other day I wanted to do something QW related again. I messaged a couple of guys on MSN to find out how their QW life has been treating them recently - only to hear that they, as well as popular site QWDrama seem to be having some space and leaving the QW scene. : (.
Having spoken to Wandii - yes he is still alive (as is Zedii (me :p)) - we reminisced about the good 'ol days!
QW still needs to live up to it's standards in playability and entertainment. It still does to some extent having browsed around a few servers. However, Wandii came up with some cool Hi-Res movie shots. I came up with below ready to use in a possible feature.
Movie days are always in our blood, but it's just finding the time at the moment.
The examples below demonstrate rigging up a QW Player Model in 3DS (which potentially can be done for ANY model in QW i.e. Shambler, Scrag, Zombie etc.). It took me approximately 3 hours to do a temporary rig of Player. Do bear in mind, that this rigging has been done without any fine tuning to the QW Player model.
When I have time, I'll have to go through each limb and fine tune the QW Model, against the exact parts of a human skeleton (probably about 10-12 hours work). Nevertheless, using 24Bit-Hi-Res textures, the result is quite promising, although rather rubber-man-like at the moment.
Tell me what you guys think:
Movie clip: http://www.zedii.co.uk/qw/qw_balance.mov
Movie clip: http://www.zedii.co.uk/qw/qw_banana.mov
Movie clip: http://www.zedii.co.uk/qw/qw_crazy.mov
Movie clip: http://www.zedii.co.uk/qw/qw_robot.mov
Zayd.
I've been well busy at Uni, but the other day I wanted to do something QW related again. I messaged a couple of guys on MSN to find out how their QW life has been treating them recently - only to hear that they, as well as popular site QWDrama seem to be having some space and leaving the QW scene. : (.
Having spoken to Wandii - yes he is still alive (as is Zedii (me :p)) - we reminisced about the good 'ol days!
QW still needs to live up to it's standards in playability and entertainment. It still does to some extent having browsed around a few servers. However, Wandii came up with some cool Hi-Res movie shots. I came up with below ready to use in a possible feature.
Movie days are always in our blood, but it's just finding the time at the moment.
The examples below demonstrate rigging up a QW Player Model in 3DS (which potentially can be done for ANY model in QW i.e. Shambler, Scrag, Zombie etc.). It took me approximately 3 hours to do a temporary rig of Player. Do bear in mind, that this rigging has been done without any fine tuning to the QW Player model.
When I have time, I'll have to go through each limb and fine tune the QW Model, against the exact parts of a human skeleton (probably about 10-12 hours work). Nevertheless, using 24Bit-Hi-Res textures, the result is quite promising, although rather rubber-man-like at the moment.
Tell me what you guys think:
Movie clip: http://www.zedii.co.uk/qw/qw_balance.mov
Movie clip: http://www.zedii.co.uk/qw/qw_banana.mov
Movie clip: http://www.zedii.co.uk/qw/qw_crazy.mov
Movie clip: http://www.zedii.co.uk/qw/qw_robot.mov
Zayd.