lets just say it has nothing to do with nexball and that it is a new game mode samual and i have been working on.

Can't be nexball... in NB, there are no weapons enabled by default.
Or it still can be NB ai with weapons enabled.
Or the trail.

Or both

Edit: oh...

bombing run?

No.... no........ no..... Jesus you all took off with that screenshot... It's a new gametype called keepaway.. And also, it won't be in 2.5.2.. Maybe 2.5.3. But after 2.5.2 is released, i'm going to set up a public server with it.. And i'll need testers.

Essentially, the goal of keepaway is to capture a ball and hold this ball for as long as you can (Or with winmode 1, the goal is to get as many kills as you can while holding a ball)

My attempt to create a new playermodel.
Currently messing around with the diffusemap.
Still prrretty WiP:

The model: (has about ~1900 faces - counted in Quads and tris - 3500 tris)

Texture (2048²):

(Face amount on that screenie is wrong)

My only problem is that I'm too lazy, and collect frags instead of painting textures

If anyone wants to take a look at it in 3D: Here's the .blend.


Greetings.

Looking very nice, keep it coming!

looks like a battle droid in star wars...nice

It IS a star wars battle droid.

torus wrote:It IS a star wars battle droid.

eh, not exactly. there are some slight differences, but for the most part very similar. we do need some movie-based models though..

Indeed.
It was exactly that concept-image that made me doing him
Changed some parts though - just out of the reason they would be to HighPoly probably.
I'll try to do them with a Normal-map later.
(btw: Does Nexuiz support proper Normalmapping? As I've seen some nmaps on the wepons I guess it does...)


Glossy & Glowmap will also come.

Hm... I should open a new topic with the next update...

Greetings.

Yes, it supports normalmaps.

name it as:

xyz_norm , and the engine will automatically use it.

That star wars droid looks really nice!

Some proceedings on campgrounds too, still quite many things to do on this corner:

Some progress here also:

That skeleton truly misses a b33r from his hand sitting drunk in the corner C.Brutail The placeholder of Quad looks amazing!

they are CLOUDS with LIGHTNING, NOT! a slime mould monster =)

Looks like 5 slime mold monsters to me

true true.

assss-t-t-tt-err-rr-oii-d space map?

Looks like you took inspiration from 5 screwed up balls of paper Rad, how about you create a map shaped like a giant T-Bone steak?

Your an inspiration to us all!

Just to show you that I didn't fell asleep:


(Note: Bad screenshot)
Right side is with, left side without Normal/Bumpmapping.
Colormap is now nearly finsihed.

Missing:
- (good) Bumpmap
- Specmap
- Shorts&Pants-maps
- Glowmap


If you want the .blend - just ask for it.


And now: Driving lessons
What a stress [/img]

Yeah, I suppose WE want the blend, just in case you'd disappear like the other modelers

Nice work BTW. Maybe it should look a bit more sturdy though? Right now it looks like something that could be killed with one laser shot

Ok, then YOU get the .blend (here)
Also made the arms a bit thicker.
And I play normally Minsta. So it doesn't bother me really that it would killed with one shot:P
And no. I won't dissappear. I'm already to addicted.

@Franco: Really really nice work. I played that map in Q3 and I must admit that it rocks.
Thanks for bringing it to Nexuiz

did a little modifying to the skadi model, so far I've done this.

ill go back and de-red the pants some and probably call it good. didn't want to overhaul her, but i did want to add a bit more "spooky sexiness" to her

it's nice to see that player models are finally getting edited by the community. They really need an update IMHO.

OK i made a flame ball launcher...

Still working on the UV unwrapping.

Rad Ished wrote:OK i made a flame ball launcher...
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Still working on the UV unwrapping.
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Excellent, good Sir! Now some flamy graphics in the muzzle and its gonna look sweeter, than it already does.

The muzzle looks far better than my attemp to make that Fireball-gun (Here).
Only the part above the holder looks a bit strange.... Somehow organic.
I will continue mine though. Perhaps it's good for another weapon..

Yeh, that part needs work.
I think I'll just do it again, mebbe just with some simple geometry, i was trying to make some air intakes like a fighter jet, but it hasn't really worked out so far.
..
Haha on me... i just looked at most of the Nexuiz models, some won't load into blender, even if i use the .zym importer, but some will.
..
And what i found was this: it's not neccesary to make your weapon one continuous mesh. They are made out of many intersecting pieces.
Which totally makes sense from a texturing point of view, because the weapon i made is one continuous mesh so i now have to mark all the seams in order to map the texture properly.. hmffph.
..
Also making the mesh continuous means a lot of extra polygons.
Also making one continous mesh take a lot longer and is totally unnecessary >.<
And one last thing, do everything in triangles, not quads.
Ah well, im learning.

Rad Ished wrote:And what i found was this: it's not neccesary to make your weapon one continuous mesh. They are made out of many intersecting pieces.
Which totally makes sense from a texturing point of view, because the weapon i made is one continuous mesh so i now have to mark all the seams in order to map the texture properly.. hmffph.
..
Also making the mesh continuous means a lot of extra polygons.
Also making one continous mesh take a lot longer and is totally unnecessary >.<
And one last thing, do everything in triangles, not quads.
Ah well, im learning.

You don't want to do that. All of those extra surfaces facing the camera have to be drawn by the GPU, regardless of whether they are covered by other pieces of geometry (only backface culling can really save faces from having to be being filled). It can make things worse the more weapons there are closer to the camera. The poly count is less of an issue, especially if you make levels of detail of the model.

So this isn't an aspect of the current weapon models you want to copy.

OK , i kept the mesh manifold and played with seams.. for a long time

This is only a preliminary texturing. Just playing with ideas atm, it's my first weapon (kinda) so im in no hurry.

@Rad Ished: Nice, maybe have the pipes be red/firey and make the rest of the body dark? (Texture, that is)