Screwing around in 3ds max

Tom Hatfield · Post by **Tom Hatfield** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:34 pm

I decided to play around with some HL2 textures and throw together a graphical sample of a simple RPG I'm thinking about developing. (My web page says basically the same thing word for word.) I'm not really looking for comments, but they're always welcome. It's a toss-up between this and a DM clone. I'm still trying to decide which one I'd like better. Hard to say when a demo might become available.

I know the character looks awkward. I deliberately tweaked the lighting so she looks super-imposed, like in a real game. (This was more trouble than it was worth, really.) She has no shadow because the matte/shadow material doesn't work like I expected; it cuts out parts of the scene behind it. She is about a foot too tall though, which I'll need to take into account for final render. This is just a sample scene, after all.

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Those HL2 texture are gorgeous, don't you think? I'm going to have some fun with this one, DM or not. The model is from UT2003, of course.

I'm a real big fan of steampunk and techno-fantasy (not Final Fantasy, which I hate, but Arcanum is pretty sweet). Whatever I do, it's going to have this theme — which, of course, is what I'm trying to capture in this image. Was I successful? If you have any ideas I might be able to employ, please share! I'm very open-minded when it comes to games.

Darkon · Post by **Darkon** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 2:02 pm

Big red x

Tom Hatfield · Post by **Tom Hatfield** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 4:10 pm

Yeah, I know. I don't have my own connection anymore, so my server is down most of the time. Sorry about that.

purple1 · Post by **purple1** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:26 am

You have 3ds max? Would you be interested in taking some very samll snapshots of a model that I downloaded?

I'm making a plug-in for Escape Velocity Nova (www.ambrosiasw.com) that allows the player to fly in a DeLorean. I found the model but I cannot view it, and I need someone to take some overhead pictures of it at various angles and a set of shots with the model banking. If you're interested, I'll sendd you the model and the specifications for what I need.

Tom Hatfield · Post by **Tom Hatfield** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:39 pm

Sure. Send it to convolution-3 (at) comcast (dot) net and I'll see what I can do.