What are you working on?

[leileilol]

[Supa]

Game development tradition dictates that if your game involves fire in any significant amount, you must show at least one screenshot of it. :)

[ceriux]

cool effects

[goldenboy]

I am working on a new single-player game set in the world of Quake. You can read more about it here.

[Chip]

[goldenboy]

taniwha, those IQMs:

icculus.org/remakequake/rmq_iqms.zip

Only insane.iqm has any animations to speak of. All of them have armatures though (I think).

http://pastebin.com/wv1xpSBU

Insane frames

[taniwha]

goldenboy: ooh, thank you! This shall be interesting

[taniwha]

One very minor issue: where can I find info about th_talk?

[goldenboy]

http://pastebin.com/s8k9wWsF

Those are just some RMQ-isms that you can safely remove. He talks when triggered in RMQ, but to load the IQM and have it animate, that's not necessary. His talk routine was also broken when I last saw him.

Basically just remove the stuff that doesn't exist in standard Quake...

just try to load him and get him playing his idle anim first and foremost.

Noesis allows you to check what kind of animations an IQM actually has, btw.

[taniwha]

After posting, I noticed other things like self.go and Gyro_*, so yeah, I'll just have to "port" it to normal progs. I asked because I was thinking of adding it to QF.

[r00k]

Noeisis cleanly ported the insane.iqm to .mdl but I havent a use for that model except for the sheer enjoyment of watching a player beat the ground after losing

It's nice to see a new animation for the old player model though

[goldenboy]

Yeah, it's made for a specific purpose. I'm just learning how to properly do walk animations, so in a few months I should have quite a few "standard" animated monsters etc. in IQM format. Animating itself is pretty simple, but walking for example needs to be done the right way to look natural. Animating with blending in mind (via csqc) is next.

Lots of stuff to do though.

Actually I will need to add polies as well simply to avoid the nasty distortions of the mesh. Quakeguy is so low poly that any movement causes extreme stretching of his skin.

[taniwha]

Yeah, q1 models are pretty darn low-poly. However, for the most part, the artists did a very good job of getting them low-poly (shammy's belly is a bit of a mess). I was very impressed with the player model when I got to study it in blender.

Unfortunately, I haven't yet had time to look at the models

[leileilol]

I think the most impressive and underrated aspect of the quake models is their animation

There's some pretty sweet IK work in there.

[taniwha]

I suspect there might even be motion capture. The animation is very good.