PAINFRAME Development Blog #3.5 - Image Heavy

"Hello All, Things are moving right along some nice concepts are in from openanewworld and the Male Base Model is rigged and mo cap is being applied. Come on in, hope you like the screens."

Dev: My Thoughts:
Torque3D SDK vs SDKs

Over the years I have Download every version and subversion of the Microsoft SDK and Nvidia SDK, A quick note is they do this to show you how to do really cool things but you have to notice they never every give you a demonstration of all the cool things together this is because of two things 1) Notice all the apps are barely running real time them selves 50 flips on a single effect is bad. 2) There is a big step from effects to a system of collaborated effects and if they gave you this they would be giving you the makings of a game engine for free and that's not cool because they had to pay the experts for the time and secrets of what it takes to have outstanding games system.

Nvidia did provide a scene graph but it crashes on Nvidia cards let alone ATI cards so one would think a SDK is great for educational but when it comes to "I want to make a game!" SDKs will teach "how to" get your machine to WOW you but you will be learning things that will frustrate you beyond you wildest dreams when you try to put them all together, so if your like me, I want to make a game so I have chosen Torque3D for three main reasons 1) It is a simulator that is 100% configurable. 2) It is a cutting edge render that is 100% configurable. 3) The Community!

Concept Art:

The Technitrox Sentinel:

The Technitrox Elite Soldier:

The UNE Military Soldier:



Torque3D Character

Created in ZBrush High Poly Scuplt:
UV Texture in Maya:



Rendered and Rigged In 3DS Max:


For comparison purposes a ray traced shot.




In Game Of Model of non rigged model: Captured Minutes before I received the MAX, DTS and DSQ above, you can see Bubba's hair above!









Now the rigged model goes back to the Artist for cloths layer and accessorise should end up around 9k Ploys when completed and will be used for most every human male character, also the Artist will then include 4 Stage LOD = 5 Levels of Detail.

I am going to play now!

Cya' Around
OmegaDog

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