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[genetransfer]

EDIT:not enough time to enter the comp so another one for the back burner im afraid, oh well thats what work does(other than pay the bills ) suck too much time. maybe next year.

[Timo]

Now you've got a great texture on that pirate! The robot looks good too, though it's textures aren't perfect (but I assume it's not finnished). 

I thought about entering that competiton too, but then I decided not to. I've got enough work already...

[Mike_Hense]

yes... i thought the same thing... but since i thought the thread topic was centering on physics and ragdoll effects, i didn't say anything...

indeed,  the actor in the bottom shot looks great...

dare i say DOOM3-like 

can we see some more pics of him...

--Mike

[Mike_Hense]

cool... scary lookin zombie dude...

at first it looked as if it was a bumpmapped texture, but on closer look, i can't really tell...

it now doesn't appear to be bumpmapped...

if it isn't, then it is definitely a prime candidate for a bumpmapping treatment... that would definitely bring it a step closer to looking like those baddies in DOOM3 

 
--Mike

[genetransfer]

thanks Mike and timo, Nah its not bumpmaped,as im going to be using skeletal animation and you cant bump a skinmesh at the moment, and using motors to create all the animations i want the zombies to do would take too much time so ill be creating ragdolls runtime, based on current animation thats happpening to create a fluid transition, so with the right lighting and it will hopefully look great and being that itll be a 3rd person view the bump mapping might not add that much to it, although your so right it would be cool to get something close to doom3 visually, i hope i can make it fun as well.

[Mike_Hense]

hey Leonard... will we be able to use bumpmapping on skinnedmeshes in version 4?

(he's gonna kill me if i don't stop botherin' him  )

--Mike

[WeirdPumpkin]

hey Leonard... will we be able to use bumpmapping on skinnedmeshes in version 4?

Nah, it's probably impossible to bump-map a textured, ragdoll skinmesh with more than two limbs on a Friday. It's been mathematically proven.

[Developer - Fernando]

WeirdPumpkin is right. Bone deformatins use all available shaders power, so you can't bump map a skinned mesh curently.

In a popular game (Halo) Microsoft used to 'attach' rigid bump mapped meshes (armour or something) to skinned characters to improve rendering quality.

[Mike_Hense]

k... thanks... i kinda thought that was going to be the case...   

--Mike

[WeirdPumpkin]

hey Leonard... will we be able to use bumpmapping on skinnedmeshes in version 4?

Nah, it's probably impossible to bump-map a textured, ragdoll skinmesh with more than two limbs on a Friday. It's been mathematically proven.

WeirdPumpkin is right. Bone deformatins use all available shaders power, so you can't bump map a skinned mesh curently.

Er....  really?! It's true?!?! I was only kidding.. funny how it turns out to be true, and the joke blows up in my face!!