Model questions and the new renderer?

Gordon

i was thinking of trying my hand modeling but want i wanted to model are sorta holographic cubes that display the ammo for the given weapon they would replace the ammo boxes and the large cell case. the question i have is how would i go about doing this? also what color should the holographic boxes be?

veirdo

Model a cube and ammo inside it. Then apply transparent non-receiving light shader or generic shader with transparency and emissive mask. Other effects may vary depending on a visuals you want to achieve. It could be any color you want.
But first I suggest you to find a reference image that represent the effect you want to do. Like these or something.

Gordon

your second image has the sorta style i want. this is right now only a test to see if i can do stuff my self but so far i got bullets tho not high poly i think it's fine for what i need.

edit: is there a way to have a continuous texture animation playing?

veirdo

Gordon wrote:

is there a way to have a continuous texture animation playing?

Yes, you can do it using "uOffsetUV" shader variable.
https://github.com/skyjake/Doomsday-Eng ... /model.dei

Gordon

now my next question is how to add a skeletal animation in blender and dose blender support the new model format?

Edit: need to get the bullets in the center to spin and i made the uv to make it easier with the animated texture.

veirdo

I'm not using blender, but there are lot of tutorials to make skeletal animations in that package
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc: ... .Animation

and KuriKai made a tutorial how to use Blender with Doomsday Engine
http://wiki.dengine.net/w/Using_Blender ... r_Doomsday

Gordon

ok i think i can get it working but the new way to do the models will take me time to get used to. i wonder how this will look inagame. well thats for me to find out and people to help me in this new venture. lol

Edit: i want to know if i did everything i could do correctly on the model it's self. here is the file. https://www.dropbox.com/s/x68d8b0oh7vid ... x.fbx?dl=0

veirdo

Gordon wrote:

i want to know if i did everything i could do correctly on the model it's self. here is the file. https://www.dropbox.com/s/x68d8b0oh7vid ... x.fbx?dl=0

You used too many polys for bullets. 6-sided cylinder is enough with 2-3 edge loop cuts at the top for curved cone shape.

Gordon

with out the normal map would it not look horrible? also i am still new to all this. generally i try when using a program called daz studio to make my stuff under 30k polys as anymore it will not load. i could find a way to decimate it but i would need to make the normal maps first?

Edit: i used the default mesh's that you import for blender. so we have a cylinder and a uv sphere.

Edit 2: whats the best way to animate the bullets so that they are all spinning but the box is not?

Zerker12

EDIT: I just found the Doom Model Project 2 in the addons section shortly after posting this. Never mind!


I've always been interested in learning Blender to add some models for JDoom . Wondering, if there currently an effort right now to update the old 1.01 JDRP? In my free time I'll start practicing my blender haha .