@ Monty87: Thank you for your compliments! As far as the lack of licensing goes, we are not using any of Mr. Brian Jacques' characters or anything from his books aside from our vision of his world so it shouldn't be any more of a problem than any of the revious fan games made by others.
@ All: I've added an image to the top of the thread showing about what the characters ARE going to look like. We've been trying to find a character modeler for two years now, and everyone we found is either pathetic (meaning here-in "not even half as good as me"), was too busy (we understand), or couldn't export into any useable formats.
So after vainly searching for a few more months, I've decided that it's futile. I'll do the modeling too, and I'll make them simple and therefor easy to just retexture, thereby making them look more unique without having to spend several weeks building 3000-4000+ poly models as fancy as good'ole "Otterman".
Some of you may recognize about half the geometry from a previous model I posted elsewhere on the forum, and I honestly had no intention of ever using this in the Redwall Project, but oddly, this is how it's panning out. I built that for an unrelated project which I may modify and post some time in the future 'cause it was the best RPG Battle engine I ever wrote in all of two weeks, media dev-time included.
Anyhoo, these "Mini Mice" only use 19 bones, less than half that of Otterman, and so they are also much more easily animated. Due to the low polygon-count they also look more fluid in motion, unlike otterman who often looks like he has a sore back. (Amusingly, I do too from work yesterday evening, lol)
Anyhoo, I have a total of 7 different mouse fur and costume designs, that picture is about three days old, and I can make a new fur and clothing texture in less than an hour. Of course that also depends on how much of a perfectionist I will be on getting just the right hue and saturation on every single color.
I spent over 5 hours on one of them, but it was definitely worth it! I'll be replacing the picture with another once I get the program copied back onto my laptop (stupid virus killed it, if I didn't mention that yet).
Anyways, every position on the team has been filled and as always the FAQ is avaliable at: benjywright.0moola.com/faq.html
I'll be continuing work on the website at some random moment in the future, so eventually there will be a nice looking website up there dedicated to all thing in the A Tale Of Redwall Project.
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