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FPSC Classic Models and Media / Viral Outbreak - Model Pack 52

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RickV
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Hi all,

We have just released this video of Bond1s latest model pack.

We should be releasing the pack in the next day or two (just some final tweaks being done).

Let us know what you think.

Viral Outbreak Video

This pack is only for FPSCX9.

It will NOT work in X10 due to it's use of shaders.

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JaredxD
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WOO! YAY!!

This is so awesome! Can not wait for release! Go Bond1!

Boom.
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Great work, as always Bond.
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great artist ...

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Awesomness in 3d form.


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This just made my christmas list.Bond does it again...

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SOLO DESIGN
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bond1 does it again!!

The video shows 7 out of 15 characters (stated at start of video)
can we see the other 8 please?
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Metal Devil123
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Wow, that's awesome work Bond1! The best so far! Now I can finally perfect my outer-space horror games!

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...

The Medusa is very good.

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michael x
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I only seen eight character but on the video it said 15 so I guess this not all of them.

more than what meets the eye

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The Storyteller 01
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Posted: 14th Dec 2010 17:26 Edited at: 14th Dec 2010 17:27
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Time to quote the Pointers Sisters

"I'm so excited, I just can't hide it!"

In case you find my grammar and spelling weird ---> native German speaker ^^
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WOW! I mean... WOW!

Thumbs up bond1!

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Look like RE4 monsters.
AWESOME!!!

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Quite amazing, it looks stunning. This is going on my letter to santa. Thanks bond1
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I am so getting this for Christmas!! Great job Bond1 here is a beer for all your hard work!

Cheers,
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Posted: 14th Dec 2010 19:27 Edited at: 14th Dec 2010 19:30
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If you've bought the pack, you'll probably want to use the shadow shader for your own characters. I've included a template called "character_planarshadow_template.fx" in the effectbank folder included in the model pack. Here is a pic showing how it can be customized for your own use in Dark Shader:



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I am SO getting this.

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AWESOME!

I'll order this as soon as it's available.

THANKS Bond1 & TGC!!!

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bond1
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Posted: 14th Dec 2010 20:02 Edited at: 14th Dec 2010 20:03
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Quote: "I'll order this as soon as it's available.
"


It's ready now, not sure why there are two threads

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=178958&b=24

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Already ordered,mine! Thanks Bond! Good luck with the pack.

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Looking great, i'll order this as soon as possible.

Great job on the models, scripts and shaders bond!

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A.W.E.S.O.M.E.

they say that this pack is not a available for X10 but if i click on the X10 modelpacks, i do see MP 52

strange


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Part of me needs to wine about that some of the designs are out of Dead Space

The other part of me conciders these to be the best FPSC Chars ever and buys it

Edit: Bought it.



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Darn! Wolf beat me to it. most of the creatures are from dead space but whatever.

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Oh dear! Looks like I have to make a SciFi Horror game now



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bond1, when you said Lee added support in v1.17 for this pack, you siad the fixed update has your adaptive bloom shader instead of that old crappy post-processing right?

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Posted: 16th Dec 2010 00:50 Edited at: 16th Dec 2010 00:51
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Yes, Lee has uploaded a small update to 1.17 that has my adaptive bloom shader instead of the old one, and a new scripting command that this pack uses to hide the blob shadow (HIDESHADOW = 1). You just need to redownload 1.17 and reinstall it: http://files.thegamecreators.com/fpscreator/FPSCreator_Upgrade_117.zip

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I'm adding this to my Christmas list FOR SURE!
Those are fantastic models and animations!

I like the last one in the video,
Great animations, especially the death animation
and sound effects.
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is this pack the only way to get the shader like the metro theatre?
CUZ I WANT IT WITHER WAY

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General Jackson
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Wow bond, looks great! I'm not getting it though because I am penniless, lol.

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Come on now GJ, you KNOW you want those shadows, you NEED those character shadows. Only luddites use the old blob shadow, it's soooo 1999.

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bond1 I want know what happen to the diffuse map that had a CG look of texture? like the d2 texture map you have in the other model pack of the characters. if you have those diffuse map I will pay you for them for these characters. I really need those cg looking diffuse texture. please and thank you.

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I didn't include regular D2 textures with baked lighting because this pack requires shader effects to work as shown in the video, and I figured no one would want to use these characters without the shadow shader and other effects shown in the video.

I can render out regular diffuse maps with baked in lighting next week when I'm off work, and give them to TGC as an add-on for the pack. It probably won't be till after Christmas though before they can add it as an update. And keep in mind that the scripts won't work the same way, and you won't get the shadows either without enabling full shader effects.

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is there anyway you could email them to me please? I also understand that they wont work the same but Im okay with that I know how to script. Im working on a big project that call for me to use them another way. plus if it not to much to as can you tell me how you render out a diffuse map like that. please and thank you.

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Looks good man! also thinking of buying it

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Quote: "you KNOW you want those shadows, you NEED those character shadows. Only luddites use the old blob shadow, it's soooo 1999."


Yup. No FPSC game can consider itself to be BOTB material without the new dynamic character shadows. It was totally worth the 4 months of agony watching the youtube videos every night.

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Quote: "Come on now GJ, you KNOW you want those shadows, you NEED those character shadows. Only luddites use the old blob shadow, it's soooo 1999."

Haha. I want to see if I can get them working in my engine

That would be awesome.

However, I wont have a job til next year (nowhere to work until I'm 16).
Then i have to save up for a car. then I want to save up some money so I can get married. And while I'm saving that money I might shell out $20.00 for your awesomely underpriced pack


Edit: On the spiky character do you have a bone for each spike? because it seems like having that many bones would quickly drain performance for that character. Or do you have another master's trick up your sleeve?

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bond1 I have got the shadow shader working with one of my models and I ahve illumination for the characters eyes and all looks amazing but I also have some transparent areas on the model (rib cage etc) before I used an alpha channel on the specular texture map and set transparent areas to Black (0,0,0) but doing this now does not make them transparent, I also have tried doing the same as an alpha on the illumination map but no results.

Where am I going wrong?

So to summarise - Normal,illumination,specular and shadows working great but not transparency with this shader.

Any help would be great.

Many thanks
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Quote: "On the spiky character do you have a bone for each spike? because it seems like having that many bones would quickly drain performance for that character. Or do you have another master's trick up your sleeve?"


Maximum bone limit is 60, but I'm not going anywhere near that. I use a dummy bone for each "clump" of spikes, and each spike bone is parented to it's nearest "skeleton" biped bone. Rotating the bones makes the individual spikes of each clump flare out in a chaotic way, looking more complex then it really is.

Here a screenshot of the rig in two different states:


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Oh ok. Thanks for the explanation.

Looks really good. I wish I could buy it. Maybe on my birthday I will. And thats if my grandpa sends me the money he usually sends me.

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Quote: "So to summarise - Normal,illumination,specular and shadows working great but not transparency with this shader."


It figures... the first person to try the shader uses it in a way it wasn't designed for. Transparency is hardcoded in this shader, it uses ALPHABLENDENABLE to have partially transparent shadows. That means you can't also use ALPHATEST transparency at the same time. So it won't work with transparency in that particular character. My best suggestion would be to model the ribcage with polys, rather than using a transparent texture.

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bond1 this does not help me much I am afraid. The character is a skeleton and to create all the bones in polys would make the poly count very high, also I have holes in the clothes he wears again I need transparancy for these to look right, re-modelling is not an option on this.

Surely there is a way around this and keep all the great features of your shader?

If it can be done I am willing to pay for the work

Otherwise it is only good for solid poly models with no transparentcy designed into them..............even stock models will not work with this shader like the skeleton etc
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Just thought I'd like to show what you can do with Bond1's awesome shader:



Requires the appropriate textures, of course.

I encourage people to make use of this shader!

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@SOLODESIGN: Send me the character files you're using and I'll have a look and see what I can do. You will need an alpha channel in the DIFFUSE texture to specify transparent areas. Zip everything up and email it to me.


Nice one Lewis, can't wait to see other characters with this shader. Also, remember to re-download v1.17, since it now contains the HIDESHADOW scripting command, if you find that the blob shadow is interfering with these new shadows. Just place HIDESHADOW=1 in the character's appear script and it will kill the blob shadow.

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Quote: "Nice one Lewis, can't wait to see other characters with this shader. Also, remember to re-download v1.17, since it now contains the HIDESHADOW scripting command, if you find that the blob shadow is interfering with these new shadows. Just place HIDESHADOW=1 in the character's appear script and it will kill the blob shadow."


Darn. I dont think the command is in Project Blue right now. That's what I'm using. The command is in the script, but the shadow isnt hiding. Is that the only way for the shadow to be hid?

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Quote: " Is that the only way for the shadow to be hid?"


Just brute-force it and make a fully transparent blob shadow texture to replace the existing one in the decals folder. Make sure it's in PNG format. I assume you'll probably want to use the shader on all characters anyway, so you can just overwrite it no problem.

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Quote: "Just brute-force it and make a fully transparent blob shadow texture to replace the existing one in the decals folder. Make sure it's in PNG format. I assume you'll probably want to use the shader on all characters anyway, so you can just overwrite it no problem."


Wicked. Thanks mate, I'll do just that. This pack is epically awesome, and it's cheap too. Thanks for the awesome media work as always, Bond1.

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bond1 I will zip up tonight(GMT for me) and send via your email address - mjblosser@gmail.com

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Shader and shadows look amazing, makes me want to buy this pack just to tinker with it.

It's a no go for this month though, still got two christmas gifts left to purchase and money's already low...

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I am definently purchasing this pack. I want all this stuff SOOO beep beep hard, to quote Sven.

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