Game assets made in A:M by Madfox for Quake

[robcat2075]

Take a look at some of the game assets forum member Madfox has made with A:M for the venerable video game "Quake"

 

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[WolfsongCG]

Ahhh yes... A classic.

Some great looking models!

 

[Madfox]

I have made some more last years. So let's get on with the fantastic posibillities of Animation Master!

 

 

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well.., let's say it was the main reason I bought Animation Master.

I just can't get enough.😊

[Madfox]

Here's an example how they look in game. 

 

[robcat2075]

2 hours ago, Madfox said:

Here's an example how they look in game. 

 

 

That is super!

 

But I think the dancers needs a break, they're getting thin!

[itsjustme]

Very cool!

[Madfox]

the dancers are zombies. ., they just hadn't enough food to eat.

[Roger]

These are very good for low poly models.   How did you get the devil lady and catlady so curvy?    Also, why are some of the monsters blinking in and out in the videos?   Are you doing a whole mod?  Would be interested in seeing the full mod.   

[Madfox]

Thanks for your attention and reply, Roger! 

I started modelling for Quake since 1999 with A:M 0.8. I found it a nice job to do, as it gave me much pleasure modelling these creatures. Quake has a low poly count of 1000tris/2000 verts so making things comes down to work as simple as possible. This looks easy, but isn't. To get the most expression while being limited is a rare task.

I used the devil lady from the EXtraData Cd Conquest, simplified it and gave it a fork. The catlady is from a womanmodel with a whip. Both I adjusted with the dynamic constraint. The whip lash was a more complicated part, as it needed different settings for gaining the elastic mode.

The blinking is because I used gifs, and some of them just come through the right way. Maybe the files are too large to expose. I tried to replace them with better ones.

Most of the models are used in game with fully extentions. They ride beautifull in the Quake contex. The fun part is that this game has a lot of input. There is a part of mapping, creating a world with polygons, and then shaping them up to large environnements. A perculiar nice thing is the light setting, that gives this "worlds" a realistic glow. Then there is the part of making these creatures, that walk along in these created shapes, and have the nasty abillity to fight the player, as he is in a world that isn't his own. At last there is the coding part that is quiet abstract, to change the game and alter these creatures to give them challeging properties, as well as making the game parms different.

I could show you some scenes there are made with them in one of my maps. I just have to dig into the archive to see what I can find. I took the map "FourFeather" that is commented on a good way by "The Quake Grave", someone that makes demo's of levels and has a special touch of giving his way of playing the level. He did this on more levels and is really good at it. I took the title from my own special favour of "Three Feather Waterfall", an old animation of Gerry Anderson, which was my favorite in my younger years, and also the one who encouraged my taste of making animation in general, like "The Thunderbirds". Another one that kept my attention of making models for in AnimationMaster.   

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Here is a small promotion video dumptrunc made of my quake atributions I made with AnimationMaster.

 

[robcat2075]

On 6/1/2022 at 8:36 PM, Madfox said:

Here is a small promotion video dumptrunc made of my quake atributions I made with AnimationMaster.

 

That's great! You're a famous artist!

[Fuchur]

Amazing MadFox – just cool, that you got covered that extensivly. Well deserved :).

Best regards
*Fuchur*

[Madfox]

Thanks for your answers! I do appreciate that.

Still half of the honour goes to dumptrunc, because without his patience in practising the video it wouldn't have had that impact.

[Madfox]

The Gift from Cyro kept me playing for months. 
Here a few more models.
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[Madfox]

Had some fun with BioVision's bvh files and Animation Master!

It took some time to get used to the bone hiearchie. Most files start with a T-Bone pose from where it is possible to catch the right IK bone and corresponding Orient & Translate. Then themodel will act a-like. Some trouble with flying splines as CP weights. 
For models with low polycount it is atracting as they have not that dense surface to be divided in.

 

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[robcat2075]

They look like they're having fun!

[Madfox]

The chasing Balrog is from the ExtraCd. Beautifully creature. 

Had a little scrible to match the 1000tris/2000verts limit. Converting it to 3ds gave a way higher count.

Finally I could use Meshlab to export object files and convert them back to 3ds. That way the corner points of the mesh stick together from 4 to 1.

Took me quiet long to discover the cause of this problem. Reason why exported 3ds files grew so large.

[Madfox]

Some new models I made lately. For some reason this fidling with game options keep me facinating.
 

[Madfox]

I served myself a bit of a hazard job by trying to convert a *.stl file to a low poly object.
It obtained about 3 milion verts and 2 miljon faces. The file I needed had a 2000verts 1000 faces limit.

So I tried to convert it with MeshLab back to that low count, but as expected there was hardly a form left.
So I used Furcher's retopologize methode (thanks for that!). Still a bit of a whirle as the object prop was so dense I could hardly trace the outline.

To keep the relief right I know that exporting .OBJ files from AM: to .3DS leads to the half outcome of the model.
This needs some clarification.
When exporting models from AM: like this OBJ one:2680v /5563t.
Importing it in MeshLab and exportin it to 3ds I get a file with 1007v / 2045 tris.
And that's precise the limit I needed.
Still a bit confused why this works that way.

Then I could import it to Quake and give it the right texture.

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[Fuchur]

Very nice

Best regards
*Fuchur*