..Korona again..

[Naughty Alien]

..if you remember, I use to post pics of one of my dragon characters, during development in Mudbox (hi poly)..now, its scaled down to game use, and done basic texturing, just to see how is it look like in engine..so here is download link for small exe so you can see it..I hope you like it..

 

 

here is download link..

 

http://www.mediafire.com/?zzgdgd5wzmi

 

NOTE:

when start exe, just turn camera with mouse, because camera facing wrong direction (forgot to align, sorryyyy ) ..so you can turn cam with mouse but no motion, its locked on proper distance..

[Roland]

That image looks quite amazing.

I downloaded the exe and ... wow I say

[Josh]

Your EXE fails to start without any error message on my ATI 4870.

[Canardia]

Your EXE fails to start without any error message on my ATI 4870.

Please update your drivers!

[Roland]

Your EXE fails to start without any error message on my ATI 4870.

 

A little note about that.

 

First I copied the exe into my Leadwerks SDK folder and run it.

It then fails to start as you say.

 

Then I just copied the exe to my desktop and ran it again.

Then is shows up as it should

[Naughty Alien]

..well...there is nothing special about code, really...however, its packed with all necessary files so maybe some things what are inside package colliding with files you have on location from where you running proggy...

[Canardia]

I put the exe in some empty folder, and run it.

It starts with a light gray screen, and then you need to press Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up Task Manager, then press Alt-Tab a few times and then left click on the game window, and it works!

[Naughty Alien]

..when you see gray screen, try to move your mouse left right..gray is because i left camera turned in to wrong direction...no need for that crl alt thingy..

[Canardia]

Ah OK, it works also when you move the mouse left or right about 10cm on the table.

[Naughty Alien]

..yup..i just forgot to align camera towards dragon and when i packed everything it was late and i was lazy to do packing again ..just use mouse and its fine... i hoped, it was not much to ask, just to move mouse a bit

[macklebee]

nice! dl'ing now...

 

looks great! has this been rigged yet? if so how many bones?

 

on a side note:how did you pack the shaders into the exe?

[Naughty Alien]

..all characters are rigged, so since topology is same, i have extracted bone structure while i remodelling of dragon took place in Mudbox..so, all i need is just simply sort of 'load back' my bones and animations(saved) and she will be ready to go..maybe tomorrow ill post again exe with some animations (idling), if i have time..regarding packing, I wanted to protect my media, and shaders(i have many custom stuff) so i packed all together..this particular example is packed with MoleBox Solution, an extraordinary tool for this kind of stuff, and it can slice in to specific packs everything(eg levels, etc) so later some updates for customers will be very easy to do..I have my own proggy for such things, but it doesnt wotk on vista and W7(ill take a look whats the problem when get more time)..on win XP is just good..but since i got this Molebox, my packer collecting dust in some corner, somewhere

 

here it is, highly recommended:

http://www.molebox.com/molebox-solution.shtml

[macklebee]

nice... thanks for the link... i like the whole thing being packed into one executable... pretty slick.

 

look forward to seeing that dragon move! (assuming you have time after your tutorials )

[omid3098]

good job as almost always!

I preferred to see ground with parallax shader..

[wailingmonkey]

nice job, Naughty Alien.

 

(on the art side, I think you could bump up the Ambient Occlusion on the texture a bit --- to

pop the underlying scales more --- and work on the specular --- less intense and more related

to the diffuse scales/design to avoid some of the plastic toy look)

[Pancakes]

really awesome!

 

btw, Nod32 gives virus alert on that site

[Jordan]

Great model, but I agree with wailingmonkey on the specular. When can we see this animated?

[Naughty Alien]

..well..this is first 'pass' and appearance within engine environment.. few things missing, and one of them is also glowing heat on wings, what is not shown here..sooo...one step at the time

[Rick]

How are you packing everything into the exe? I would be interesting in doing this as well.

[gordonramp]

Works ok for me although the model was not in view and it took me a while to find it. Like Rick, I'm wondering about the exe. Looks an excellent model for a medieval magical world.

[paramecij]

The dragon looks great, fear inducing, I esp. like it's face & mouth and would love to see it animated with some reference for scale maybe, how big will it be ?

 

 

 

@Rick

You use EXE packers, ..they compress and append everything at the end of your .exe file and modify the PE headers so windows wont wonderful person and crash your app while at the same time they can protect your code from disassembly and people ripping out your resources etc.. I used to have a good free one but can't remember the name, the one NA suggested is a more advanced one (and more pricey). Also, most anti virus programs are afraid of such exe files and throw out false positives.. (also depends on the packer)

[Rick]

Would be interested if anyone knows of a free one.

[Rekindled Phoenix]

Great dragon model! Keep up the awesome work

 

(I can't get the EXE to run. An empty window loads, then closes)

[Naughty Alien]

The dragon looks great, fear inducing, I esp. like it's face & mouth and would love to see it animated with some reference for scale maybe, how big will it be ?

 

I may post some dragon idling (note this is good guy ) so you guys can see it in motion, just need to 'plug back' bones and animations..dragon is big..wingspan is about 50 meters,from ground up to horn is 15 meters, and from top of the nose to end of the tail is 30 meters..

[Rekindled Phoenix]

I'm a big fan of dragons, and I keep coming back to this screenshot. Awesome work NA.