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It would be annoying as hell if your gun swung around like that from a fps pov though.
Love the model animations. Yeah feet firmly planted. They look weighty too. Smart.
Yes you can... what is your experience with 3D modelling?
They might make new animations for them but they'll still have the original model from before they compiled it for the game, people convert models between engines all the time.
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was gonna say, of course you can, well said
"renders" don't come into it here, really. it's about the original 3d model mesh (from their base DCC package - 3ds max etc or whatever they are using) and the textures, unwrapped or not. they can all be very easily updated a little and shoved into any new engine painlessly, including animation. same with other assets like the normal stuff floating around maps, bullets etc. even character models. makes total sense. I do this all the time with my architectural work. why remodel every sofa and armchair from scratch on each job when I can re-use the old stuff over and over and tweak as needed? saves time and money speaking from experience here.
Some years working in the industry for high rep company here in Belfast and will also be attending a workshop I got sponsored for working in Maya with kep workers that worked on the Avatar modelling.
Yes you can lift the simple basic modelling, but that would be a complete waste going to teh trouble or lifting it from an old engine to a new one.
Zefen got owned.
I think the game looks pretty good, I'm not one of the BF2 hardcore, I never used commander and often ignored it if someone was playing it, so its removal doesn't bother me at all. The graphics look awesome!
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What needs to change would be the textures i guess not the actual models.
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How is it simpler/quicker/cheaper/better to have your staff totally remodel and re-texture and reanimate an asset that you already have in your studio's library? Doesn't make sense to me and I don't know any individual or studio that would do that when they have the better option available to them. Obviously you wouldn't do this for totally new content (as in new designs, not new versions of old designs).
No offence to you but the experience you've listed *sounds* good but I'm not convinced, based on what you're actually saying. An example being that you don't re-use "renders" in games, and in fact the only "renders" that ever show up in games are either cutscenes or pre-baked occlusion maps etc. I think you might be getting a little confused, that's all. Again, don't mean any offence by it
Ohh i never meant to imply it was cheaper or easier, i imagine getting the developers to work on a complete new engine from scratch is one he'll of an expense. It's kinda hard to explain, of course you can take the previous modelling, but, if you went to the trouble of a new engine, then it's gonna be used, and if they think theirs enough small changes, it's almost just easier to layout and start again, the kinda guys they have working there are industry leaders, it's honestly would take them that long overall in a project like this to put it together.How is it simpler/quicker/cheaper/better to have your staff totally remodel and re-texture and reanimate an asset that you already have in your studio's library? Doesn't make sense to me and I don't know any individual or studio that would do that when they have the better option available to them. Obviously you wouldn't do this for totally new content (as in new designs, not new versions of old designs).
No offence to you but the experience you've listed *sounds* good but I'm not convinced, based on what you're actually saying. An example being that you don't re-use "renders" in games, and in fact the only "renders" that ever show up in games are either cutscenes or pre-baked occlusion maps etc. I think you might be getting a little confused, that's all. Again, don't mean any offence by it
This been posted?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d4zPapOtW4&feature=player_embedded
Also, Crytek, do you see how a game should be???!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d4zPapOtW4&feature=player_embedded
Also, Crytek, do you see how a game should be???!
PCGAMER's view on the BF3 single player gameplay.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/03/02/battlefield-3-first-impressions-and-screenshots/
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/03/02/battlefield-3-first-impressions-and-screenshots/
Which is what you were denying is possible but now it appears its not?!
Sorry im not trying to own anyone, you asked i answered, what might explain is i don't pretend to know the inside and outs of a gaming industry, my background is in graphic design that moved into VUE, Cinema4d, Maya etc, for ai could know you are absolute right, they lifted and touched up the textures.
But from my experience, unless stuck to a very tight deadline, we egerna,ly don't like to lift from previous jobs. Plus i kinda prefer it, yearly updates and updates to the softwares throughout the years means new tools short cuts etc, i like going back and working from the floor up.
Was it...sorry reading it back i suppose that's how it reads yes, so i honestly take that back, but really, theirs very little chance they havnt gone back and worked it from the ground up.
no chance in one year ish they totally rebuilt a new engine game thats bs i know it we know it
thats why i said at the start but in the video thats just what the dice guy says.we just hope they have guess we got plenty of time to see
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