The Keepers of Radvdyn (Redwall/The Secret of NIMH inspired AA/RPG) (Page 1 of 2)

Wow! Your game is really nice. Good work! Keep it up.

Ho, I wanted to ask you, did you use baked lightmaps on your level or only dynamic lights ?

Here you go http://zester.googlecode.com/files/TheK … vdyn_1.zip

The model section on the wiki is fixed also I just have to do the texture section. I have a metric #$%4 ton of models that I made that need to be uploaded. Hopefully no more problems with file hosting.

The music selection I have its all cc and extreamly fitting for this project and impressive. Thanks to Kevin MacLeod.

Hopefully it turns out to be something the community likes and eather contrubutes to this or the wiki regardless its all for maratis

Last edited by zester (2013-01-03 01:54:00)

Screenshot of Terrain/Trees Test

Ya thats because I had to move the light up to light the terrain. I have to play with the distance and brightness of the scene light. The size of the terrain and temple are off also. Well the mouse looks really small in comparison.

I think its a good start though. Brighten it up, Some more texture work, Add Rocks/Bolders, Some Plants, A few differant Trees and some Leaves, Hollow Logs. Stuff like that. Should look ok.

Last edited by zester (2013-01-03 22:43:03)

Thanks

I did a partial scene last night and worked on light mapping. Everything was going great but one model(Inner Log House Frame)
was just not exporting to Maratis3D with its texture uv's properly aligned. Ill hve to work on it again today.

I did notice a problem with Lights I was only abe to have one in this scene because any others wouldnt show up?

The Fireplace, Floor and Log Walls have been Lightmaapped in both images.

Last edited by zester (2013-01-05 19:15:01)

I figured I would do some work on houses, couldnt really come up with any insperation of my own. So I took to google to find something to model

Referance Image

This is what I ended up with. Close to the referance image but not identical.

When I find some more time ill do the textureing and add it to the pile of stuff that needs to be uploaded and put on the wiki.

Last edited by zester (2013-01-06 22:16:42)

How are you doing the multitexturing  on ground? I presume you use blender, so are you using the custom shader pipeline in exporter ? *I'll be doing some of that myself fairly soon, so if its something you can share that would help a great deal. We aren't all programmers

thx
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This could be a Church a Outpost or School House (Just have to export with out the giant cross), I still need to make a bell. I didnt add windows this time because I want to try something differnt. I am going to model the inside separately place a camera with a window just in front and render that then use that image as the window texture.

Anyways Modeled and Ambient Occlusion is baked. Now its time to paint.

Last edited by zester (2013-01-08 18:56:47)

In both book series (Redwall & NIMH) there are some cross simularitys.

1. In both worlds the animals have human like intelligence.
2. Neather of the two worlds feature the concept of magic (In Redwall we have apparitions, and in NIMH
Mrs. Brisby is able to focus Telekinetic Powers via a Stone.)

3. Both worlds feature Rats in Redwall there roll is more evil than in NIMH.
4. In both worlds emotions play are large part in story development.
5. Primative weapons are used in both Redwall and NIMH (Sword, Dagger, Shield, ...)

Some Differances:

1. Redwall is based on Renaissance Times & NIMH is based on the present time line.
2. NIMH features Humans & Redwall has no concept of Humans that I can remember.
3. In NIMH the rats utilize modern technology(Wheels, Pullys & Electricity), Redwall tech is very primative (Wheels, Pullys and Wind Power (Ships later on))

4. In NIMH the animals are more to there actual scale, In redwall there more proportionate to each other (Moles are only slightly smaller than mice, Minks are almost twice as tall) In Reality Mice are twice to three times the size of a Mole and a Mink is up to 20 times a mouses size.

The Keepers Of Radvdyn Questions that need to be answered:

1. Do we have magic and if so what kind.
2. Primative weapons are obviously utilized but what about "Steam Punk Tech" like a Steam Powereed Harpoon type weapons? And primative electricity. "The Creativity seen in the cartoon (The Littles) seams like a fun concept to play with."

3. How would a post human world effect the concept of magic?
4. How would a humanless world effect the concept of modern tech like Steam power and Electricity.
5. What time line do we exist in and are the current buildings above to modern for Renaissance Times.

As far as transportation I ws thinking that larger animals could be used for that, such as riding on a bird or the back of a cat. Or a wheeled cart pulled by an old dog.

Last edited by zester (2013-01-08 19:19:07)

No its just one.

Here is a Lookout Tower, I noticed after I did it that the ladder is wrong (To wide and not enough steps) the tower its self is 4+ stories high and looks it in Maratis with the other buildings in comparison. But the ladder just looks plain wrong.

I also added a bell to the church, my kids think it looks more like  school so I migh be removing the cross call that a school and save the cross for graves or something.

Last edited by zester (2013-01-08 22:37:11)