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Eldron on 12/3/2009 at 07:59

Quote Posted by Kolya

There's a tiny problem: (http://www.users.on.net/~triforce/meshes.html) Biped meshes should be built around an existing thief model from the start. Animating one that wasn't is a bitch.

No problem at all, It's only posed after modelling it up, its essentially exactly the same proportions as the old one, so that is no problem :)

I think their system was based largely on their gigantic library of motioncaptures, so they could just bring in a mesh and have it be rigged automagicly, its fast, and most enemies in ss2 are based around this rig.

Now it's not something that you would do today, it just doesn't work, rigging is a form of art, deformations in thief and ss2 are quite bad, it has to be done by hand to really look good.

but as I said, they could bring in and edit meshes easily without having to worry about the rig.

Nameless Voice on 20/5/2009 at 00:05

So... what ever happened to a download link for this?

The_Raven on 20/5/2009 at 02:01

I don't think there ever was one.

Eldron on 22/5/2009 at 11:19

never got around actually getting this into the game.

Nameless Voice on 22/5/2009 at 12:09

Get someone else to do it for you? ;)

metal dawn on 23/5/2009 at 02:54

That's a delicious midwife you got there. Yum yum!

Navigator on 25/5/2009 at 21:02

This is really cool. I hope you find a way to work the model into the game.

Anatoly_Korenchkin on 14/7/2009 at 21:20

This is very cool. Even has Bloome's hair. Great stuff.

All these things ive missed out on in my six month sabbatical from the forums... blimey :angel:

silhouette on 20/7/2009 at 20:55

Hi... long time SS2 fan.

Anyway...

So, I joined the forum just to offer my praise for just how absolutely amazing that midwife model looks. If you did your own Rebirth/SHTUP model/texture pack, I would cry tears of joy.

Well done. :thumb:

Sorry... that is all.

Nameless Voice on 7/3/2010 at 00:07

Bumping this thread again, partially to ask why Eld never sent me the model to rig and get into the game, and partially to muse that DDFix would allow character models with very high-resolution textures, without requiring re-UV-mapping.