Hey, I'm not sure if you guys are speaking to me or John Doom. His project is excellent! I'll respond as if you guys are asking me these questions. Regarding my NPC project, it has not come to a halt for sure. Ninelan seems to really have a handle on the NPC character 3D project, with lots of great screenshots of her work on the Discord. Considering how dedicated she seems to be to getting that done, and how far along she seems to be, I've shifted my focus to other more direly needed areas, such as 3D enemies (and I have a blend file prepped to model and texture all the player-held weapons as well, and if someone tells me they know how to implement them, I'll get that one done pretty quickly). I haven't modeled weapons yet, but I have done a couple of enemies. As a matter of fact, here are two I've made so far:
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- dfu spider black 3.PNG (652.76 KiB) Viewed 1813 times
each enemy is ideally under 5,000 triangles, and they are rigged with automatic weights, which could be touched up later. If people give me more exact specs needed, I can be sure to adhere to them. These textures are very slapped together and can always be refined by me or others later on.
I've been trying to do the difficult non-human base mesh ones first, but i fully plan on making all the enemies. At my current skill level, I am happy to say it is not impossible. it takes about 4 hours to model each one, and about 2 more to texture it, and maybe 1 to rig each one.
In case there is any confusion, I should make it clear I am not John Doom; I just wanted to help with his project of 3D Enemies, though it doesn't seem to be very active right now. So I don't clutter up John Doom's thread, I just started my own thread in Creator's Corner about the 3D enemies.
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As far as whether these things i've made use ragdoll stuff. I'm happy to add that if it's easy, but I think that would happen inside Unity, but I don't know much about adding that tech.
