nope, dont see why i would.

alright, lets stay on the topic of this BW mod.

ok then.

Captain Xavious, is there going to be any new guns in the mod?

Eventually.

after a few months?

just wait, he'll tell us when its done.

Yeah, seriously. Don't keep bugging me, it won't speed things up. I'll get it done and released when I feel its ready. Right now it isn't. I have no texture artist or sound effects guy.

If you'd be willing to help with this I can fill you in more on it and probably get it out faster.

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Thats bad ass Xav, really.
the view of the animations could be adjusted maybe, but its looking good so far

*Bearhugs Xav until his eyes pop out of his skull, before promptly scooping them up and awkwardly positioning them back in their sockets* EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE *Breath* EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE *Takes another breath* EEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeee............. *Passes out*

(P.S. to any moron who didn't quite get it: I'm obviously excited!)

You mutilated the first guy so much that there is some parts that i never saw before(even after exploding someone with a HAMR)
(I'm talking about the muscles)
Just imagine the hell it will do in 20x more gibs!!!

The first guy was actually a demon, those muscle bits you see are just the regular model... er, whats left of it anyways.

But anyways, lets just say that I'm not just blowing wind about new weapons being made for BW.

By the way, check the original post. I'm letting you guys look at what exactly it is that I got working on. Feel free to give me suggestions and/or concept art for weapons in the early stages of concept.

Chain blade ??!?! *More high-pitched screaming* If that's not referring to the chainsaw, then that makes me very happy! Not quite a chain ax, but still awesome! Finally, I have melee weapons more than a simple stabby-pointy piece of CRAP! Now I have chainsaws, and a freaking MORNING STAR! CHAINED FLAILS FTW!!!

*Note to self: Start taking nerdgasm medication*

These new toys of death are looking gorgeous so far, Xav. Fantastic work you're doing.

A question: Are you going to use the BW hand texture for your models? I think it would be a strong move since this is a pack for BW.

XLR 28 is the chainsaw. Chain Blade is just that. Chain axe though... hmm... I like axes... I like chainsaws... now theres an idea... Chain Blade first though.

And a morning star is not a flail. A morning star has a fixed head. But I do want to make a flail at some point. Would be a bit tricky to animate though, but not really a problem.

The morning star might end up being something like a holy water sprinkler though. It will likely be powered and/or augmented by some means. Perhaps it splashes freezing liquid onto those so truly deserving of a righteous smiting?

As for the hand texture, well, it isn't quite as simple as just applying the BW hand texture to mine. They are laid out differently, for a true example, the back of the hand on the BW hand is where the wrist would be for mine.

I do plan on altering the BW hand to make one that fits my hands. Won't look exact, but it will be pretty close, hopefully.

sweet chainsaw

Chainsaw looks awesome. Can't wait!!

Are you sure? In Neverwinter Nights the Morning Star is a singe-hand chained flail with various types of spike-covered heads. Still, CHAINSAAAAAWS!

Neverwinter Nights is a game. Its not the wisest idea to go off that.

Especially considering how far off they are from the source of that game, Dungeons & Dragons.

But anyways, since I've been working a job, I haven't had the energy to do much during the week, so my progress will be slowed a bit. I do plan to get at least one weapon in each weekend though.

By the way, you might be happy to hear that much of my inspiration is drawn from WH40k, so there may be some things that might interest fans of WH40k quite a bit sometime down the road.

the textures on the hands make you look like a first person zombie game, where you are the zombie... now that would be fun.

brainssss, brainssss... Human flesh festers... FEED US!!!

sorry, i don't know what came over me... must be The Darkness...

anyway, i can't wait to see how these turn out... i wish i knew how to texture... but i don't...

those aren't really textures Zero, its more of a model with a lack of texture

It's called the default UT2k4 texture. If there is no texture on it, that is applied automatically.

Hows progress coming?

Poorly...

Work has me waking up at 66 in the morning, I get out of work by 4 to 6, and then have at least an hour's worth of stuff to do once I'm home, and soon I'll be working 6 days a week.

So I haven't even touched my work lately...

Yesterday, I decided I'm going to get working on this again and started up Maya PLE... guess what?

I get a message telling me that I only have 29 days left before I have to reregister. But I can't reregister this version of Maya PLE, its the only version with support for exporting to UT2004. No, as far as Autodesk is concerned, that version doesn't even exist. I have to upgrade to their newest version. A several hundred MB download most likely, with this 26K dial up connection. The newest version can NOT export to UT2004.

Oh, and I had this version of Maya 5.0 PLE for, lets see... 4 years? Legally the entire time, I might add. It was supposed to be an unlimited program, with its only drawbacks being watermarks and very limited porting, but NO trial period.

♥♥♥♥♥ DAMN IT!

Companies pulling shit like this is why people pirate software.

So now I have all my models out of Maya, with none of the Animations being saved other than in UT2004's contained format, and I'm really, really pissed.

Every time I start getting back into Maya, something hits the ♥♥♥♥♥ reset switch. Really pisses me off.

Now I have to acquire another program that can port stuff to UT2004 and relearn how to do everything...

Xavious, i hear Blender is a great modeling, animation, and what not program. i also have heard its used for games such as ut2004... so maybe that totally free program could be of use.
Of course you'll have to get use to the new style of program but its a great free program(that i have not yet mastered at all).

Lawsuit. If it SAID it was an unlimited program in an official download, then they can't force you to reregister and move onto a program version you do not want. I might be misunderstanding, but you were given no prior notice that anything such as this could ever HAPPEN to you, whether from management or neccessity to fix something, you were given no notice and as of now with the update of the unmentioned trial period, it is a blatant LIE, and now that I think of it, it was a LIE back then if the trial period was ever in position then, and if the software was changed, then it is likely that they never mentioned the copyright change with the minor update.

I might have misunderstood the description you made, but that is a suggestion. That, or chainsaw murder the CEO and do a hostile takeover. We all know you have experience with that . At least the chainsaw part....

Oh, i know what it is, im saying it looks a bit like zombie hands.

Meh... lawsuits cost much money, something AutoDesk has and I don't...

Anyways, yes, I'm moving to Blender. I did find one PSK/PSA exporter for it, though it sounds like its far from perfect. Sent an email to the author of it, but do you know of a good UT2004 plugin for it?

I don't know if you already knew those tutorials:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Tutorials

Hope it helps

I would ask at the blender forums about ut2004 plugins, im sure they can link you to anything that you require.

Yeah, I'll do that soon.

And thanks for the tuts, Glos!