I can see the proportions are not right. Didn't really want to say anything though cause I'm not sure whether nowtun's looking for perfection or not. I still think it's really great :)

i personally think his head is to proportion compairing it to oddworld original untextured models of abe. see page 40 of the oddworld book for a sculpture of abe that oddworld made

thanks STM, and yeah i got the book yesterday which is where i was able to studdy abes anatomy properly from

Im working on it right now

thanks man, im aiming to get him as close as i can to the original but im obviously not going to get it exactly like oddworld managed but im happy wit the result so far

I don't think it's a big enough issue. As long as things are a step up from the original AO, it doesn't matter that they're not perfect. They're good, and that's what matters.

That's looking awesome man, i had a go at making a fat abe for my year 2 character modelling project at uni, wasn't anywhere near as good as that, lol.
The stuff i've seen of this is looking sweet, gonna be awesome if you continue at the quality you've been working at...

I just want this remake to be a step up from munches oddysee and demonstrate how it could have been done differently while retaining the original oddworld feel. But only time will tell if I achieve this.


Thanks for the comments, you should get your abe model up on here I'd like to see it.

Maybe you, Nowtun can ask Daft.Eng for model of Scrab, if you plan making Scrabania in your remake.

Yeah its an idea I was thinking the same last night but I'm concentrating on rupture farms only at the mo so i only need mudokons and sligs....... for the time being

nOWtun

Great work!
I'm just asking, do you have any idea of when we will be able to grab hold of a demo? :)

at this point I'm still unsure of when the demo will be ready but we're working on it. once a demo is released it shouldnt be too long before the actual game is released... if all goes to plan

Damn; this remake is looking better with every update, can't wait to try it out. :P

this is epic keep on going

Hm... So far I have been proven very wrong. This is looking pretty good. And you seem to have actually accounted for most of it... Well done indeed. You've earned my praise. Not that it means that much.

thanks man, hopefully wont be much longer.

thanks stitchlips

i have a "to do" list, and im slowly working my way through it whenever i get the time between working and looking after my son. theres hundreds of animations for abe alone and i havnt even started modeling a slig yet (hint hint Daft.Eng :-P )

thanks dude, praise comming from another oddworld fan does mean a lot

I'd be more excited about this if my computer would be able to run it.

I'm still looking forward to this, though.

It should work on all current computers. But higher end computers will get the best graphics obviously.



Here's the link to abe's walk, run and sneak cycles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHVTIJliMXU

All comments welcome

nOWtun

it's good but y is he rainbow-colored?O.o

EDIT: oh and i think his arms should be more stretched while running and less stretched while sneaking...

The colours are his weight maps lol

Nice. Now model is looking a lot better. Hard to say something about animation when it is slowed down an when character isn't moving forward. But on first view it's looking right

Looks really nice! Can't wait till its finished :D

the animation will be speeded up accordingly in the game engine and the reason its animated on the spot is because that is how the engine requires it to be.

thanks man, theres quite a few animations to do untill its done, couple of hundred i think lol

Nice! I hope this all doesn't fail horribly! 'Cause that would suck! Damn, I jinksed it

Yeah, his face actually kinda reminds me of Crash Bandicoot. I don't know why, but I think the body is excellent. The face, however; I think you should make him not so happy. He's smiling and I know you can't animate the face for in-game reasons, but I think you should make him not smiling if possible. Other than that, you have some an excellent job and your wife has done an excellent job wit the texturing! I hope you go through with his whole game and don't lose interest. I hope this turns out great! :)

yeah thanks for that spandex

i put his mouth in as neutral possition as i could. but im not allowed to animate his head at allcuz were implementing interest points into the game. i think hes less smiley now than the previous model though.

thanks for the comments, the support is much appreciated :-)

and she's still working on the texture, getting it as close to the texture in the book as possible, but its hard as lightwave doesnt seem to fully support UV unwrapping unless its done externaly then re-inported back into lightwave.... which is a bitch to do.

dot worry, i wont lose interest in this project, ive been working on it for about 4 years total now, lerning lightwave as i went. i made about 5 different paramonias and 3 rupturefarms, i scrapped each one of them... the new rupture farms is still undergoing constant changes as i work on it (updating or tweakin the layout more than anything)

im using farcry 2 as inspiration for the new paramonia

I am loving this so far. I can't wait to try this out. I hope this isn't another project that will die. Also what happened to Joshkrz project?...his 2D one.

Definately not gonna give up on this project. I've worked too hard to give up on this now.

Sorry I dont think I saw Joshkrz project.

nOWtun

This is a very good project. We're all expecting great things of you, Nowtun!

Holy crap, 4 years? You are very determined to do this :)
Patience is the key. Good luck. Hope this Rupture Farms will be THE ONE :)

No pressure there then lol :D

Its 4 years of spare time, not continuous. Inbetween the other projects I've been working on, not got this close to a demo before tho :p

Thanks

nOWtun

my project have almost one year (in spare time) :P. Time flies fast :)

i actualy only just got back to making my oddworld project when i joined here, which was in july i think. thats when i started rupture farms again from scratch for the 4th-ish time lol

any more updates on yours?

maybe. I just got back to it today after 2 or 3 weeks break.

be good to see more

its good to take a break every now and again, get a fresh mind

Hopefully not TOO many breaks, though, so there can still be some progress! :)

working on abes animations bit by bit every day so theres always progress :-)

This is awesome keep it up
(would you even do the secret levels???)

thanks man :-)

RuptureFarms is almost complete, thats including the secret areas (but for the stockyard ones for now) but every single screen in abe's oddysee with be modeled.... with some extras inbetween....

Here's a quick screen shot of some of the objects in Rupture farms.

Does anyone know where I can get a good image of elum chubs, mudokon pops, new N tasty and meech munchies?

nOWtun

if u cant find them, i'll be happy to make them for you. This is a poster I made for a development community earlier this year:
http://i51.tinypic.com/2ylkbao.png

oh, and i'm liking that rendered image :)

hey that would be great if you could make them... thanks
obviously you will be credited :-)

nice poster by the way

Have you got any kind of reference images? for any of the products you mentioned? I found a decent "high"-res image of meech munchies.

It'd be best if you asked/looked around on this forum, because I'd bet someone at one time or another has already remade the posters ;)