i wish i knew how to model. i downloaded blender but its very hard to get for a beginner like me.

Ok cool! So for which engine did you settled? Good luck man!


If you have any free time it can be easily learned, don't get me wrong, it will be a daunting task but if you just follow like 50-100 tutorials (I'm serious) You will understand the 3D application (In your case Blender), You won't make the most beautiful stuff at first but that will really come with experience. :)

Thanks,The engine is unity
Yeah I agree this is what I did when I first started.

Update:

here is the new model of Abe for you all to see, he still has no eyes nor a texture but they will be made sometime next week. the first 2 images are the sub-patched model for use in cutscenes and so on and the other 2 are in game Abe

Abe looks better than he did in the original!

Hey thanks

Yeah I think its improved alot from my last model since I got the Art of Oddworld book this morning. Just need to texture him now.

nOWtun

Great work!

You got the book? Awesome.

He looks almost perfect!! i'm sure he will look perfect with the final textures.

Agreed

Where you guys have eyes :)? You don't see that head is too big what makes character looking like baby mudokon? :).

I agree that arms, legs and chest are looking good (maybe some proportions tweaking) but it's not perfect yet.

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