about a possible way to turn garrett into someone else

RavynousHunter on 5/6/2006 at 14:51

i was wondering if anyone was working on a way to turn garrett into someone else, ie: a hammerite or city watch guard, in thief 3.

Mahoney on 5/6/2006 at 15:03

It sounds as if Garrett would be a spy/assassin like in Hitman or possible Commandos.

DarkElf_Mairead on 5/6/2006 at 15:54

There might be a way, something to do with skins. I never messed with that stuff though so I wouldn't be the one to ask.

New Horizon on 5/6/2006 at 16:12

Quote Posted by DarkElf_Mairead

There might be a way, something to do with skins. I never messed with that stuff though so I wouldn't be the one to ask.

You would need to be able to swap in a new model. Skinning the current Garrett model would look horendous since it's modeled to look like Garrett.

ascottk on 5/6/2006 at 16:22

There's only two skins for Garrett in TDS, the regular and the "stitch mode" Garrett where he's transparent. I guess the stitch mode was going to be used in the Cradle.

I asked the same question when I first joined ttlg:
(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94504)

I managed to add a totally new AI mesh into T3Ed:
(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104828&page=3)

Quote Posted by ascottk

How about EgyptMaleA from ut2003?

<embed width="352" height="288" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://v1.tinypic.com/player.swf?file=data26/98/skyyrt&autoStart=false"></embed>

:thumb:

I'm still learning how to properly physique the characters, as you can see some stray vertices on the feet and side. But using (http://home.ripway.com/2005-4/295136/t3import.zip) Shockeye's milkshape t3 importer, and cannonfodder's smd importer for max, you can import skeletal meshes and the bones!

I haven't had the time to do any more tweaking. Someone actually sent me another Garrett model:

Quote Posted by ascottk

I had something interesting come my way (& the animations with the cape came with the editor but they seem very buggy):

(http://img119.imageshack.us/my.php?image=garret011sl.jpg)

Inline Image:

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/4641/garret011sl.th.jpg(http://img119.imageshack.us/my.php?image=garret026nd.jpg)

Inline Image:

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/5506/garret026nd.th.jpg(http://img86.imageshack.us/my.php?image=garret038fs.jpg)

Inline Image:

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/475/garret038fs.th.jpg

I won't get into details on how I got it, but this is Garrett_07 and the TDS version is Garrett_08. Apparently it didn't meet the polygon quota . . . He looks rather worn, don't you think?

If I have time over the summer, I try to get that model into the game.

DarkElf_Mairead on 6/6/2006 at 17:09

Oh I forgot about third person view. I was just picturing the arms being changed.

Yametha on 7/6/2006 at 12:40

If you're playing in 1st person view only (As in TMP) then you could just ignore 3rd person view, then reskinning would be a more viable option.

Anyway, if you forgot that 3rd person view existed, you're hardly going to miss it! ;)