R Soul on 20/1/2013 at 23:23

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A while ago I noticed one of the 1.19 improvements was a fix for arm rendering, so I thought I'd have a go at custom carry-body objects. The last time I tried this I had rendering issues, so I was limited to editing the texture rather than the object. Now that the arm rendering is fixed, the results have been much more promising.

At first I was simply going to remap the textures, but then I had a go at increasing the polycount:

(http://s912.photobucket.com/albums/ac326/rsoulinternet/Dromed/yellowarse_zps3cf2ca1f.jpg) http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac326/rsoulinternet/Dromed/th_yellowarse_zps3cf2ca1f.jpg

What do you think?

R Soul on 21/1/2013 at 00:01

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That's the corner of a swimming pool.

R Soul on 21/1/2013 at 01:17

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Here's an example with an AI who has a short coat:

(http://s912.photobucket.com/albums/ac326/rsoulinternet/Dromed/maleserv1LM.jpg) http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac326/rsoulinternet/Dromed/th_maleserv1LM.jpg

R Soul on 25/1/2013 at 02:11

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I've done most of the original AI now. The models all follow a few standard formats so for each new object I just change the texture and tweak* the texture mapping.

*I very nearly said tweq :tsktsk:

R Soul on 26/4/2013 at 23:47

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I'm finally releasing this:
(http://catmanofiowa.com/RSoul/CarryBody.zip)

I also made some ".dml" files to patch the original gamesys (only while playing, see doc\dbmod-sample.dml for info), and the original missions. Dml files don't get applied in Dromed without setting a config var (again, see the sample dml file). It's tempting to enable it to update your own gamesys, but I'm not sure what would happen if you then picked up a body whose limb model was not extracted. It might be best to do it on an archetype by archetype basis.