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Ingame weapon system, modeling and texturing guide

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  • Ingame weapon system, modeling and texturing guide (top)

    Main set of weapons, used in HoO is made in modular design. Here is guidelines for it.

    The systems main idea, is to have all weapons in modular design, that is cut-a-part. And those parts could be changeable in-game, to use the same resources and to make bigger variety of weapons.


    Model requirements (top)

    Rapier models (top)

    (dagers, rapiers)
    Name of part
    partType
    Model versions
    orient polys
    orient texture
    Link to example
    Blade of rapier
    rapier_blade
    Normal, Broken
    100 - 300 polys
    512 x 512 or equivalent
    grip of rapier
    rapier_grip
    Normal
    TBA
    256 x 256 or equivalent
    gripguard of rapier (with all adds)
    rapier_gripGuard, gripGuardAdd
    Normal
    TBA
    512 x 512 or equivalent
    Pumel of rapier
    rapier_pumel
    Normal
    TBA
    256 x 256 or equivalent
    All parts
    rapier
    All of the above
    TBA
    all of the above as seperate atlass textures.
    All of the above

    Rapier textures (top)

    (dagers, rapiers)

    File naming (top)

    To understand it all, you need to understand how it all is named.

    list is not complete. Listing only implemented or work in progress items.

    • Model names
      • [weaponBranch]_[partType]_[preID][ID][postID]_[modelState]_[LOD],
        example „rapier_blade_r01a_normal_LOD0
        • rapier_blade_r01a_normal_LOD0 — weaponBranch
          defines which branch do weapon model belongs to.
        • rapier_blade_r01a_normal_LOD0 — partType
          defines which role model takes on the item.
        • rapier_blade_r01a_normal_LOD0 — preID
          defines limitations for usage of this model in curent branch. In this case, "r" defines, that his model can be used only for with rapiers. "d" would meen, that this item can be used only with dagers. In case of multyple "limitations" two or more letters can be used in this place.
        • rapier_blade_r01a_normal_LOD0 — ID
          ID of the model. Just simple as that.
        • rapier_blade_r01a_normal_LOD0 — postID
          defines the ID of texture used for that model, in this case "a" stamds for "alpha". "b" would stand for "beta".
        • rapier_blade_r01a_normal_LOD0 — modelState
          defines the state of the model. This is changed dinamically in-game, depending of event. "Normal", meens standart base model. "Broken" would be used in cases of... braking a sword...
        • rapier_blade_r01a_normal_LOD0 — LOD
    • Texture names
      • [weaponBranch]_[partType]_[ID]_[RID]_[LOD]_[fileType],
        example „rapier_gripGuard_alpha_steel_LOD0_diff
        • rapier_gripGuard_alpha_steel_LOD0_diff — weaponBranch
          defines which branch do weapon texture belongs to.
        • rapier_gripGuard_alpha_steel_LOD0_diff — partType
          defines of what role models texture is covering up.
        • rapier_gripGuard_alpha_steel_LOD0_diff — ID
          ID of texture, defined in models [postID] section.
        • rapier_gripGuard_alpha_steel_LOD0_diff — RID
          retexture ID (steel, gold...). State texture (alpha'ed) ID to be used depending on the event of the game (bloody)
        • rapier_gripGuard_alpha_steel_LOD0_diff — LOD
        • rapier_gripGuard_alpha_steel_LOD0_diff — diff, ddn, spec and so on...

    Detailed file variable list

    list is not complete. Listing only implemented or work in progress items.

    • weaponBranch
      • melee branches
        • rapier — rapier, dager
        • unique — one time weapons, that do ignore modular system.
    • partType
      • rapier
        • blade — blade
        • grip — grip
        • gripGuard — grip guard
        • gripGuardAdd — additional (optional) content for the grip guard.
        • pumel — pumel
    • preID
      • rapier
        • d — dagger
        • r — rapier
    • RID
      • recolors — goldem, silver, leather, woodend and so on...
      • states — blood, rust and other alpha'ed layers placed on top of recolor.
    • modelState
      • normal — standart model
      • broken — broken model, used in case of braking.

    Model and texture list, ID's used ant authors. (top)

    model
    explanation
    texture used
    author(s) of the model
    Sketchfab
    rapier_blade_d01a_broken_LOD0
    broken dager blade
    d - dager only
    a - alpha
    @SuperDurnius
    rapier_blade_d01a_normal_LOD0
    normal dager blade
    d - dager only
    a - alpha
    @SuperDurnius
    rapier_blade_d02a_broken_LOD0
    broken dager blade
    d - dager only
    a - alpha
    @SuperDurnius
    rapier_blade_d02a_normal_LOD0
    normal dager blade
    d - dager only
    a - alpha
    @SuperDurnius
    rapier_blade_r01a_broken_LOD0
    broken rapier blade
    r - rapier only
    a - alpha
    @SuperDurnius
    rapier_blade_r01a_normal_LOD0
    normal rapier blade
    r - rapier only
    a - alpha
    @SuperDurnius
    rapier_blade_r02a_broken_LOD0
    broken rapier blade
    r - rapier only
    a - alpha
    @SuperDurnius
    rapier_blade_r02a_normal_LOD0
    normal rapier blade
    r - rapier only
    a - alpha
    @SuperDurnius
    rapier_gripguard_d01a_normal_LOD0
    rapier grip guard
    d - dager only
    a - alpha
    @SuperDurnius
    rapier_gripguard_d02a_normal_LOD0
    rapier grip guard
    d - dager only
    a - alpha
    @SuperDurnius
    rapier_gripguard_r01a_normal_LOD0
    rapier grip guard
    r - rapier only
    a - alpha
    @SuperDurnius
    rapier_gripguard_r02a_normal_LOD0
    rapier grip guard
    r - rapier only
    a - alpha
    @SuperDurnius
    rapier_gripguard_r03a_normal_LOD0
    rapier grip guard
    r - rapier only
    a - alpha
    @SuperDurnius


    texture
    author(s) of thetexture
    rapier_blade_alpha_blood_LOD0_diff
    Alpha'ed texture of blood for rapiers_blade_alpha
    @SuperDurnius
    rapier_blade_alpha_steel_LOD0_diff
    rapier blade alpha texture, steel re-texture
    @SuperDurnius
    rapier_gripGuard_alpha_gold_LOD0_diff
    rapier grip guard alpha texture, gold re-texture
    @SuperDurnius
    rapier_gripGuard_alpha_steel_LOD0_diff
    rapier grip guard alpha texture, steel re-texture
    @SuperDurnius

    WiP as of 2014-10-01
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