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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	(normal) (broken)
grip of rapier	rapier_grip	Normal	TBA	256 x 256 or equivalent	(normal)
gripguard of rapier (with all adds)	rapier_gripGuard, gripGuardAdd	Normal	TBA	512 x 512 or equivalent	(normal)
Pumel of rapier	rapier_pumel	Normal	TBA	256 x 256 or equivalent	(normal)
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	[LINK]
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

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