Game Design Independent Study

The semester has come to an end and Zombi5ed is finally finished. These are all of the final characters that are in-game. 

It’s been a fun semester, and overall we are pleased with what we were able to shell out in only 3 months.

-Alex

Credit: Alexander Schiffhauer, Andrew Largent and Evan Wilson

This is the fully modeled soldier.  He also will be textured within the next 2-3 days.

This is the final modeled medic.  He will be textured within the next 2-3 days.

These are the guns we have modeled so far.  The halo-like machine gun and pistols are for the scout.  The mini-gun is the default weapon for the heavy.  His other weapon is attached to him (his robotic-rocket-launcher-arm).

This is the female zombie.  She is fully textured and animated.

This is the male zombie.  He is completely textured and animated.

This is the updated scene of the current game.

Some key additions I have made to the game: everything is now rendered in a toon-shader, there are collision boundaries, meaning you cannot wonder off the map, many more textures, a new skybox.  Note the animation on the character is not present: this is because I have yet to redo animation for the scout.

Enjoy

This is the textured version of the heavy.  We experienced some issues with stretched UVs at the side, but overall he looks relatively good.

Credit: Evan Wilson, Andrew Largent, Alexander Schiffhauer

This is the fully textured scout rendered.  The scout is totaling in at roughly 1200 polygons, which is low enough for a main character.  Throughout the following weeks, we might make slight changes if we learn better ways for texturing, but for now this is our final scout.

I will have to completely redo the IK on the scout for some unexplainable reasons - apparently cinema 4d cannot import .3ds max files as nicely as one would like. I also had to edit many parts of the texture since the .3ds file did not properly import.

credits for texture: evan wilson, andrew largent, alex schiffhauer

A very, very rough version of the female zombie.  Her shape is not even close to being done, not to mention she has way too many polygons for a zombie.

This is a semi-completed heavy.  I am still working on some of the ratios, but he is almost finished.

This is the updated and fully textured version of the house we plan on using in-game.  As one can see, this is very different than the house I posted only a few days ago - I have been editing this house non-stop, trying to get a better feel to it.

It still has a bit of a way to go, but it is now much closer to being done than before.

This is the scout character model that is fully modeled (not textured).  There is a 30 frame walk cycle, that is very choppy, and nowhere near its final quality.

Throughout doing this, I learned a lot about how Unity imports Cinema 4D’s .c4d extension into a .fbx.  Sadly, I learned it at a slower pace than I would have liked - I had to redo the walk cycle a total of four times (this includes redoing weight distributions on joints), because I did not know to model using bones, as opposed to joints.

This week I worked on building the house from the given floor plans.  Texturing ratios still need to be worked out, along with the overall polygon-design of the house.  (Right now, due to some reversed normals, some parts of the actual house are “invisible” in-game.)

Some examples of basic working IK.

Note that only the upper body is finished; however, weight distributions are not perfected, meaning some polygons are bending in ways not intended.