Very bad news

[SeppukoPanda]

Epic, I'm looking forward to this.

[Ryo Hazukki]

Holy fucking shit-balls is all I gotta say to that. Seriously, I knew you were good but fuck me, that's pretty incredible.

[Nits-Ujio]

Lets say you were to get this game made. What console would you put it on? I really love the models, however, I believe there are just too many polygons and details. If you could reduce them, then it would be able to play far better on certain platforms. But again, it depends on what console/system you want to play them on, and when it would be released.

[OL]

Lets say you were to get this game made. What console would you put it on? I really love the models, however, I believe there are just too many polygons and details. If you could reduce them, then it would be able to play far better on certain platforms. But again, it depends on what console/system you want to play them on, and when it would be released.

BAN!!!

[Bluecast]

Lets say you were to get this game made. What console would you put it on? I really love the models, however, I believe there are just too many polygons and details. If you could reduce them, then it would be able to play far better on certain platforms. But again, it depends on what console/system you want to play them on, and when it would be released.

PC.
And be released whenever Dino feels it's ready I would imagine.

[random331]

ok here shenmue poster


soon i will post a storyboard

[Resident Joel]

Shouldn't that read "Coming when I find some programmers"? Or has that been taken care of now?

[Kenny]

I assume you'll be doing all the cutscenes yourself?

[Jesus]

Those are some pretty realistic scenes you're posting up. I wish you the best of luck with this project. It's apparent that you're putting plenty of effort into this. I hope with this and all the other the things Shenmue fans are doing, we can bring back Shenmue!

[Ryo's Room]

coming along well i see

[MiTT3NZ]

A storyboard? Dude, please.. just stick to the modeling.

[Mr.Tambourine Man]

Did you ever use that theory about Zhu Yuan Da for your game, dino?

[Denny]

some of the detail in my shenmue game

some textures are hidden cause they slow down my PC

First off, you're a very talented modeler and as someone doing games design in college I respect your work. Kudos.

However, I feel that I have to step in here and make a few things known that I feel are problems. From my point of view detail is one thing but modeling every nut and bolt or every capsule is wasting polygons. Granted it looks superb but when games are developed developers, even by todays standards, must cut on polys whenever they see fit. Seeing as you're into softimage I assume you know what I mean. For instance, in college we're currently making a level set around a saw mill. I'm modeling in 3ds max and try to watch my poly count for any given mesh as if I were to curve every surface and detail every single point then the game would ground to a stand still. If you're going ahead with this project I suggest going back to the start and modeling it with polygons in mind unless you want something that's extremely slow. Rendering it out in a nice image is one thing but playing it at a smooth frame rate is another.

Also, from what I've seen it looks like you're making the whole thing in softimage. If you were to import that to a game engine it'd be almost impossible to code around it. In our game we're doing I make every single mesh a separate file with the UVW files bundled with it. That's how it should be done to be honest even within the industry.

I seriously don't say this to put a damper on the project as it looks lovely. I was just snooping around as I plan on making an environment from Shenmue in 3d within the Half Life 2 Source Engine and I thought I'd trow in my two cents.

[ThomasMackenzie]

some of the detail in my shenmue game

some textures are hidden cause they slow down my PC

First off, you're a very talented modeler and as someone doing games design in college I respect your work. Kudos.

However, I feel that I have to step in here and make a few things known that I feel are problems. From my point of view detail is one thing but modeling every nut and bolt or every capsule is wasting polygons. Granted it looks superb but when games are developed developers, even by todays standards, must cut on polys whenever they see fit. Seeing as you're into softimage I assume you know what I mean. For instance, in college we're currently making a level set around a saw mill. I'm modeling in 3ds max and try to watch my poly count for any given mesh as if I were to curve every surface and detail every single point then the game would ground to a stand still. If you're going ahead with this project I suggest going back to the start and modeling it with polygons in mind unless you want something that's extremely slow. Rendering it out in a nice image is one thing but playing it at a smooth frame rate is another.

Also, from what I've seen it looks like you're making the whole thing in softimage. If you were to import that to a game engine it'd be almost impossible to code around it. In our game we're doing I make every single mesh a separate file with the UVW files bundled with it. That's how it should be done to be honest even within the industry.

I seriously don't say this to put a damper on the project as it looks lovely. I was just snooping around as I plan on making an environment from Shenmue in 3d within the Half Life 2 Source Engine and I thought I'd trow in my two cents.

you do have a point there, detail is good. but toomuch detail and lag will start to set it and framerates will be 0!

[Krattle]

I have to agree. Unless you are just making Sakuragaoka there's no way anyone could handle this game. If you plan on modeling all of the same environments seen in Shenmue then you had better split it the same way they did in the game. You had also better make some big decisions about what needs to be modeled and what can be more effectively achieved with a texture, e.g. nuts and bolts or the entire interior of a car. Just black out the windows like they did in the game. Not to mention you'll never finish if you try to maintain that level of detail - you'll just burn yourself out.

If we all had 12 GB RAM and 4 state-of-the-art graphics cards and a 3.8 GHz overclocked quad-core processor, then I would say go ahead, put as much f***ing detail in the game as you want, but no one owns that kind of comp. I wish we could all own comps like that so we could play games that detailed.