afflicted animation/lighting test
model
retopo
sculpt
concept art
sprite version

bonus: scrapped deformvertexes shader stuff - I like the undulating effect, it makes the purulent masses look volatile. Sadly, I couldn't find a way to keep the outer vertices of the boils attached to the body mesh thus avoiding the clipping so I ditched the idea entirely. Not a huge loss, the effect is so minor I doubt it would even be noticed during gameplay.

I'm not crazy about the model and it wasn't fun to make. It still needs a lot of work but I'm happy to have the bulk of it behind me. Now on to more interesting enemies... 

You put a lot of work in it. It's quiet a challenge to create a model from scratch, but it sure comes out right.

While working on a new model it is hard to keep a fresh vieuw on it. Hardest part for me is painting the skin file.

Would be fun to see it in game, maybe like a Rune greenish sprite of bad smoke. 

Got an authentic Northern Britain skin care regime look there. 

I really like the super deformed concept art, any reason you didn't go with this idea? 

@madfox - Thanks, and you're right, it's pretty challenging. I don't think the hardest part for me is the painting, it's probably the rigging... or the retopology.... or the weight painting... or the overwhelming feeling that I'm fucking up throughout the entire production of the model. eh, it all sucks IMO :P

@shambler - I don't know what that regime is and I don't want to (maybe a little... drugs?).

@fifth - short answer: a mistake on my part rooted in lack of experience and the desire for the model to read well in-game.

long answer: original tests (with sprites) taught me that the thin, mangled and busy form of the original afflicted just didn't read nearly as well as the bulky, simple enemies from games of yore example so I simplified the sprite (see my previous post). That line of thinking carried over to the models. I'm not happy with the afflicted and will redo it at a later time and make it more interesting and grotesque. The current one is adequate for dev, so I'll be using it for a while. 

First have to make disasters
before one can judge the favorite one. 

Weight painting sucks.
Rigging sucks.
Retopo sucks (I generally just avoid it but then again I don't sculpt much).
Animating a poorly retopoed, poorly rigged, poorly weighted model sucks.

Animating one that is mostly kinda sorta ok is fun though!

Good luck, looking pretty good. As for redoing later, you could maybe just swell up a shoulder or something else simple. 

https://i.imgur.com/GMD9KEM.png
https://i.imgur.com/m9z33ML.png
https://i.imgur.com/9lgDi0r.png
https://i.imgur.com/AcEqt0y.png
https://i.imgur.com/AHv0DYi.png

Inspired by the works of Tsutomu Nihei and brutalist architecture, the map is focused on exploration (especially vertical) and puzzle than combat. Monsters rather serve as frictions to both elements. It's using Quoth.

I hope I can release a beta version next month. 

Looks cool! 

Very different, will look forward to seeing more. 

Ummm wow. Looking great so far and very unique. 

I uploaded some demos of my first four attempts (actually, demo 4 was my fifth attempt; I just had died so soon in my fourth attempt that I hadn't started recording yet).

http://quaketastic.com/files/demos/bod_esrael.7z

My comments are in the demos, where I comment the lighting as much as possible, as requested by Spy.

I hadn't expected a huge map with over 300 kills, so I guess I'll record more demos and finish the map when I have some more time. And I guess I gotta swallow my pride and quicksave/load. :C 

damn son :)

Looking forward to playing it! 

Looks very interesting especially the tall stuff with nice neat textures. Keep it going man. 

fallen mercenary WIP. Had to pump out one more guy before moving on to more interesting stuff...

@qmaster - it's getting easier...

@sunk - looks cool! 

Thank you Esrael for your demos, i'll make a corretions.

while watching the demos and comments it's makes me realize that you haven't played kinn's huge masterpieces bastion and marcher, the most significant releases of 2000'

so i strongly recomend you to play them,
bod uses the very same assets from kinn's mod

looking forward for your next demos
maybe i should post the updated link 

I sent you an email with demos and a full report. Hope it helps. When this is released I know people are going to love it. 

Thank you, buddy :)

@Esrael, updated link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_A9pL7Zlt6kcHB4U1pTVUVWc1k/view?usp=sharing 

I've done my fifth playthrough now, only this time with the updated map. I died during the second to last arena, so when I quicksaved, I didn't know it stopped recording the demo. It means that there is no demo of me finishing the rest of the map, so I'll just type here the comments that I had made during the last part of my playthough.

The demo is here:
http://quaketastic.com/files/demos/bod_esrael5.7z

There was a point where the map told the player with a direct message to watch his/her step, which is fine in the sense that it spared me from a surprise death. But, I would prefer if there were some indirect clues that made it clear for the player to watch his/her step. Just telling it by a message is the easy way out.

The second to last arena had the player face hordes of a single enemy type, which meant that sometimes the player had plenty of room to just easily walk around to dodge the enemies while taking them out one by one. Especially the scrags were too easy. Maybe a mix of monsters would keep the encounter more engaging? Like some ogres or fiends to keep the player occupied on the ground as well?

Otherwise the map looks really nice and if the lighting used to be bland, it definitely is no more, in my opinion. The ammo balance was a lot better for me this time, and even if the map is long, it didn't feel dragged out to me. There was enough variation to keep things interesting; even a little bit of platforming to change the pace a bit, which was nice.

In the end, I had fun, which is what matters. 

Everybody,

Please check out my new enforcer model:
http://www.quaketastic.com/files/models/enforcer.zip

Screenshot: http://www.quaketastic.com/files/models/ENFORCER.jpg

I would love feedback. Thanks! 

Liking the screenshot! What inspired you to remodel the enforcer, in particular? :) 

Very nice work. It's very subtle at first glance. I went back and forth between the original and yours. The differences are very subtle. More polys for sure but still old-school looking. I like it but I wonder if there's just a bit more detail you could add to the skin or something else to distinguish this from the original? I know it's a fine line though. Overall great work. 

if it's supposed to be a replacement, it probably shouldn't look distinct from the original. 

also, nice work 

@Esreal I wanted to start remaking all the monster models in time. The enforcer is just one that I haven't seen anyone else remake yet, so I figured I'd go with him early on.

@dumptruck_ds I struggled with the concept of adding more differentiations on my model. it would be great to eventually tweak the skin and animations to where it still fits Quake, but is also more noticeably different.

@metlslime yes, i want it to look like it fits Quake, but I do intend on changing it up a little in the future, so that the player easily notices that it is a replacement model.

Thank you all for your kind words.