[WIP|SA] Cartoon peds

[FireproofFlare]

Hi, this is my first mod topic here

 

This mods applies a fake cartoon shader to SA's peds, making them look like a cartoon peds

 

I was using a... let's say "bad way" to apply the effect. A download link is avaliable to download this way's conversions here: http://adf.ly/1zkxc

 

Some progress screens:

 

Also, if someone want to join "the team" (only one guy isn't a team ) just PM me

Edited July 4, 2011 by WarPaz

[riquenunes]

It's a nice idea, but I think you should also give them a cartoon texture and re-work on the prostitute, she looks a little bit weird to me.

[coin-god]

I think the reason some of the black borders look odd is because he did not weld the model. If he does it should look better.

 

But I think it's a good idea, nice work.

[l911]

Very nice it needs new texture but greate job with models

Do you think about making all peds look like that ? It will be nice idea to make TC like that (whole SA in carton style )

it was somthing like that (Bad Day SA i think ) but its dead and they changed just txd's not models .

edit: its possible to do shader like that to cars ?

Edited July 2, 2011 by ludi911

[FireproofFlare]

@henrique Yeah, I should see this

 

@goin-god I've started to use 3DS a very bit time ago, so I'm seeing tutorials and trying to make things with my learnings. Can you link me a tutorial to this?

 

@ludi911 I'll tried to make this but my game crashes D: if I can do any progress, I'll pm you

[fishfinger]

Hey man , it's good idea but stop doing this before the method doesn't working well .

In fact , when i test it i used custom model take from games ( very strange mesh i have to fix , not the bunny one )

and i didn't test with gta models

 

here the problem .

I try first to fix the mesh of the black outline (for the hooker bfrypro i think ), so i copy the original and i work the verticles one by one .

like this :

go in vertex mode

 

select double verticles with square selection

 

and collapse them

 

the result

 

aplly the same method for all

 

after a quickly fix for the normal invers and push attach to the original dff unmodified , its look like this in game :

as you can see , the black outline work perfectly because they are a single mesh ( single verticles ) so the push method didn't f*ck them

but the other effect of the method unsmooth the original dff and you can see it a lot when they are light on it .

 

let see what happen from the begining :

i import the original dff and by default the skin ( in modifier list ) is select :

they are not smooth

but when i select the editable mesh and click yes it become like this :

alright , that what i want

now the big problem is if i change one verticles or add push on the skin or other modification , the smooth is lost

and i don't know why

 

So you can fix it by aplly the collapsing method i used for the black outline on it but it doesn't seem right to me

there must be a way to modify the dff without lost the smoothing effect but i don't know how

Anyone ?

 

(ps : i presume yours modified models do the same thing with the smooth

tell me if they don't , it would be encouraging )

 

sorry for my english

[FireproofFlare]

Hey man , it's good idea but stop doing this before the method doesn't working well .

In fact , when i test it i used custom model take from games ( very strange mesh i have to fix , not the bunny one )

and i didn't test with gta models

 

[...]

 

So you can fix it by aplly the collapsing method i used for the black outline on it but it doesn't seem right to me

there must be a way to modify the dff without lost the smoothing effect but i don't know how

Anyone ?

 

(ps : i presume yours modified models do the same thing with the smooth

tell me if they don't , it would be encouraging )

 

sorry for my english

So... As we want a quality mod, let's restart!

 

Also, I think you cound use tesselation, but it cound crash Sa (poly limit =/)

[coin-god]

What? Do not use tesselation. Do what he said, weld the vertices thats good enough.

[FireproofFlare]

What? Do not use tesselation. Do what he said, weld the vertices thats good enough.

Yeah, I'm doing this now

 

I just said him to use tesselation if he would keep the smoothing effect

[fishfinger]

The result with the collapsing method apply to all mesh :

 

 

as you can see , that's better , the smooth work night and day , but it still bug ( rinnig mess ) and it's freaking long to do .

I think the whole method have to be revisited .

 

Just need to understand how the gta.dff mesh works and why it's unsmooth when modification .

 

 

 

[fishfinger]

In my opinion , you should give up the idea of converting all peds with this method .

 

Last screenshots i post are the best result that I managed to get and there still not perfect and especially , it take a lot of time for just one model .

 

And i think ther is a big risk that gta will crash with all dff double in size .

 

Maybe if we find a way to convert them without having to rework all mesh ( like i said upper ), it would be interesting to give it a shot .

( and even make a script for 3dmax to accelerate the work )

For the moment , i'm a noob in 3dmax and modelling and i don't understand all part of modelling mesh and gta material so i can't say if it's possible or not to make it simple .

 

An other thing is disturb me is the whole idea to convert ped of gta san .

I think the result will be not that great with the non-pixelshader environement .

Maybe a smaller and a more cartoon map ( and cartoonest character like someone said ) will be more appropriate and interesting .

 

In conclusion I would say at this time it's a lot of work for an average result and it could not work well (crash) .

 

Sorry for you and my english .

[Rokas.]

I wish someone did this outline thing for whole SA

[FireproofFlare]

I wish someone did this outline thing for whole SA

Is that a plugin? Only way to do it in whole SA (too hard to convert all models )