DeleD Community Edition

[harper]

Hello folks using DeleD !

After playing one of the good old MMO's i retired from virtuality to put some ideas into an illustrated form. So i looked out for some new software to create a world, where i can show, what i am missing in those MMO's.
From the start: I don't wanted to create my own MMO by myself. That's impossible. It's absolute too much work for a soloist. Anyone who ist even thinking about that - forget it!
Meanwhile, after a year of thinking, playing around, testing software, sketching houses, plans, characters, a background story and quests, calculating loot & level, designing interfaces, and lots of work ahead, i think it's time to share my ideas with you. What i want to create in the next month, is a merely interactive walk-through-my-ideas. Just to show, in the best case, some programmers/producers, what maybe done in an upcoming MMo.

First, on the "human" side, there is a small city:


The Humans built a nice little, but fortified town, called Meynheim.
Here is a picture of a market-day.


People in Meynheim are working and trading people. Here you see some shops (right)
and the school and the university (left) where to learn the "abilities".


Left side the "hotel", in the middle the tavern, in the background you see the barracks of the city-guard, in the right stands the guild-hall.


Looking through ancient arcs towards the "tower of the mages". On the right
you see the "hospital" - where you start after dying ingame.


Of coure there is an "outside" the town. Here is a forest growing,
and in the distance you see a ruin, wich is at night a frightening place.


What makes a city bring to life, is much work to do.
OK, these fish are fresh, but not alive.


"inhouse" scenes are much easyer - and better in quality.
Outside i use "Feeworld 2.0" for arranging meshes in the terrain,
with not so good lighting techniques. I hope, DeleD will do this one day better.


At last i show a verry little choice of 3D-artwork, i have done yet until today
to bring my ideas for future-MMO's to visible state.


Millions of polygons have
still to been made, before my vision become visuable. But working with DeleD makes "fun at work". What better can you say about a piece of software.
If someone is interested in some of my models, please tell it to me. I will give it for free !

[Jeroen]

This looks terrific!!!

I definately like the atmosphere you put in this world. I have to ask: which models where made with DeleD? Also, can we use some of your pictures for our gallery (of course, only the stuff that has been made with DeleD)???

Keep up the good work - this is really good stuff!
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[harper]

ALL of the 3D-Models are made with DeleD, of course ! And if you find something interesting, i will send you higher detailed pictures of any objects.

[chronozphere]

This is looking totally awesome. It really shows your modelling skills and the capabilities of DeleD.

You even made a man and a woman. I think you're the first to make human models with DeleD.

Keep it up. Would like to see more!

[Jeroen]

I'd definately like to see all of this in more detail. But at least the Tower of Mages, the university, the pottery and the old man. Excellent work that really stands out, I think.

I'm amazed by the texturing. I know DeleD's current UV mapping capabilities lack features but these example here are simply amazing. Or did you use another program for texturing (which is totally understandable)?
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[MeinenM]

Simply astounding artwork! You have made these scenes really well. This really shows what you can do with DeleD and lots of time .

[granada]

Like i allways say, you can do what you like with DeLeD .Very nice work.

Dave
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[Starnick]

Very cool. Is all of this in freeworld or do you have an game engine setup, etc?

[harper]

No, i have looked around for a suitable game engine, but found no one easy enough for me. So i put all objects im my terrain-modelling software called Freeworld 2.0. It's buggy and lo longer supported by its creator, but its what i needed. It has a poor litte lighting, and does only a kind of pseudo-lighting on the meshes.
On the other hand Freeworld is able to export the complete world to ogre. It would be cool, if anyone has a precompiled ogre, where i can load my world in to navigate a bit around - or something similar.

[Starnick]

[paul_nicholls]

Hi harper,
I love your models and artwork...great job!

cheers,
Paul
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Hi ho...hi ho...it's off 3d modeling I go...

[trucker2000]

[harper]

Okey, i give it (Blink 3D) a try - but 400 bucks for a private, non-profit-project, is a lot. Anyone more tipps of those ?
And - Thanx alot for all your positive response, DeleD-Users. That's what a lonesome developer needs !

And Jeroen asks: I'm amazed by the texturing. I know DeleD's current UV mapping capabilities lack features but these example here are simply amazing. Shocked Or did you use another program for texturing (which is totally understandable)?

No ? What is wrong with Deled's texturing tool? The "professor" is a very-low-polygon char. Here are details:

with blended poly's:

Ok, ther's a big difference between the face and the modelled hair and beard, but ist good enough for the story.

[Jeroen]

Well, I'm amazed by the results of your work. Your model, with the limited number of polygons it contains, just looks terrific. I just don't see textured characters made entirely in DeleD that much because most people use DeleD for level-editing. So, excellent job there Harper!

Did you try rigging this character so you can put it in different poses? I guess you will need weighted vertices for that to work properly if your model is in one piece. But if you give it separate arms & legs, this could work.

Btw, I'd love to put that character in our gallery. Is that alright with you?
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[chronozphere]

The man looks great.

Did you make the texture yourself? Can you show it to us and tell us a little something about how you made it? There isn't much information about making textures like these and I'd love to learn how to make them.