I made a thing! [Archive]

Jibartik

07-05-2020, 01:44 AM

I've been learning how to import/export stuff from EQ into 3D programs and stuff (thanks to a bunch of folks online and folks that made this server!)

After months of reading, failing, importing, downloading, watching tutorials, crying, I finally made my first lit scene lol its so bad but It's a milestone for me so I wanted to share. I didnt even figure out how to like, render it, I GIVE UP! this program is hard. This is just a screennshot from the viewport, but I am still proud and I wanted to share. :o

https://i.imgur.com/Oa1wCbj.png

I will try to post more and we can see if I get worse at this or better! ha!

tsuchang

07-05-2020, 01:58 AM

It's admirable that you persevered. I bet you leveled up.

Jibartik

07-05-2020, 05:08 AM

I just dinged actually check it out!

https://imgur.com/6Kdwqs5

:D

dragoonJ

07-05-2020, 12:04 PM

Really neat!

LoFi Guy

07-05-2020, 01:24 PM

Thanks for sharing !

Jibartik

07-05-2020, 02:44 PM

What if we found a hole and delved deeply to find Rahoteps treasures..

https://i.imgur.com/doKeLYD.gifv

Jibartik

07-05-2020, 05:21 PM

Well, I couldn't resist I wanted to climb down into Rahotep's Aqueducts.

So I threw some filters onto the textures and threw in some lighting to see if I could ha!

exploring: https://imgur.com/t2wXhdo

I WANA FIND HIS TREASURES!

Hmm.. aqueducts under the oasis, I wonder what he was trying to do...

https://i.imgur.com/pUBeznB.gif

https://i.imgur.com/xp4Z0R7.png

Knuckle

07-05-2020, 11:56 PM

Jibartik

07-06-2020, 03:46 AM

That must be where I have spent the last 3 days farming, entrance to Neriak in foreign quarter I take it?

Yes! :)

I tried to follow the lighting tutorials a little bit more strictly this time, I had an idea for a new class:

The Vampire Hunter

Part Necro, part Rogue, all undead DPS :cool:

https://i.imgur.com/sMi21wu.png

Argh

07-06-2020, 01:14 PM

Looks cool

Xulia

07-06-2020, 01:17 PM

That's some awesome work!! Do you have a gallery where we could follow your work and progression?

Jibartik

07-06-2020, 02:41 PM

That's some awesome work!! Do you have a gallery where we could follow your work and progression?

I guess we'll have to start right here! :o

Ok I spent the morning thinking what is my lore for this vampire hunter, half barbarian??

A lot of you know I love talking about the timeline, so imagine this takes place many hundreds of years after velious, but before we go to luclin, and Ill explain that timeline in a post down the road :cool: but for now:

...Imagine, that Norrath has been sitting idle for hundreds of years, after the discovery of kunark and velious...

This story begins In Halas.

Seeing their friends and family returning home from adventuring in the new lands of Kunark and Velious, dawning the spectacular loot and treasures discovered on those islands to the south, the barbarians of Halas set sail North, to find new lands of their own to conquer.

https://i.imgur.com/R73GhGU.png

Many brave barbarians set sail and many were never heard from again, those are known as the lost ones, souls that traveled to the sea but were never seen again. The oceans to the north west are considered impassble by some and nary a soul is brave enough to travel through those waters any longer.

To the east the sailing barbarians managed to find what they believed to be a new continent, one wrought with vampires. From the tall masts of their well built ships the barbarian pirates saw a castle reaching to the sky from a dark forest below it, teeming with the undead. They layed a plan to seige the castle and take the island for their own.

To purge this new land of this vile menace, and using their skills as sailors, they built a small floating city to establish their foothold on this new continent. (what will become the Half-Bararian's Starting City, generations later) ruled by the Barbarian pirates.

It wasn't long that the barbarians realized that they were not in a new part of the world (I mean they are a little wise but not that intelligent after all) but to save face they act as though that mistake was never made. They are a proud race of sailors, pirates, and roughnecks and after generations they've come to love doing one thing: Killing vampires.

For 100 years the barbarian pirates layed siege to the vampire castle, and with the help of the elve's finally took control and pushed mayongs acolytes deep into the dungeons of the castle, where they locked them in behind impenetrable iron doors.

Some say you can hear the scratching of their claws through the iron if you put your ear to it, but not many are brave enough to get so close. Will they rise from their cavernous tomb one day? :confused:

The pirate King of Barbaria (working title lol) finally took control of castle Mistmoore and filled it with his militia hoping to bring a new age of peace and harmony to the area. But norrath is a harsh place, and we will see that that is not so easy.

The barbarian pirates fought so long and so hard against the vampires that they began to change. Tunare took notice of them from her distant realm and blessed them with an inner flame that gave them strength against the undead, and allowed the pirate king to gain control for the castle.

When Tunare blessed these warriors they became one with her spirit and began to give birth to a new race: the Half Barbarian. Smaller in size than their parents, but larger than an elf, almost human. Not as sturdy as a barbarian, but with a strength inside of them that gives them immense power.

But something was wrong with this new race however, at a young age they became hostile and many would suffer from unknown disease and sickness. :(

What was unknown to both Tunare, and the barbarian warriors was that Mayongs acolytes learned of this disgusting act by Tunare and with a dark ritual imbued themselves into the soul of this new race, giving them some vampiric tendencies of their own and causing them to be toxic to much of the life that surrounds them.

The half barbarian is not just blessed with the spirit of Tunare, but also cursed with the tortured soul of a vampire. Because of this "toxic touch" they live a very painful solitary existence. They are hated by the living, and feared by the undead. Cursed to walk alone.

The pirate king became enraged at the fear the people of Norrath began to have of their cursed children, and so he shut the gates to Mistmoore castle and became KOS to anyone who entered. There it is rumored that his vampiric tendencies have driven him to madness and it's only a matter of time before he opens the iron gates and unleashes the horde upon the innocent once more.

The line of Half-Barbarians that worshiped Tunare left the land altogether, back to the sea where they felt safe and were free from contact with other norrathians and cannot spread their plague. They started a small floating village called floaty vampire hunter island (working title lol), north of the coast beyond the woods of lesser fay. This is your starting city where you begin the game as a Half Barbarian. They are honor bound to slay their vampiric ancestors and have sworn to rid the land of them once and for all.

This new class The Vampire Hunter, a half barbarian is played a lot like a rogue, their DPS is not as strong unless fighting undead but they do have some more abilities to solo too.

Think of them as a DPS version of a shadowknight, without lifetaps. Instead they focus on Poison and Disease damage and Undead DPS with some unique extinguish undead spell lines. Aand maybe some undead charming! They cant tank and like to stand outside of combat and use their crossbow's! :cool:

Gearing:

They have a unique new weapon, the 1h crossbow, it can be equipped in the range slot, primary and secondary, allowing them to duel wield with them. Or to duel wield 1h-slashing weapons for melee and the crossbow for some clutch range shots.

They cannot use piercing weapons because it reminds them of their vampiric teeth lol so there's that..

Half Barbarians cannot wear plate armor, and only some chain, they are designed to be rogues that stay about 15 feet away from combat. However they do like 1h slashers when the halways of the castle get tight!

Armor: Leather (special case plate BP), unique (leather) cowl.

The vampire hunter needs to be mobile so they only wear leather armor, however they can wear most plate BP's:

Because the half-barbarians are half vampire in a way, they are weak to the heart. Vampire Hunteres often chose to wear one of many, plate chestplates that are available for them to wear to protect their most vital organ. So you will often see them dressed with a plate chestplate, but leather everything else. Which is a neat little unique trait I think.

Oh and the obvious, to avoid the sun, they wear that sweet leather HAT! Like their barbarian ancesters, they too get a unique leather cowling when they wear leather in their head slot inventory :) That cool sun shade duster hat!

https://i.imgur.com/Qodp8kV.png

Oh and why not, when you wear LEATHER SHOULDERS you get that sweet collar, but not if you wear any other type of shoulders, only leather! :)

So that's pretty much it! The Vampire Hunter - Half Barbarian

Oh how about some other races that can be Vampire Hunters:

Dark elves - Like I teased, vampires are a problem for darkelves during this age, so they can be vampire hunters too!
Trolls - in this age trolls are trying out some new things, like stoping this vampiric invasion!
Woodelfs - high elfs think they are already vampire hunters, they're pretentious paladins, but woodelfs have to go about it the rough and dirty barbarian way.
Euridites - they are smar they can do anything!
humans - adaptive, of course! Gnomes! - hell yea!
Gnolls - oh boy (yeah new race/class coming soon)

Did I miss anything?

VAMPIRE HUNTER!

Tunabros

07-06-2020, 06:25 PM

holy crap this looks cool as

Jibartik

07-06-2020, 07:33 PM

holy crap this looks cool as

Thanks brew :o

I had so much fun writing out that lore lol

Jibartik

07-09-2020, 03:44 AM

https://i.imgur.com/ls10X6H.gif

Getting this guy working was the result of like 6 hours of work, and that 6 hours of work was me banging on ONE number... until someone said "you have to edit it here" and pointed like 2 inches from the area where I kept trying to edit that number.

So as simple and crappy as this looks right now it was a insurmountable amount of work for my lizard brain.

VAMPIRE HUNTER DISCO!

Edit: oh yeah I gave everquest characters fingers :o

Jimjam

07-09-2020, 05:03 AM

Amazing!

Please add a human wizard in a pointy hat. The one thing eq is missing.

Jibartik

07-09-2020, 11:52 AM

Amazing!

Please add a human wizard in a pointy hat. The one thing eq is missing.

I am diverting all my attention to this as soon as the workday is done. :p

Jibartik

07-10-2020, 02:46 AM

Amazing!

Please add a human wizard in a pointy hat. The one thing eq is missing.

https://i.imgur.com/oi0KSaR.gif

Jibartik

07-10-2020, 03:18 AM

Or was this more like what you were after https://i.imgur.com/rjVHqql.mp4 click for mustache soundtrack.

https://i.imgur.com/qnBv13Z.gif

Dural_Levant

07-10-2020, 10:05 AM

Or was this more like what you were after https://i.imgur.com/rjVHqql.mp4 click for mustache soundtrack.

https://i.imgur.com/qnBv13Z.gif

Can you give him a cool staff with glowing bits?

Zukan

07-10-2020, 12:39 PM

Wow Jibartik this is some cool stuff! I've been wanting to do something like this. What are you running in? Unity? Unreal?

Jibartik

07-10-2020, 12:57 PM

Can you give him a cool staff with glowing bits?

yeah he needs a good gnarled wizard staff, and a beard! :p

https://i.imgur.com/GKtBgqn.png

Wow Jibartik this is some cool stuff! I've been wanting to do something like this. What are you running in? Unity? Unreal?

Thanks! Im using Unreal! I tried both but I like the way unreal works it feels a bit idk I just like it.

There is a project in Unity called lanternEQ they are smarter than me and exporting like all the animations and stuff. Im using an older one and I have trouble with it cus its very confusing. There is another guy named Gnawl doing eVeRquest (a VR) version, and its awesome and he has a forum account with us but doesn't post here much hehe :o But his little corner is looking so cool!

If you search for lantern EQ you should be able to get a lot of info on extracting EQ models and stuff, personally I think it's about to become a new popular hobby :o lantern really kind of opened the floodgates with some of the tools they pushed last year.

There's a big EqEMU community, but it ahs a steep learning curve and I think with these new exports and tools and knowledge, eq modding is becoming way more accessible!

Lantern is using Unity though, if you're trying to decide what you want to learn. Sometimes I think I should do Unity because I fully expect there to be an opensource sandbox toolset, nav, ai, and combat system they publish in unity for people to go hog wild with eventually.

Jibartik

07-10-2020, 02:26 PM

I just wanted to post awesome images that inspire me to try to make new everquest art because I bet you all agree it'd be amazing to play in these worlds :)

https://i.imgur.com/zqzR0SL.png

https://i.imgur.com/RRA8gQs.png

https://i.imgur.com/j9XJBza.png

https://i.imgur.com/8SofFjO.png

Jimjam

07-10-2020, 04:15 PM

Or was this more like what you were after https://i.imgur.com/rjVHqql.mp4 click for mustache soundtrack.

https://i.imgur.com/qnBv13Z.gif

For the first time someone has completed Everquest.

Jibartik

07-10-2020, 04:22 PM

For the first time someone has completed Everquest.

You wanna know what will make you sad? this almost made it into the initial release.

Here's the unused original polys:

https://i.imgur.com/dgyAmbU.png

Jimjam

07-10-2020, 04:40 PM

That is a thing of beauty. Just needs the brim, as you added... and maybe some polygons on the chin for a beard!

Zukan

07-27-2020, 01:34 AM

Jibartik you inspired me to fiddle with things again. I started cleaning up the human character model. animated gif ->https://i.imgur.com/xL5k6c1.mp4

Jibartik

07-27-2020, 02:46 AM

Zukan

07-27-2020, 02:46 PM

HEEy niice!!! I love the hair, have you ever tried making like, hair with an alpha channel? (https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/p5/wxdsmet89a7u.jpg) that might be fun to add to this! looks awesome!

I've made attempts to do hair cards in the past but it's a pain. I just want to have fun with this project so who knows if I'll try it on this dude or not.

Jimjam

07-27-2020, 02:48 PM

Great work, Zukan!

Jib, I'm gonna start referring to my receding hairline and bald spot as my hair's alpha channel. Sounds bad ass! Never stop your artistic endeavours!

strongNpretty

07-27-2020, 03:02 PM

Maybe the man himself could provide some inspiration!

https://www.keithparkinson.com/artwork/

Rip K.P

Jibartik

07-27-2020, 03:48 PM

https://i.imgur.com/cjLEiYp.gif

also yeah, big RIP :(

Jibartik

07-27-2020, 04:29 PM

whoah check this thing out wtf

https://youtu.be/S2_-kDwQzHw

C5BAMF

07-27-2020, 05:56 PM

This thread is amazing. Jibartik I'm loving what you're doing! Zukan I really like that human model too.

SyanideGas

07-28-2020, 03:32 AM

Or was this more like what you were after https://i.imgur.com/rjVHqql.mp4 click for mustache soundtrack.

https://i.imgur.com/qnBv13Z.gif

This is cool af man

Lurgort/Sseri

07-28-2020, 06:00 AM

Jibartik

07-28-2020, 01:18 PM

First: Awesome work. Keep it up!

Second: If you're taking bold requests...

How about a Female Iksar Necro, skullcap on head, wearing Froglok Bonecaster Robe, 1H Staff of the Dreaded Gaze and Ry'Gorr Oracle Shield equipped doing an actual 'raise the dead' animation of a Sarnak or Iksar skeleton?

you itched all the right scratches with all that dread, bone, dead, & skeleton talk :D I will have to see if I can obtain all that geo :cool:

Lurgort/Sseri

07-28-2020, 02:11 PM

you itched all the right scratches with all that dread, bone, dead, & skeleton talk :D I will have to see if I can obtain all that geo :cool:

Fantastic, looking forward to it!

Zukan

07-28-2020, 03:36 PM

https://i.imgur.com/Yee4Ps2.png
https://i.imgur.com/rl8VElI.png
https://i.imgur.com/j0uKECt.png

Jibartik

07-28-2020, 06:33 PM

Nice! This retains a lot of the classic rough around the edges feels without softening them too much, this is more like what we should have seen with luclin! :o

Bones

07-29-2020, 04:28 AM

an actual 'raise the dead' animation of a Sarnak or Iksar skeleton?

this would be amazing, a skeleton actually crawling out of the ground from a necro pet summon cast.

nilzark

07-29-2020, 08:24 AM

Is this the beginning of Everquest the Next Generation?

entruil

07-29-2020, 04:50 PM

Fantastic! Is the trailer out? I would definitely watch this movie. Sky isn't even the limit.

Jibartik

07-29-2020, 07:22 PM

Is this the beginning of Everquest the Next Generation?

Not gonna lie it made it to my list. :o

Zukan

08-03-2020, 08:34 AM

https://i.imgur.com/SLofY2L.png
https://i.imgur.com/8zWMpML.png
https://i.imgur.com/99YOcOa.png

Progress updates.

Jimjam

08-03-2020, 12:12 PM

David Hasselhoff vibes.

Zukan

08-03-2020, 04:27 PM

David Hasselhoff vibes.

For me it was Patrick Swayze Dirty Dancing vibes but I can see The Hoff too. :)

Jibartik

08-03-2020, 05:37 PM

Loving some of the edges you're leaving in the neck, shoulder area ;)

Edit: god damn I hate the way the wink emoji looks on these forums lol yeesh

Pint

08-03-2020, 07:09 PM

Jibartik

08-03-2020, 07:32 PM

Yep! Dragonlance also does it for me as well. But the wheel of time covers are perfection.

I probably just got tired of posting images to imgur :p

https://i.imgur.com/7BRxTzzg.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/b2vPQJP.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Rv2EoYN.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/3DpAQOI.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/0574MBZ.jpg

Nuggie

08-04-2020, 11:07 PM

EQ in unreal would be amazing. I wish you luck.

Zukan

08-06-2020, 03:29 AM

EQ in unreal would be amazing. I wish you luck.

You don't have to wonder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdhWV1O6aSE&t=9s

nilzark

08-06-2020, 09:11 AM

You don't have to wonder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdhWV1O6aSE&t=9s

Yes, please! When will this be ready for prime time?

Nuggie

08-11-2020, 11:17 AM

You don't have to wonder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdhWV1O6aSE&t=9s

Blessings on this man. Or woman. Or whatever he wants to identify as. Don't SJW me bro, or sis, or whatever you identify as.

Zukan

08-19-2020, 01:29 AM

https://imgur.com/a/R0nCjAs

tried to align the UV's so the original textures would feasably work. Not sure if trash or not.

Jibartik

08-19-2020, 01:49 AM

Ooo Looking nice! Lol zukan doing all the work. I been too busy playing Jibartik LOL stupid evercrack

Naerron

09-09-2020, 02:00 PM

Jibartik this stuff is awesome and put me on the right path do some of my own custom graphics for my client. Also in the spirit of the thread, thought i'd upload some of my own EQ art i've made.

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Jibartik

09-09-2020, 04:11 PM

HAH! Whast the name of that thing from Dr Seusss?

The slow lorie or something lol thats not it but i know it has a name!

Naerron

09-09-2020, 10:53 PM

lorax =)

Runaf

09-13-2020, 01:18 PM

This is all dope as hell Jibartik, can't wait to see more

Zukan

09-19-2020, 01:34 AM

Awesome work Naerron, thanks for sharing! I like the ToV Riot Circle thing :)

Jibartik

09-20-2020, 05:30 PM

https://i.imgur.com/zCYPoY8.jpg

This area is getting clean! Lots more work to do lol but I wanted to give a little update.

On the other side of the forest of nektulos will be the future sight of a newfound land.

With a waterfall! :p

Jibartik

09-20-2020, 05:48 PM

This is kind of fun, I had to do a little custom area for a couple reasons, could be a secret to discover one day :o

https://i.imgur.com/ix7k9Wc.jpg

1. The coastline of the oasis did not line up with the rockline of south ro, (you can see that illustrated with the pink line)
2. The edge of the water has to hit something and the map implies that there may be beach all the way to the swamp.
3. The map indicates the swamp will fade into the water, I will have to do that when I get to the swamp, merging soro/swamp/beech as it mucks up to the water. (The "concept art" is in blue lol).

Zukan

09-24-2020, 01:59 AM

I don't know why it won't let me embed my images I'm posting on imgur :( So here's a url and an attachment:

https://i.imgur.com/CwqdQa5.mp4

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Jibartik

09-24-2020, 03:45 PM

Haha! the future is NOW! Thats amazing!

imgur wont convert a .gifv to .gif if its juuust to big

Zukan

09-24-2020, 06:20 PM

Jibartik your work on just that one desert area is stressing me out. So much work. It's lookin good so far. The transition into the swamp seems like it'll be tricky since you probably can't just paint a nice gradient from sand to grass to mud... at least not easily I'd imagine.

Also: I haven't been able to embed images from imgur onto here. Maybe it's just size realated too. But oh well I'll just attache shit now.

Nuggie

09-25-2020, 04:51 PM

The trolls arms look like Popeye's arms.

nayan

09-29-2020, 01:38 AM

Just want to add my interest here, I am a quite experienced VR programmer in Unity, if someone can do models, animation etc I can do a lot of VR gameplay/interaction.

Shac

10-02-2020, 10:27 AM

Haha! the future is NOW! Thats amazing!

imgur wont convert a .gifv to .gif if its juuust to big

Just change .mp4 to .gif in the url and post...? or Can you record it and shrink it in some way?

https://i.imgur.com/CwqdQa5.gif

Zukan

10-18-2020, 04:48 PM

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Jibartik

12-22-2020, 08:52 PM

Get off my camp, whipper snapper!

https://i.imgur.com/Ogd88Y8.png

Knuckle

12-23-2020, 09:51 AM

Zukan

02-02-2021, 12:55 AM

https://i.imgur.com/ayxDuEe.gif

haven't posted in a while but still been fiddling with things.

Jibartik

02-02-2021, 03:43 AM

Zukan the hero! I have been starting to noodle with a thing that I put down a while back too! ribbit!

Zukan

02-02-2021, 01:07 PM

Zukan the hero! I have been starting to noodle with a thing that I put down a while back too! ribbit!

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Jimjam

02-02-2021, 03:54 PM

Thanks for continuing to show your things.

Zephys

02-08-2021, 08:15 AM

Keep at it, man. I recently got a hold of all the everquest tabletop rules for dnd 3.5 and they do some interesting things (and add new zones!) in some of those. Not quite canon but they might be worth looking through. Forum post about it here: https://www.firesofheaven.org/threads/everquest-rpg-tabletop-all-pdf-download-links.12445/

All in all it'd probably add to the headache, not to mention the canon argument, but extra materials never hurt.