Reversing Spellborn

Hey all,

 

Seeing the naked character in hawksmouth makes me want to explain something about the skeletal meshes.

 

A mesh is a 3D created system build up out of planes connected between 3 points in the 3D space.

each plane is linked to a triangle part of a picture called texture which in turn shows us the shape in texture colours on screen.

Unreal works only with the so called Triangulated meshes.

 

There are static mesh shapes like for example houses, trees and rocks which are placed into the map and it's just for the visual gameplay.

 

All the moving things like the playable characters, Non Playable Characters (NPC's), monsters are based on skeletal meshes.

A skeletal mesh is a skeleton which in turn is linked to the mesh shape.

for each skeleton animations can be created which can be triggered during gameplay or just for fun in the editor.

each animation sequence can have notifys which can activate several actions like playing a sound, show an emitter (explosion, fire etc), trigger a unreal script etc.

 

I noticed from the package data that there are a lot of notify actions available, for me the sounds are currently things I should be able to rewrite into a normal UT2004 format,

but the rest of the notifys still need work.

 

With the above text in mind linking back to the naked character, it is the basic skeletal mesh of the character, it needs the extra data to get dressed with armour by linking the

armour pieces to the right bones in the skeleton. Which armour is selected depends on the way the user created it during character creation,

or by changing it from the weapon and armour selection screen which was linked to the inventory.

 

One thing I did use was a "bug" with an overflowing mailbox, even though it showed as full, items you would receive could still be retreived on a later moment, by deleting older mail items.

It was giving some extra inventory space and sometimes fun to see what would come up from the mail after a while of not playing that character for a while.

 

What I can do is for example create a bone list for one of the playable characters, it can give you guys an idea how it's build up.

 

Also good to know is the fact that the armour textures are made in the colours in the green and orange, which are linked to a colour selection from the character screen or elsewhere ingame

by going to the forge. (Ciara Always liked changing colours)

 

this should be it for the moment, have to do some more work in the garden

 

Greetings Jan-Willem.