I had tested this model for one of the movies in my project. I had doubts about the high heels, but those actually don't look bad at all in-game: the actual problem was that the halo\hair slapped about like sails, not unlike the wings of the flying mutant in SS1. IIRC, one part of it was left untextured (hands?).

I tried that on shodan.bin but it just loaded up as a textureless solid green lady.

the model needs to be under MESH, and its textures under MESH\TXT16, then they should get loaded as long as they are in a format the engine supports.

it should probably be in Engineering then.

I don't mean to necro this topic, but I'm having trouble installing this mod. Does anyone know where to put the textures so that they will be applied to the model, and was any version of this ever rigged?

This might interest you: How to make new biped Meshes for Dark Engine Games

BUT, as long as it has the correct animations none of that applies, well not to me most of the time.

BUT, system shock 2 does use joints and such, not like that you would find in half life but still, it uses skeletal animation.

i need to properly animate it and rename the bones, that will take a while.

i just added facial animation

Just so you know i use skeletal animation not vertex

I don't think I replaced the TGA with one which worked as I couldn't get PSP to save into the correct format, so it was just a model replacement, iirc.

So far as I am aware, the model I posted works (ie is animated fine and didn't show any artifacts in my testing) except for the tga texture on the 'head fan' which I had to replace with a generic tga I knew worked, from Ponterbee. Which resulted in Shodan wandering around fine, just advertising a bar or something- perhaps a new revenue making idea for EA if they ever get around to making SS3?

As far as I know, there isn't a working in-game version, just source files for 3D Studio Max.  I don't think we ever got her into the game properly.

It was never fully finished.

Well that sucks. I was just looking at the upgraded toilet model he did for HDTP, and was struck by how similar it is to the SS2 model. I was hoping to ask him if he'd be willing to make an SS2 version.

Ah well.

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Yeah, tga works. For some reason the alpha channel wasn't sticking when I saved it, so it was always saving as 24 bit. Copied a tga from one of Christine's fms over it and it worked fine- though it was a little odd to see shodan advertising a bar.

As it turned out that last version model only had two bad points, both where the frill dropped below the neck joint planes. Shifted the two points to just above and it seems to be working aok.

Archive attached (note: the bin/cal are called "shodand" at the moment as I turned them into rev2 meshes in case that was what was causing the problem).

Whatever happened to Ajare? He still doing any SS2 modelling?

Do TGAs work with meshes? The model will compile fine and work fine, so long as it doesn't include the tga texture (reassigning to any other texture format works fine).

Yeah, well the main problem was I had no idea what I was doing like so often.
Anyway, I haven't got 3dsmax installed atm but I hope this is the latest model without the changes I did to poor Shoddys face.

I've had a look and it seems to be set up ok now. One or two motion problem are evident- she occasionally looks like she has broken her arm (not too badly though) and the firing animation causes her to do a rather weird sort of... thigh/pelvic thrust. Both may actually be problems with the motion files rather than the model. And you can see straight through her mouth so it probably needs sealing. Since the downloaded model was not textured I stuck one on at random to check whether I could replicate any problems, but couldn't, though I didn't play around with the UV or anything.

If someone (Kolya, NV) has the textured model lying around somewhere it may be worth copying the joint planes from the attached over that model and see if it then works OK, or send it to me if you prefer.

Edit: The hip rotation is a motion issue, not a model one. At least one of the ranged attack motions has a weird hip rotation set towards its end. Also, apparently Shodan should not be animated as a standard human, but as Something Else as her motions do not detect as being humanoid...

I'm pretty sure the model should use the provided textures. Of course it's been a while.

Lateron Zygoptera did the rigging for Dark but the animation was never finished.

I can't remember trying to animate it. Are you sure it was me? I may have supplied the joint planes but I would have thought I would remembered it not working.

I'll have a look at it over the weekend anyway, as it is meant to rain most of today and tomorrow so I ought to have some spare time.

Welcome back to your posting-ban, Liam. Now that you have the time, try reading the thread again.
With a bit of luck you may figure out why this model doesn't work in your game and why I keep telling you to read first.

That's right, it wasn't finished. Ajare dropped out of the project and I am lacking 3D modelling skills to finish it. Also it was never animated IIRC.