28 Months Later August 2008 Update

[Jey]

We have had a busy couple of months at Death by Design. We have made some great progress with the mod, some of which I will show you today. We have had some great new talent join the team in all areas of development.

With Crysis Warhead coming soon, i think its only fair that I tell you all now, the first public build of 28 Months Later will be on Warhead. We are doing this largely for the new features and engine stability, this should provide you with a much smoother experience, plus open the mod up to people with not such powerfull PCs.

So here are some examples of the work that has been done these past two months.

ART

Forrest Stephan:

Forrest (our lead 3D artist) has been working on buildings for our Dordogne levels.

Vintovka:

Our lead texture artist decided to spend some time learning to model.
I am sure you will agree with me that he has done a great job off this AN94

Dgoek:

One of our best talents, you wouldn't believe me if i told you how long it took him to make these.

Ramza:

Here is some work from one of our newest members .
He has been working very hard for us, I will have lots to show from him in the next update.

M-562 and Kingpin:

M-562 has really started coming into his own in modelling. He did a great job on this colt 45.
It gives me great pleasure to welcome Kingpin to the team as a dedicated texture artist,
as you can see from this colt he is great at what he does.

St.Sabath:

Last but not least one of our longer lasting members has been churning out buildings for the Paris map.
I will be showing off those when all the textures are complete.

ANIMATION

Mephisto and IchII3D:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/tpiv-nqFGRg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/tpiv-nqFGRg</a>
IchII3D has been working in a motion capture studio,
here you can see him doing some initial Mo-Cap trials

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ric-w0_wYBs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Ric-w0_wYBs</a>
IchII3d and Dendy have been cleaning up the Mo-Cap data and importing it into 3D Studio max

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/qHtxJ77Ixpw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/qHtxJ77Ixpw</a>
Mephisto test imports the data into Sandbox.

TUTORIALS

Part 1 - Creating a non-destructible object

<a href="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1215250&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1215250&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA</a>
Forrest will take you through modelling buildings for use in CryEngine2 using 3ds Max

Part 2 - Texturing the non-destructible object

<a href="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1215728&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1215728&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA</a>
Forrest demonstates how to cost effectively texture your buildings for CryEngine2

Full body Animation Export

<a href="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1431695&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1431695&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA</a>
Mephisto takes you through the basics of animating a biped in 3ds Max for use in CryEngine2

Well thats it from this update, I look forward to showing you more next time.

Please note we are still recruiting in all areas except for level design. So if your interested in helping out, please register on our forums and shoot me a pm - 28 Months Later - Index

[JoeyBlack]

Amazing
Loved the farmhouse and jeep. And UMP is a nice addition
Will the train be driveable?

[Hawiio]

is it a game or a mod to a game?

[St.Sabath]

is it a game or a mod to a game?

....i like what he said...

[Eclipse.UK]

Awesome work guys! Im amazed that you even went to the length of motion capture, truely shows your dedication and amount of work your putting into it! I truely am amazed to learn you have a motion capture stuido/equipment!

Never knew that!

Cant wait guys, this is gonna be real top quality!

[JoeyBlack]

is it a game or a mod to a game?

....i like what he said...

I guess it's possible to come to this site and post 13 messages without knowing what this site is for
But, to be serios, it's a mod to a game called crysis, dont really know how you didnt get it.

[Commander]

WOW
You guys are really amazing!
I thought you would do the mod in a different way!
But after seeing all this hard work and texturing,etc...
I think the Mod is really going to be one of the best if not the Best

[BRUTAL BUDDY]

Oh wow, this looks really good. Keep it up guys, you're doing great.

[chasealexander]

soo cool can't wait for it. LOVE THE 28 SERIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
is it up and running  or is it free?

[fyreNL]

is it up and running  or is it free?

28ML is completely free to play once it is released. All you need is Crysis warhead to play it.

Unfortunately, it isn't released yet. You'll have to be patient.

[chasealexander]

okay is crysis free? Or do u have to buy it?

[Ocon]

you need to buy crysis Warhead not crysis

[Vector]

When is warhead actually released?
Since all the dates i've seen are so random across the month.

Some dates say Sept-14th while others say Sept-26.

[fyreNL]

Its possible Sept 14 its release is scheduled for one or more specific continents.

[Supermax]

Next update???