Wow!! Very nice work here! How did you go about ripping the model? Could you explain your process?

Edit: Also when are you going to post the models for download so we can have fun with these

I have no plans on trying to make a shenmue game, mainly because its an impossible task. But putting some models into gmod for fun could be great. You can make all kinds of short movies and animations in gmod. Thats the main reason why I want to use it. Its a big sandbox.

I plan on converting ryo to garrys mod sometime in the near future. Its really not that hard, here is a video tutorial on how to convert models in max to gmod.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 559989466#

We still have the moddb page up, we couldnt find anyone to help us so its kinda stopped/dead. Here is the moddb page http://www.moddb.com/mods/shenmue-gmod

I have tried to capture it manually and its a pain in the ass to weld it all together. Especially on characters, its not much fun :(

Very interesting! It might be possible, you need to figure out a way to avoid the backface culling issue though. So somehow the engine or camera needs to see all sides of ryo at the same time. You can run 3d ripper in wireframe mode so you can see if your getting all the polys or not. It would be ni...

Very well said. I am up for donating 100 dollars USD. But before I spend (or anyone donates for that matter) we need to get in contact with a coder and ask for a quote so we don't overspend. We also need to make sure we have some kind of contract setup with the coder to ensure they agree to do the j...

^^ That sounds like a good idea. If we can get a few more people we could for sure get someone to do this for us.

^^ Haha that is awesome

Fraps is probably the best one, its made for recording games.

Looking good

^^ I want to see a video of this as well

Very nice work, what are these rendered in? I am guessing sketch up with vray?

Great work guys, congrats on getting it done.

Haha very nice, was this done in photoshop or did you mod the UV maps?