First Models

Hi all,

as a proof of concept and to give you an idea of what I am working on, I want to share some of the updated stall models with you. You can see them in the Post "A sign of life...".

They are not finished by now and could use some polishing here and there.

Here is the link:

https://mega.nz/file/QEBmkTLZ#cwq6kV2nJRAcMxWyXXPZkWiV7nKLOhIelUJK79-_o0M

Simply download and put the .cem - files inside your models folder. They should play nicely along with my textures.

Please leave a comment and tell me what you think about my work and what to improve next.

Best Regards

Horus

A sign of life...

It's been years since I last posted here and I don't know how many of you still come around here or even play this old gem of a video game. I recently felt that it would be nice to give it another try and what I discovered then made me really excited! By the time I was working on the texture overhaul project, I always thought how nice it would be to be able to edit the models and show them some love or correct bugs, for example broken UV maps or missing faces.

I spent hours searching the web for a possibility to edit those cem models and there was none. Until now...

Thanks to zocker-160 and his blender addon from github, we can now import and export Children of the Nile's models and edit them with blender. This is such a great opportunity to make this game even better by updating, fixing and even replacing it's static models like buildings with better ones. As far as I understood, there is no way of editing animations at the moment, so it's not possible to edit people or animals. But the possibilities are yet endless! I started some small projects and updates shops stalls like pottery, linen and baskets or so to see what's possible and I am very happy with the results. See some screenshots to get an impression.

I will see how far I come by working on Children of the Nile's models from time to time as a hobby and maybe share some of my updated models with you here.

Stay tuned

Best Regards

Horus