Comments on: Killzone 2 In d’artiste: Character Modeling 3

By: Baksuz

Baksuz — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:03:20 +0000

Killzone 2 is one of the rare games out there that has a great sense of character in the entire world (character, surroundings). Everything really fits together and creates a feeling of familiar but yet so strange, besides it is dark and gritty and dirty and gives a feeling of a very realistic place that you would not want to visit

Level design is on an entirely different level than all the other FPS games I played, with the narrow little dirty streets and half broken buildings had a very very realistic vibe to it. Sense of scale was really well done, which was something that really disturbed me in Halo 3 – because buildings there felt like cardboard set pieces.

Hellgan models are awesome and sniper is my favorite. ISA look like the standard western military, which is what they should represent, the only thing I really disliked is the stereotypical action movie “hooah” millitary behaviour.

Still, killzone 2 is one of my favorite games, and I’m not even a huge FPS fan

By: Scuffy_P

Scuffy_P — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:02:50 +0000

Maya and ZBrush are both my tools of choice (athough I do like to use Softimage for certain applications). This’ll be incredibly interesting to follow, and no I’ll doubt pick up some new tricks along the way.
Sold….

[Congratulations on the success you've all had with Killzone 2 this year. The expectations, pressure, cynicism, and all-out fanboy war, created a whirlwind around the development of a title I've not seen in over 30 years of gaming. You all deserve to feel that pride of achievement. Not many studios would be able to pull it off, and create one of the best games of 2009....regardless of platform. Certainly the FPS GotY. Good luck for 2010].

By: Stonesthrow

Stonesthrow — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:47:35 +0000

killzone 2 is still a major underrated piece of art (especially compared to other over-rated games like modern warfare 2), graphically nothing still comes close to this, not even the most beautiful PC shooters..And yeah besides that it’s just one of those grown up series which makes you proud to be gamer, even if people think of us as nerds sometimes, they obviously haven’t played games like killzone and metal gear solid ^^ Keep up the great work and tell the Guerilla team not to hesitate releasing Killzone 3 upon us as soon as possible :p You guys are what gaming companies should be..killzone ftw, now and forever

By: theshepanator

theshepanator — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:26:47 +0000

what type of helghast is that on the cover of the book? Its quite an irregular mask(?)

By: spatsnaz

spatsnaz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:22:55 +0000

Oh lord that looks good. The price is too steep for me though ;__;

By: CartBlanche

CartBlanche — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:01:47 +0000

Hi Jan-Bart,
Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. I suppose my constraints question is not really modelling related but more how the models react in game. By constraints, what I wanted to know was if the model joints are constrained to a certain range of movement. Therefore if a force, like a bullet, is applied to that joint and it exceeds the constraints, you would have a “snapping off” sort of effect. Therefore allowing limbs to break off etc under certain pressures/conditions.

By: TehPhilosopher

TehPhilosopher — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:42:17 +0000

Nice post, I recently picked up KZ2 multiplayer again after a bit of a hiatus – really enjoying it!

I’d like to know what different challenges you face when designing characters which have a visible face (eg. engineer) vs. those with faces covered by helmets or masks (sniper)? Are there specific reasons you go for the face-covering model? Is it harder to design human faces, or to make faceless characters players can still relate to?

By: Jan-Bart van Beek

Jan-Bart van Beek — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:06:36 +0000

Maya and z-brush

By: kamizuka

kamizuka — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:44:48 +0000

it is awesome to see how you guys made the best graphicly game ever made

By: wiktorclunk

wiktorclunk — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:35:44 +0000

cool

By: Zaphloo

Zaphloo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:35:24 +0000

What modeling software are you using?

By: Pruane69

Pruane69 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:15:56 +0000

Are you guys planning on releasing any new DLC for Killzone 2 anytime soon?

By: Redh3lix

Redh3lix — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:05:56 +0000

Hi Jan-Bart van Beek!

Just like to say thanks to Guerilla Games for the pure awesomeness that is Killzone 2. I’m very much looking forward to GG’s next game!

By: Paulus-NL

Paulus-NL — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:04:51 +0000

Goed bezig

By: Kamotcha

Kamotcha — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:48:13 +0000

Hi Mr.Jan-Bart van Beek very nice work with KZ2, I can’t wait to see what you guys are cooking for the next killzone and how far can you push the amazing KZ engine(60FPS? lol) and I wish you could bring some more helghast story to the game maybe play as one in sp for the next killzone?

By: AKGermany

AKGermany — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:30:45 +0000

I like the visual character design you guys are doing a lot.
…was supposed to be the first sentence.

By: AKGermany

AKGermany — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:29:33 +0000

I like the visual character design are doing a lot. I love how distinctly different even all of the “space marines” look. The Hellghast design is pretty awesome and iconic.
My problem with the characters of the Killzone franchise is that I have a hard time genuinely liking most of them as far as their personalities are concerned – and the ones I do like usually get killed during the story.

By: Jan-Bart van Beek

Jan-Bart van Beek — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:10:07 +0000

Hey Spathis,

We’re all hard at work ofcourse. Seb’s a producer these days and is running around all day producing stuff, so he probably hasn’t had much time to post on the forums.
I’ll tell him you guys are missing him

Killzone’s engine is only being used by Guerrilla. It’s a complicated beast of a thing and it takes years to fully understand it. Next to that most developers like to build their own engines, much more fun that way.

By: Spathis

Spathis — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:03:04 +0000

What are you guys up to at Guerrilla Games? Seb Downie hasn’t posted in ages on the US PSForums. Anymore stuff happening for Killzone 2? or guys working on Killzone 3 or other projects?

Also any other Devs being using the Killzone 2 engine? or will be?

By: Iorghe

Iorghe — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:54:46 +0000

I’d rather have it that you guys would make the save games not read only. My PS3 died on me right before then end boss fight, I couldn’t back up my killzone 2 save game… I cannot begin to describe how frustrating that is