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Dink Smallwood Original 3ds Max Models

August 25th 2022, 02:03 PM
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teal(cool)
Ghost They/Them
 
hello dink friends.

i am wondering if the original 3d studio max files for dink's assets are distributed anywhere

thank you
August 25th 2022, 02:26 PM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
no, but they are supposedly still out there - either on seth's or justin's...uh, wherever they put them.

so far, seth has been pretty evasive.
August 25th 2022, 03:41 PM
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teal(cool)
Ghost They/Them
 
"so far seth has been evasive"
why? it's not like anyone would ever monetize them for something so ultra-niche as dink. in the modern age where every game from overwatch to uncharted to quake has ripped 3d assets in their highest quality with working rigs, it makes no sense to keep them hidden.

literally only good things could happen if they were released. nobody would see the quality of them as anything other than charming after twenty four years of the game existing.

if he does not have the 3d studio max scenes then he should just admit it.
August 25th 2022, 04:08 PM
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drone1400
Peasant He/Him Romania
C# nerd 
I imagine he literally has no idea where they are. It's been *decades* after all.

Although, maybe we should see if Seth himself has an answer rather than assuming things
August 25th 2022, 10:10 PM
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teal(cool)
Ghost They/Them
 
look at this neat weird-ass render

August 26th 2022, 12:20 AM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
theres no assuming things. that's all there is
August 26th 2022, 06:42 AM
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Seth
Peasant He/Him Japan
 
Yes I have old .max files somewhere on backups, no I've never given them out. No plans to make them available at this time.
August 26th 2022, 12:45 PM
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teal(cool)
Ghost They/Them
 
y tho
August 26th 2022, 01:14 PM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
^
August 26th 2022, 06:28 PM
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teal(cool)
Ghost They/Them
 
here is my assumption

seth has noticed fans have made better ports (free dink > dink high definition)
seth has noticed fans have made better games in the dink smallwood engine (the disciple, prophecy of the ancients, milli vanilli)
seth is holding on to one of the last things he has that other people cannot improve
August 26th 2022, 10:49 PM
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Robj
Jester He/Him Australia
You feed the madness, and it feeds on you. 
seth has noticed fans have made better ports (free dink > dink high definition)

I was in the boat of FreeDink>DinkHD until recently too. But DinksmallwoodHD is better than FreeDink now since the recent updates. I mean they are both on par, performance wise and compatibility wise now, but now DinkHD also has extra functions, and obviously the bells and whistles that come with "HD". Pair it with drones martridge launcher and you can have all the versions easily installed anyway(freedink and DinkHD), and run everything in a very convenient way.

Anyway,the models would be good. Would really help create more actual Dink graphics, rather than editing them frame by frame for hours like ExDeathevn had to do to make the shield graphics. I hope they are released one day.
August 26th 2022, 10:55 PM
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Seth
Peasant He/Him Japan
 
Like 20+ years ago I WAS thinking I should keep these models private because we'd use them for Dink Smallwood 2 (3? I don't know what to call it) , but .. yeah, that ain't happening. And a few years after that it became obvious they were too old and broken to be used for anything so I just ignored them.

Anyway, I just spent the last hour digging through backups as I've realized it will save time to just release everything rather than deal with conspiracy theories about them eternally, so without further ado:

The magical Dink 3dsmax stuff, with textures and other strangeness (137 MB)

So PLEASE if anybody can setup the correct environment to be able to read and export them to a more modern format (blender?) please convert them and share them so anybody can use them. Knowing what this entails, may God have mercy on your soul.

And BTW, I would *LOVE IT* if someone found them useful to help make a DMOD or dinkish game with them, so please do, anybody. Everybody.

Legal:

* I can't guarantee the textures are all legal to distribute, some may be from a texture library etc making it legally grey, but from what I looked at, the textures seems mostly made by Justin Martin. Credit to ALL of this goes to him, and if you ever end up using any of it, please give him credit as he's amazing.

* Of the parts that I do legally own, I release them under the same license as the dink bmp art, ie, do whatever you want, just don't pretend to be me or infringe on the name Dink Smallwood (ie, don't callanything Dink Smallwood 2 please because you never know)

Q. "But Seth, I spent many hours converting this model and it's glitchy, has problems with anim bones and is basically unusable to be actually used for anything"

A. Yes
August 27th 2022, 01:05 AM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
HOLY SHIT DUDE
August 27th 2022, 03:10 AM
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Robj
Jester He/Him Australia
You feed the madness, and it feeds on you. 
Your amazing Seth. Thanks.
August 27th 2022, 03:24 AM
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yeoldetoast
Peasant They/Them Australia
LOOK UPON MY DEFORMED FACE! 
Seth you are a saint! Thank you exceedingly! So far I have managed to re-render that blue metal thing in 4K so we can finally see what it is.
August 27th 2022, 03:48 AM
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drone1400
Peasant He/Him Romania
C# nerd 
Woah, feels like I woke up in an alternate timeline again.

Thanks for the models Seth!

I'll never use them myself since I'm not a graphics artist, but I'm looking forward to see what folks around here will be doing with them!
August 27th 2022, 04:53 AM
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RangerLord
Peasant He/Him Hungary bloop
The nation above all 
Thanks Seth!
This is really cool.
August 27th 2022, 05:33 AM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
i've been snooping around and this is probably the best thing to be uh, kinda released for the dn. so much unused shit - some fat guy with a leather apron, a scorpion enemy, a ducking thing called a winged GAT. there's shields, there's a whole series of milder models where he's got some kinda vanguard helmet and gets promoted to general armour and another set of general armour with a red cape and so many other unused models i had no idea existed. it's a ducking trip and everyone should find an old copy of 3ds max and look through this stuff.

upright, walking slayer is ducking awesome.
August 27th 2022, 07:29 AM
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DinkDude95
Peasant He/Him Australia
The guy with the cute D-Mod. 
This is so cool. Major props to you for releasing these, Seth.
August 27th 2022, 07:54 AM
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teal(cool)
Ghost They/Them
 
I DID IT
August 27th 2022, 09:33 AM
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drone1400
Peasant He/Him Romania
C# nerd 
Ok, so after talking with Skurn on discord and stuff, we figured out that all the textures used hardcoded absolute paths.

I tried to make a tool that replaces all the hardcoded paths with relative paths automagically in the .max files. The source for it is on github over here: https://github.com/drone1400/DinkModelPathFixer

The results I uploaded on my OneDrive over here: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AnJELDdVd4tqhApcnqEZ8fQd9A7j?e=OsSfgs

Basically, these should work in old versions of 3D Studio Max, and when you render the models they should have working textures. There were some errors though, for more info about them check the log file in the one drive zip, and read the info under Possible errors on github.

Some files probably need some additional manual tweaking, also they would still all need to be converted into something that Blender can use!...

Edit: Added a readme to the archive linking back here and included Seth's original post too.
August 27th 2022, 02:03 PM
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liquid141
Peasant They/Them
Sons of liberty 
er what does this mean for the dink community ? not sure if this is for the sequel or 3d version of game/ dmods ?
August 27th 2022, 02:16 PM
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teal(cool)
Ghost They/Them
 
it means the floodgates have been opened for new versions of dink's sprites and edits! a lot of fun things will happen for future dmods!

@liquid it's the original 3ds max scenes that were rendered into sprites for the actual game
August 27th 2022, 02:49 PM
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So far I have managed to re-render that blue metal thing in 4K so we can finally see what it is

So, some sort of distiller, definitely not a futuristic toilet. Huh. The things you learn!
August 27th 2022, 03:59 PM
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drone1400
Peasant He/Him Romania
C# nerd 
Reuploaded the archive on onedrive (same link) since I accidentally zipped it with Bzip2 compression instead of Deflate, so older versions of WinRAR (and apparently default Windows 11 zip lelelel) couldn't extract it.

Hopefully someone can actually convert the models to blender soon
August 27th 2022, 04:18 PM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
someone get a hold of iplaydink. dude has blender experience. in fact, shit, bluedy and ipd could make a good team if all that stuff can be fully converted. maybe dink could even get a nose and some eyes instead of blue holes.

This thread is why we should be able to embed images.
August 28th 2022, 07:15 AM
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yeoldetoast
Peasant They/Them Australia
LOOK UPON MY DEFORMED FACE! 
Along with the non-toilet and walking slayer, there's a lot of other interesting stuff such as this prepared scene. And, after all these years, we finally get to find out what the signs actually have written on them.

Also, ebilv, your program appears to be attempting to overwrite the preset render path in some of them leading to misreported errors. I'm guessing it just indiscriminately scans for strings. R3 has the ability to set a search path for textures which also sidesteps the need for this.
August 28th 2022, 08:27 AM
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drone1400
Peasant He/Him Romania
C# nerd 
>I'm guessing it just indiscriminately scans for strings.

Yeah pretty much. I should look into the file format more closely to figure out which are actual textures.

What's R3? Is that a version of 3DS Max or what?
August 28th 2022, 08:23 PM
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teal(cool)
Ghost They/Them
 
hello, i have retopologized the original Dink Smallwood sprites and rigged them with mixamo and it turned out wonderful.

i am waiting for my email to activate my account. does it usually take this long? i would like to upload the entire file set, i have it in fbx, max, 3ds, obj, and dae (i do not use blender)

this is not me trying to take credit for dink but to simply give a modern alternative model that can be easily posed with a modern 3ds max biped or a mixamo biped (that has a ton of animations on the mixamo website)

hope you like it when i release it
August 28th 2022, 09:03 PM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
hell yeah, another 3d artist of some sort.

and if you didn't get an email right away, you never will. there's been an ongoing bug where, it seems, certain email providers have blacklisted or auto-delete anything from the dn. its been getting looked at off and on and the only way anyone has found to solve it is to go in and request a lost password.
August 28th 2022, 09:24 PM
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liquid141
Peasant They/Them
Sons of liberty 
The images looks so neat, cant wait for dmod or a update to bump up the games looks with these
August 28th 2022, 09:26 PM
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Robj
Jester He/Him Australia
You feed the madness, and it feeds on you. 
"i am waiting for my email to activate my account. does it usually take this long?"

I think the DN still is having account creation email issues.
Try pressing forgot password, and putting your information in (the same as the account you created), others have said this will send you a password reset link and force activate your account.
August 29th 2022, 05:05 AM
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drone1400
Peasant He/Him Romania
C# nerd 
@teal(cool)
Wow! That sounds amazing! There have been some issues with account registration emails not being sent out...

Some users report that using the Reset Password option sends out the email, but you might need to wait 24h in between attempts?...

I'll pester Redink on discord about it too... Feel free to join the discord, linked in the chat section, and pester him yourself too
August 29th 2022, 10:50 AM
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teal(cool)
Ghost They/Them
 
i do not like discord
August 29th 2022, 12:56 PM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
neither do we. its a hive of scum and villainy.
August 29th 2022, 04:17 PM
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drone1400
Peasant He/Him Romania
C# nerd 
Would you feel any better about Guilded instead?
August 30th 2022, 04:57 PM
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Binirit
Peasant She/Her
 
Wow, thank you, Seth. <3

What an excellent timing for me to return to Dink Network!
August 30th 2022, 10:07 PM
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yeoldetoast
Peasant They/Them Australia
LOOK UPON MY DEFORMED FACE! 
Yeah, Max R3 and later will automatically find the textures wherever they're strewn. Unfortunately, they won't work with the various necessary plugins (apart from maybe Character Studio) needed for certain aspects of animation, such as the fountain's water. For those, R1.2 or R2.5 are needed, along with the relevant plugin.

In terms of exporting, I managed to make an STL of the church which I then printed out.
August 30th 2022, 10:10 PM
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Robj
Jester He/Him Australia
You feed the madness, and it feeds on you. 
Yeoldetoast, you seem to know what you're doing with these models. Man, you need to find a way to get back into the discord so you can share your divine wisdom. xD
August 31st 2022, 12:01 AM
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PoolFloaty
Ghost They/Them
 
This is some awesome stuff to come back to when my interest in dink peaked once again
August 31st 2022, 12:06 AM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
yeah toast, come back. there's so much we can get out of these models, its insane

and print some dink action figures for us
September 28th 2022, 10:35 AM
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I've been out of it for a while... but come back to find 3D printing from the original models! Shiny textures! New animations! Am I dreaming? It's the future
October 16th 2022, 04:54 PM
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toof
Peasant He/Him
I disagree. 
@teal(cool)
I DID IT

He has a point. I think this teal(cool) guy deserves to have his account set up for free, instead of a regular fee of 99.99$. Redink1 should sort that out.

Welcome, and thanks for pushing Darth lord Seth over the edge, finally.