[Jimmg]

I was just about to post that.

[The Commander]

It's all old and faked. *cough cough, Riddick*

[Sangman]

The Commander, on Jun 26 2010, 06:01 PM, said:

Well, I was talking about http://www.youtube.c...h?v=JcAv0eAz96k myself.

Which I uploaded way back in December 26, 2009 then someone found it on April Fools 2010 which sparked all that new controversy... *sigh* DNF fanny boys...

Yeah nevermind that you were sending the link around to some people you maybe shouldn't have.

[The Commander]

Trust, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

[DavoX]

I don't know if this is the right place but could anyone that downloaded the leaked reels and stuff send me a PM with some Octabrain stuff? I'd really like more references for my sculpture. I promise not to tell anything. Thanks.

I

[ryche]

yossa, on 12 May 2009 - 02:39 AM, said:

Not many people remember this:

This is old and a shot in hell but did anyone by chance save this picture? It should be a small 3d model of Duke off the 3D Realms website from around 1997/1998. Yossa was nice enough to upload it a "few" years back however tinypic no longer exists. I thought I saved this but I can't find it anywhere. Just wondering if someone did save it or if it ended up in the archive that's talked about in the pages of this thread (that archive no longer works either as the links that are posted around are broken).

So if anyone has a copy, could you post it? Thanks.

[Joe3DR]

ryche, on 12 May 2009 - 12:58 AM, said:

You know, I'm gonna be a dick and mention something.

When DNF was annouced back in 97, around that time or 98 on the 3DR site they had a picture of the 3D model of Duke for DNF. You don't by chance have that in there?



I'm sure you don't. I thought I did when I found a copy of my old Duke3D fan site I did back in that time and I did link to it from 3DR but I thought I saved it too but apparently didn't.

This is the page you sent me in a private chat.

http://web.archive.o.../catalog/duke4/

Since I created it, I have the master backup - unencumbered from the weirdness that archive.org can be.

The fourth broken image there is - per the source code 4q.gif. I pulled said 4q image from my archives. It's this:



The date stamp in the 4q.gif image was 5 Feb, 1998.

It was obviously put there by me as a "We don't know what he will look like in DNF" at this time placeholder.

[Joe3DR]

Additional. I pulled the complete website archive, unpacked the bastard, and took a screenshot of what it really looked like.

There was no 3D render of Duke from DNF at this point. Here's the page..

http://forums.3dreal...nf_1998page.png

[Hendricks266]

ryche, on 16 October 2020 - 12:25 PM, said:

This is old and a shot in hell but did anyone by chance save this picture? It should be a small 3d model of Duke off the 3D Realms website from around 1997/1998. Yossa was nice enough to upload it a "few" years back however tinypic no longer exists. I thought I saved this but I can't find it anywhere. Just wondering if someone did save it or if it ended up in the archive that's talked about in the pages of this thread (that archive no longer works either as the links that are posted around are broken).

So if anyone has a copy, could you post it? Thanks.

I remember this image. I think it was using Dirk Jones' Duke model but I'm not certain.

I was unable to find a 1f8yfm.gif among my data.

[Joe3DR]

Hendricks266, on 16 October 2020 - 01:13 PM, said:

I remember this image. I think it was using Dirk Jones' Duke model but I'm not certain.

I was unable to find a 1f8yfm.gif among my data.

If we had such a model on our site, it wasn't on this page. I have the original HTML and all images - it was a "4q" image.

Unless.. I just had a thought. Checking additional archives.

[Joe3DR]

Joe3DR, on 16 October 2020 - 01:23 PM, said:

If we had such a model on our site, it wasn't on this page. I have the original HTML and all images - it was a "4q" image.

Unless.. I just had a thought. Checking additional archives.

I found what Ryche was talking about. It was this image.

However it absolutely was NOT on that page he was talking about. I have the source code for both variants of that page (in what I called the "Green TV" and "Green TV 2" variants of the 3DR site). This image was titled duke4.gif, and was referenced from some other page, but I don't have time now to dig into my archives and search all the source code to see what referenced it at this time.

The time/date stamp on this image was 5 Feb 1998 @ 10:36 AM.



This image was on one of the Green TV versions, and not the other. Neither linked from the page Ryche linked me earlier.

[ryche]

Yes!!!!!

[OpenMaw]

There is also a version of it that animates. Which may be on the Duke Nukem Forever Museum along with the rest of the DJ work. I actually recreated this model years ago with the texture that was available on Jones' website.

It would have been really charming to see Duke in the original Quake engine with those chunky low poly graphics. Shame.

[William Beavis]

Wow, it's like a time capsule. Was that the E3 98 model?

[OpenMaw]

William Beavis, on 17 October 2020 - 01:25 PM, said:

Wow, it's like a time capsule. Was that the E3 98 model?

Nah that Q1 model is from 97. We only ever saw the 98 Duke from the back during the turret sections.

[William Beavis]

OpenMaw, on 17 October 2020 - 04:36 PM, said:

Nah that Q1 model is from 97. We only ever saw the 98 Duke from the back during the turret sections.

You sure? The image date stamp was in Feb 98, as Joe said above. Just three months before E3. And since we only saw him from behind, it's pretty hard to tell.

[OpenMaw]

William Beavis, on 18 October 2020 - 07:04 AM, said:

You sure? The image date stamp was in Feb 98, as Joe said above. Just three months before E3. And since we only saw him from behind, it's pretty hard to tell.

Yeah, it's not the same. The one in the image above has a jetpack permanently mounted on his back. The hair color is different. The one in the 98 demonstration would be higher detail in just about every way considering how Bombshell looked.

[William Beavis]

OpenMaw, on 18 October 2020 - 10:29 AM, said:

Yeah, it's not the same. The one in the image above has a jetpack permanently mounted on his back. The hair color is different. The one in the 98 demonstration would be higher detail in just about every way considering how Bombshell looked.

I suppose you're right, looking now. Been a long time since I saw that old trailer.