4:42 the "flipped normals" isn't the terrain exporting the wrong way, it's because the normals were made for OpenGL, while Unreal uses the other normal map type (DirectX) the literal only difference in these is the green channel being the opposite way in the normal map. Many various programs use either OpenGL or DirectX, it's a mixed bag in the industry
That makes a lot of sense. I'm not an artist or technical artist, so as a systems designer, I only know the basics of this stuff. Thank you for teaching me why this happens :)
Exactly! I can do anything I want with this project instead of having it constrained to a strict, custom engine. I could make a racing mini-game of some kind if I wanted to. I absolutely do not want to put any kind of racing game in this...but I could if I wanted haha
@@Level_reDesign Yeah, a lot of these features that you're planning could definitely not be attempted on the original Fable engine. I wouldn't even be surprised if it was a challenge in the Anniversary DLC because that version of Unreal is really limited! You could make the "racing mini game" chicken related!
OBS had an update and reset the video quality settings unfortunately at some point while recording footage! I will have higher quality video on the next update!
If you need any help. Please don't hesitate to ask. I'm sure the fable community would come to your aid ❤️ i for one would do anything just to assist you in this amazing project
Amazing to see this!! I remade the Hero's Guild from scratch in UE4, 2 years ago as a portfolio piece (im a 3d artist). Used a combination of TLC and Annyversary as a reference. I love to see that there are still passionate Fable fans doing these projects ;p
This is a really cool video bro. I remember when this game was so good when it first came out. I'm glad to see people still showing some love for this wonderful game.
Wow now this would be cool project to see completed. I have been playing the remastered version and I am a bit disappointed that they didn't take some creative points like you have mentioned in the video, especially the loading screen and still a bit clunky lol cant wait to see your final product here.
Restarted Anniversary the other day and noticed just how huge the environment is outside the playable area so I'm so pumped for this. Fable is a much bigger game physically than I remembered so seeing it all flow together will be awesome.
They did a lot of tricks to make the region's seem larger than they were! Really cool! I'm working on the script for episode 3 now, but I will be moving states soon, so I will do a video during my time out that is easier to make just showing how current regions connect. That's the plan anyways lol
Great to see somebody else is working on this (albeit as a mod for Oblivion/Skyrim), although you seem to be making much quicker progress than I've managed to! Look forward to seeing more.
I would love to see the Fable maps modded in to Elder Scrolls lol. What area did/are you bringing in first? To be fair, I spent almost a month and a half with the sole focus of trying to figure out how to do this as fast as possible. It will be much slower after the MVP as I will be doing more environment building by hand. There are things that is frustrating by doing it how I do it right now lol
i wanna be able to free roam in this game too add swimming too would be cool, keep this project going, been playing a lot of anniversary lately and I cant wait to see this project tranform this beloved game into a whole nother type of experience
OMG FABLE🤯 this looks awesome. I hope fable 4 wont be a disappointment but at least we got this until then. I'll follow your progress and i can't wait for the next video!
Yeah, I think Playground is Microsoft's most talented studio, so I think it will be good at the very least because it seems Playground refuses to release anything mediocre for the target audience. It may not live up to Fable 1, but I think it will be great regardless. If I had to pick a team to make Fable, I would either choose Playground games or Double Fine because of how simply amazing Psychonauts 2 was
@@Level_reDesign agreed! Psychonauts 2 was super nice as well. and I'm just happy we get a 4th fable in the first place so I'm looking forward to that.
I'm not against the idea as these assets are publicly available, all I would do is save time. However, looking back, I wish I would have exported individual assets and recreate the regions (rather than exporting a whole level). I am actually writing a video script right now where I call this my biggest mistake/regret for the project lol
Honestly it absolutely blows my mind Xbox hasn’t done a full remake of this game. It’s legendary and it would sell so well. Instead we’re getting a full reboot of the franchise 😢
I have a decent build. Ryzen 2700x with a RTX 3060 and the project is on an NVME SSD. Funny story with that. I had a very outdated GPU because of the shortage. I had a 960 still. I ran into an issue where I hit my VRAM limit in the editor on this project with the 2 GB that card had. So, I bought a 3060 that day from Best Buy with 12 GB of VRAM. You don't need that much, especially if you are not doing an open world game. As far as performance, in editor doesn't seem to be any slower or faster, but the application can run a bit faster than UE4 is seems. I don't know the full benefits of UE5's optimizations yet though due to not being far enough into the project. Once I have more active systems, lights, dynamic object animations, and AI in the project, we will be able to see better how performance is in UE5 over UE4.
Fable 2 deserves a remake so much, But I am going to pass on that myself personally. I am also making a Fable city builder game that has a lot of neat ideas and potential. After these are done, I will either do one more remake of a PS1 Licensed game (the game is a cult classic), or I will make a kids game. We need more good games for little kids. I wanted to make a Bluey game, but that was just announced by another studio lol
Yeah, I have a lot of people hyped for the next part, and it brings the views in for sure lol. I put the project on a temporary pause to work on a Fable City Builder. But don't worry, I am coming back to this UE5 project; it is not being cancelled! I may even work on both at the same time so people don't get upset over the UE5 pause lol
@@byronvalencia1462 I actually have a Patreon page ready to go live, but I don't want to make it active right now. All funds would go towards my projects, not a dime would go in my pocket. But I want to make sure the support would be there first to justify it. I have had numerous people ask about this though
Do you mean doing this are far as 3D game development, or as in the specs required to play the project? The specs for the project have not been optimized very much at all yet. For my dev PC, I have a Ryzen 7 2700x, 32 GB RAM, and an RTX 3060. I'm upgrading my PC this year though lol
Yep, I will do a long play show case of the game showing off everything I made for the proof of concept at the very least before moving onto my next major side project
I think I will eventually completely replace or update the model for the hero character because I think the anniversary model is kind of ugly and prefer the visual style of the Lost Chapters hero (although it is "higher quality"). While doing that, I will probably look at updating the pure and evil visuals. I think something cool would be is if certain "evil" or "good" body effects were locked behind tasks. Like, what if you could only get fallen angel wings if you were fully good, and became fully evil. I'm not sure if any of this is feasible yet though because of the possible implications it could cause with animation work. I need to do more research when I get to that point However, I don't plan to until at least the MVP is done, so this would probably be a few months from now at the earliest!
@@Level_reDesign that sounds like a great idea please make it as dark as possible as well for example dark wood forest I wish the Hobbes looked more gruesome as well same with balverines and trolls undead ect id love to see it more scary than what anniversary did I was really let down by the way everything looked
@@Level_reDesign oh and knothole Glade make the area really rainy like a constant down pour p.s. make the arena replay able and add all the different mini games at the bars inside the arena barracks
@@albow6492 this is funny because the real estate feature you asked about is something that I mentioned earlier in a discord group with solution that I am 100% doing. Having to kill people to buy property goes against the core design of Fable. But my solution is pretty cool and unique I think ;) it is a secret for now though lol
Great question since I am using a lot of Fable assets currently. Trust me, the visual updates have not even really started! Here is the plan: 1st, I will be replacing the sky and have a better skylight system when I get a day night system in. That will probably be the first update I make. This will also have a weather system with it 2nd, I am fully replacing many of the outdated models in the environment. This is what I mentioned in the video with the trees, rock, and foliage meshes. I may do more as well, but that is the minimum. 3rd, I will be upscaling all of the textures up to 4k with AI. I have already tested this with some textures about a month ago, and it is a crazy big improvement. I will also replace some textures that are a bit more generic all together. I actually used super high quality textures already on the terrain. Lastly (for right this moment) I will update the lighting and see if I can get a better lighting result than Anniversary had.
I just repainted the entire ground meshes in engine. Something else though that I don't know if I mentioned in the video, but the normals were reversed in the export as well
@@Level_reDesign i saw that in a comment thanks by the way for being the first person to give me information on this as ive been trying to work with fable tlcs heightmaps which are incomplete (the only ones i could find didnt include darkwood hook coast or the northern wastes) wasnt til your video i learned i could export the entire scene as an obj
While not necessarily against the idea, I will be changing the way I get assets for all regions after the MVP in order to help save project space and resources. The way I did it is faster (which is important for a prototype or MVP), but it is not optimal at all for the project. I will be making this change as I start on the Greatwood regions. I may do a video on this during my move in December to show better what I am talking about. We will see
@@Level_reDesign not sure if you ever resolved the game sound issue but would 100% be willing to spend 6 hours labeling and organizing game sound files in exchange for your ripped assets. Been playing a lot of fable recently and want to build some levels in unity lol.
That is very generous of you! :) However, I'm not currently looking for financial support from anyone right now. I don't have many people caring right now to the point that it doesn't really make a difference, but also, I want to be sure I am in a position to deliver content at a quality level that would deserve donations first! If this channel grows, I will consider it though! Thanks again for asking! You are like the 3rd person to ask :)
Sure is! I just added in the quest and dialogue system, and am setting up the Starter Oakvale mission currently! Expect to see that on my next update :)
You know, you were right, but what is actually taking the longest is making player combat and AI (Neither of which I have a lot of experience in). I saved a crazy amount of hours from getting to reuse art though lol
I'm not against giving the files out, as anyone can do it. So I'm just saving time for people (opposed to giving out resources that should be inaccessible. However, there are a few issues. I didn't export them in the most future proof way, which would have been to do the assets one by one and rebuild the levels. Also, size is an issue for deployment to people because of the way I did it, I don't want to pay to have enough space on Google Drive to let people download them. With that being said, I do have a video about how to get the files from Fable Anniversary, and it isn't very difficult. Just a little time consuming.
You know, I actually completely agree that the one thing I dislike more about the anniversary version than anything else is the main character design. The issue though is animations and rigging. I can not get any of the animations from the TLC, and since there are 700 animations for the main character, it just isn't possible for me to make those by hand. Rigging the model from TLC to work with those animations from FA is also a big issue because pulling a skeletal mesh from TLC is extremely difficult. I got the static meshes, but skeletal meshes are a whole different game. After I finish the first hour of the game for my MVP, I will start looking into remaking the character though to see how heavy that task would be
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4:42 the "flipped normals" isn't the terrain exporting the wrong way, it's because the normals were made for OpenGL, while Unreal uses the other normal map type (DirectX) the literal only difference in these is the green channel being the opposite way in the normal map. Many various programs use either OpenGL or DirectX, it's a mixed bag in the industry
That makes a lot of sense. I'm not an artist or technical artist, so as a systems designer, I only know the basics of this stuff. Thank you for teaching me why this happens :)
This is currently one of the most exciting projects on Fable currently. This is truly epic.
This is amazing! The fact that this is being done on a modern engine makes it so much more flexable!
Exactly! I can do anything I want with this project instead of having it constrained to a strict, custom engine. I could make a racing mini-game of some kind if I wanted to. I absolutely do not want to put any kind of racing game in this...but I could if I wanted haha
@@Level_reDesign Yeah, a lot of these features that you're planning could definitely not be attempted on the original Fable engine. I wouldn't even be surprised if it was a challenge in the Anniversary DLC because that version of Unreal is really limited!
You could make the "racing mini game" chicken related!
@@Level_reDesign maybe you can put stuff like the singing sword and such
I would have never thought of this being a reality. The kid in me is so psyched to see the finished project.
OBS had an update and reset the video quality settings unfortunately at some point while recording footage! I will have higher quality video on the next update!
This is looking pretty awesome! I’m excited to see more of the project 😁
This looks amazing, I'll be watching this project with great interest!
Love what your doing. Seriously. I will be keeping an eye out for updates 💯 it would be my dream to remake my favourite game. Good luck 👍
If you need any help. Please don't hesitate to ask. I'm sure the fable community would come to your aid ❤️ i for one would do anything just to assist you in this amazing project
damn, this is awesome!
As a person who been playing this game through 300 times, Im very intrigued in this project! Keep it up my dude, you're a true hero of albion
Amazing to see this!! I remade the Hero's Guild from scratch in UE4, 2 years ago as a portfolio piece (im a
3d artist). Used a combination of TLC and Annyversary as a reference. I love to see that there are still passionate Fable fans doing these projects ;p
My eyes thank you for the beauty the are beholding
This is a really cool video bro. I remember when this game was so good when it first came out. I'm glad to see people still showing some love for this wonderful game.
Wow now this would be cool project to see completed. I have been playing the remastered version and I am a bit disappointed that they didn't take some creative points like you have mentioned in the video, especially the loading screen and still a bit clunky lol cant wait to see your final product here.
Dude I just had the idea for this and came to TH-cam to see if anyone else has already done it and you beat me to it!
Restarted Anniversary the other day and noticed just how huge the environment is outside the playable area so I'm so pumped for this. Fable is a much bigger game physically than I remembered so seeing it all flow together will be awesome.
They did a lot of tricks to make the region's seem larger than they were! Really cool! I'm working on the script for episode 3 now, but I will be moving states soon, so I will do a video during my time out that is easier to make just showing how current regions connect. That's the plan anyways lol
Great to see somebody else is working on this (albeit as a mod for Oblivion/Skyrim), although you seem to be making much quicker progress than I've managed to! Look forward to seeing more.
I would love to see the Fable maps modded in to Elder Scrolls lol. What area did/are you bringing in first?
To be fair, I spent almost a month and a half with the sole focus of trying to figure out how to do this as fast as possible. It will be much slower after the MVP as I will be doing more environment building by hand. There are things that is frustrating by doing it how I do it right now lol
this genuinely looks pretty amazing!! was looking for what my favourite game would like with today's graphics, this seems amazing!
Thank you! I'm excited to share my progress that I have made in the last 2 weeks, as well as the 2 weeks coming up! The project is looking good :)
@@Level_reDesign excited to see how this shapes up! :)
i wanna be able to free roam in this game too add swimming too would be cool, keep this project going, been playing a lot of anniversary lately and I cant wait to see this project tranform this beloved game into a whole nother type of experience
The return of Chicken Chaser!
OMG FABLE🤯 this looks awesome. I hope fable 4 wont be a disappointment but at least we got this until then. I'll follow your progress and i can't wait for the next video!
Yeah, I think Playground is Microsoft's most talented studio, so I think it will be good at the very least because it seems Playground refuses to release anything mediocre for the target audience.
It may not live up to Fable 1, but I think it will be great regardless.
If I had to pick a team to make Fable, I would either choose Playground games or Double Fine because of how simply amazing Psychonauts 2 was
@@Level_reDesign agreed! Psychonauts 2 was super nice as well. and I'm just happy we get a 4th fable in the first place so I'm looking forward to that.
Huge respect for you for this
Simply amazing! This is what the fans need!
Would be sick if you could share all those assets with the community. Fable deserves a lot of love. Great work!
I'm not against the idea as these assets are publicly available, all I would do is save time. However, looking back, I wish I would have exported individual assets and recreate the regions (rather than exporting a whole level).
I am actually writing a video script right now where I call this my biggest mistake/regret for the project lol
@@Level_reDesign I have to second his opinion. That would be so awesome.
looks amazing!
Well count me as interested and subscribed. I'm definitely going to keep an eye on this as this was one of my favorite games.
Dude it looks so good! Awesome job!
Damn!!! This is amazing!!
It's amazing I'll be keeping my eye on this. Subbed
Hero….. you are amazing! Keep it up
Dear Avo I hope you finish this. It looks awesome
Gives me the vibes of "Fine, I'll make it my own damn self" lol
I honestly would love to play with those models. I may have to get the anniversary edition now.
It's crazy beautifull work
Honestly it absolutely blows my mind Xbox hasn’t done a full remake of this game. It’s legendary and it would sell so well. Instead we’re getting a full reboot of the franchise 😢
Wooooooooow!!!
Nice work Ur skilled
Inspiring :)
I subscribed
"shut up and take my money"
nice!
Wait, you won't be releasing this? But but... Please?
Finish soon
I'm doing my best 😂
I love you
What pc specs do you have and how is ue5 in performance terms compared to ue4?
I have a decent build. Ryzen 2700x with a RTX 3060 and the project is on an NVME SSD. Funny story with that. I had a very outdated GPU because of the shortage. I had a 960 still. I ran into an issue where I hit my VRAM limit in the editor on this project with the 2 GB that card had. So, I bought a 3060 that day from Best Buy with 12 GB of VRAM. You don't need that much, especially if you are not doing an open world game.
As far as performance, in editor doesn't seem to be any slower or faster, but the application can run a bit faster than UE4 is seems. I don't know the full benefits of UE5's optimizations yet though due to not being far enough into the project. Once I have more active systems, lights, dynamic object animations, and AI in the project, we will be able to see better how performance is in UE5 over UE4.
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Do you plan on recreating Fable 2 next?
Fable 2 deserves a remake so much, But I am going to pass on that myself personally. I am also making a Fable city builder game that has a lot of neat ideas and potential.
After these are done, I will either do one more remake of a PS1 Licensed game (the game is a cult classic), or I will make a kids game. We need more good games for little kids. I wanted to make a Bluey game, but that was just announced by another studio lol
i miss fable
any new updates? would love to see more of this
Yeah, I have a lot of people hyped for the next part, and it brings the views in for sure lol. I put the project on a temporary pause to work on a Fable City Builder. But don't worry, I am coming back to this UE5 project; it is not being cancelled! I may even work on both at the same time so people don't get upset over the UE5 pause lol
@@Level_reDesign Not sure if you have one yet but maybe you should make a Patreon, would love to donate to helpt the cause!
@@byronvalencia1462 I actually have a Patreon page ready to go live, but I don't want to make it active right now. All funds would go towards my projects, not a dime would go in my pocket. But I want to make sure the support would be there first to justify it. I have had numerous people ask about this though
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I love fable so how would I get into doing this. What type of pc would I need, because a 2023-2024 edition would be so awesome.
Do you mean doing this are far as 3D game development, or as in the specs required to play the project? The specs for the project have not been optimized very much at all yet.
For my dev PC, I have a Ryzen 7 2700x, 32 GB RAM, and an RTX 3060. I'm upgrading my PC this year though lol
yesssssss
Can you make the file available to download? Specifically Hero’s Guild
if the public demo won't be available, can you at least show the gameplay of some sort after you finish the project?
Yep, I will do a long play show case of the game showing off everything I made for the proof of concept at the very least before moving onto my next major side project
I wish you would do Jade empire
Is this available for the public? Can i download this somewhere?
Could you retexture the evil version of the character to look more like a demon
I think I will eventually completely replace or update the model for the hero character because I think the anniversary model is kind of ugly and prefer the visual style of the Lost Chapters hero (although it is "higher quality"). While doing that, I will probably look at updating the pure and evil visuals. I think something cool would be is if certain "evil" or "good" body effects were locked behind tasks. Like, what if you could only get fallen angel wings if you were fully good, and became fully evil. I'm not sure if any of this is feasible yet though because of the possible implications it could cause with animation work. I need to do more research when I get to that point
However, I don't plan to until at least the MVP is done, so this would probably be a few months from now at the earliest!
@@Level_reDesign that sounds like a great idea please make it as dark as possible as well for example dark wood forest I wish the Hobbes looked more gruesome as well same with balverines and trolls undead ect id love to see it more scary than what anniversary did I was really let down by the way everything looked
If you could make all the houses for sale throughout the game instead of having to kill or marry everyone that would be great
@@Level_reDesign oh and knothole Glade make the area really rainy like a constant down pour p.s. make the arena replay able and add all the different mini games at the bars inside the arena barracks
@@albow6492 this is funny because the real estate feature you asked about is something that I mentioned earlier in a discord group with solution that I am 100% doing. Having to kill people to buy property goes against the core design of Fable. But my solution is pretty cool and unique I think ;) it is a secret for now though lol
wtf only 77 subscribe, you got mine
What about visuals?
Great question since I am using a lot of Fable assets currently. Trust me, the visual updates have not even really started! Here is the plan:
1st, I will be replacing the sky and have a better skylight system when I get a day night system in. That will probably be the first update I make. This will also have a weather system with it
2nd, I am fully replacing many of the outdated models in the environment. This is what I mentioned in the video with the trees, rock, and foliage meshes. I may do more as well, but that is the minimum.
3rd, I will be upscaling all of the textures up to 4k with AI. I have already tested this with some textures about a month ago, and it is a crazy big improvement. I will also replace some textures that are a bit more generic all together. I actually used super high quality textures already on the terrain.
Lastly (for right this moment) I will update the lighting and see if I can get a better lighting result than Anniversary had.
i am curious as to how you managed to get the ground to actually export properly since i cant get it to export with textures at all
I just repainted the entire ground meshes in engine. Something else though that I don't know if I mentioned in the video, but the normals were reversed in the export as well
@@Level_reDesign i saw that in a comment
thanks by the way for being the first person to give me information on this as ive been trying to work with fable tlcs heightmaps which are incomplete (the only ones i could find didnt include darkwood hook coast or the northern wastes) wasnt til your video i learned i could export the entire scene as an obj
Would you be willing to give out the fable object files you collected?
While not necessarily against the idea, I will be changing the way I get assets for all regions after the MVP in order to help save project space and resources. The way I did it is faster (which is important for a prototype or MVP), but it is not optimal at all for the project.
I will be making this change as I start on the Greatwood regions. I may do a video on this during my move in December to show better what I am talking about. We will see
@@Level_reDesign not sure if you ever resolved the game sound issue but would 100% be willing to spend 6 hours labeling and organizing game sound files in exchange for your ripped assets. Been playing a lot of fable recently and want to build some levels in unity lol.
Take all my money! And my wife
i would love to see a fable 2 remake i dont want to play that on the xbox or emulator let me buy the game
Oooo shit
Where to support financially?
That is very generous of you! :) However, I'm not currently looking for financial support from anyone right now. I don't have many people caring right now to the point that it doesn't really make a difference, but also, I want to be sure I am in a position to deliver content at a quality level that would deserve donations first!
If this channel grows, I will consider it though! Thanks again for asking! You are like the 3rd person to ask :)
Is this still a current project of yours ?
Sure is! I just added in the quest and dialogue system, and am setting up the Starter Oakvale mission currently! Expect to see that on my next update :)
500 hours is unrealistic. it will be more
You know, you were right, but what is actually taking the longest is making player combat and AI (Neither of which I have a lot of experience in). I saved a crazy amount of hours from getting to reuse art though lol
@@Level_reDesign Fable was one of my favorite game. Truly an organic piece of art. Good luck in your project😀
Can I have the files?
I'm not against giving the files out, as anyone can do it. So I'm just saving time for people (opposed to giving out resources that should be inaccessible. However, there are a few issues. I didn't export them in the most future proof way, which would have been to do the assets one by one and rebuild the levels. Also, size is an issue for deployment to people because of the way I did it, I don't want to pay to have enough space on Google Drive to let people download them.
With that being said, I do have a video about how to get the files from Fable Anniversary, and it isn't very difficult. Just a little time consuming.
Dude no use the original fable main characters model not the ugly ass anniversary one
You know, I actually completely agree that the one thing I dislike more about the anniversary version than anything else is the main character design. The issue though is animations and rigging. I can not get any of the animations from the TLC, and since there are 700 animations for the main character, it just isn't possible for me to make those by hand.
Rigging the model from TLC to work with those animations from FA is also a big issue because pulling a skeletal mesh from TLC is extremely difficult. I got the static meshes, but skeletal meshes are a whole different game.
After I finish the first hour of the game for my MVP, I will start looking into remaking the character though to see how heavy that task would be
If this doesn't get cease and desisted... it'll be incredible.
Сhicken chaser - do you chase chickens ?