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Legacy_Rolo Kipp

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« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2012, 01:07:35 am »


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Did you look at PetPak 3a by Finniska & Nitocris / Slink? I thought those cats were nicer than House Cats v.1. Just visually. Haven't looked at anims, but I assume they supermodel the panther.

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« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2012, 01:35:49 am »


               Yeah I did, but I thought the opposite. I didn't like the cats in PetPak. But then... I may have approached this in the wrong way. Close up the petpak cats look fairly poor in my opinion. But at a normal distance on screen they might be just right. Perhaps, I'm zooming in too much. Because at a distance, the house cats I have are tiny. You can't see the nice texture work they did for them.
               
               

               
            

Legacy_Rolo Kipp

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« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2012, 01:56:17 am »


               <laughing...>

Lol, and I didn't zoom in, so I have no idea about the finer points :-P
Mostly I liked the variety. And the manx/lynx. Heh.

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« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2012, 03:29:10 am »


               The Siamese cat  Pstmarie posted earlier does have a flaw in it, which is the bone count in the skin mesh. If I remember right it has 18 bones and normally NWN allows only 17. I never saw any adverse effects testing it but that possibility may occur.

I am not sure scaling a skin mesh model is as easy as scaling a model which does not contain one but I am unsure as I have been away for a while and can't quite remember. Maybe Pstemarie can provide more info on this.
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« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2012, 09:12:56 am »


               

henesua wrote...

Tiberius, I know about that frog but was under the impression that it was a GIANT frog. '<img'>


Could just use the same method to scale it down? '<img'>

Baba's is the best frog out there, I'm just not sure how many animations have been completed on it yet though

cervantes35 wrote...
I am not sure scaling a skin mesh model
is as easy as scaling a model which does not contain one but I am
unsure as I have been away for a while and can't quite remember. Maybe
Pstemarie can provide more info on this.
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They do scale a bit differently. I know I had a fair bit of fun trying to get it to work on an old Oni I was working on from the updated Ogre
               
               

               


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« Reply #20 on: January 24, 2012, 11:28:21 am »


                I've been using one of the model scalers that Wyldhunt linked above. I've already got the .NET framework running on my machine so it was very simple.

I scaled up 2x those cats that were too small, and scaled down a couple of Baba Yaga's spiders to 30%. I found no problems in either incidence. Yet another tool that saves me from learning 3DS max. '<img'>

And Cervantes - I'm using your siamese cat without scaling it. Its just the right size.
               
               

               


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