Dusty's Corner of the Forums [Upcoming: Staves and Psiblades!]

[Legacy_dusty.lane]

               I figured I would stop creating new topics, as they all seem to be for the same purpose. So here I made my own lil' corner, where I can showcase my newest stuff. I am sure there are better solutions to this, but my general inactivity of actually viewing anything but the CCC threads most of the time, I probably just don't know about it if it is there.

Lower posts contain different things, I don't modify the main post except to change the topic title. (And this.) So if you are confused, just scroll down!

So let's get started! My lovely friend; Johnny, plays a game called Heroes of Newerth, now I have no clue about anything in this game, but he enjoys it, and has an alternative avatar for a character I only know as 'Lust' and, you can probably figure the theme.. She has big boobies... Anyways, she has a staff, and I said I would model it since it seemed a tad cutesie and a nice challenge. Now, since I haven't played this game, it is LOOSELY based off of the staff. Model done in about 3 hours in 3dsmax, textured in zbrush, and uv repaired in 3dsmax by hand after zbrush botched it.


Here they are at night:

Here they are during the day:

Also here's a somewhat unnecessary link to the staff while I still had it in zbrush: img89.imageshack.us/img89/1730/staff6g.jpg

It runs in at about 2.5k polys, unfortunately. But no biggy, right?!

Hope you like! I'll be releasing them sometime soon probably maybe! If any of you have any ideas on how to prevent a massive image rape on your browser that can eventually happen, any ideas would be welcome! Feedback on the staves would also be nice!
               
               

               

                     Modifié par dusty.lane, 30 janvier 2014 - 07:33 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Pearls]

               you can remove the word loosely since it looks even better than the original, thats awesome
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_dusty.lane]

               Oh.. '> Why thank you, but it's still loosely based on it! My mind can only think 3D now, so I am starting work on my next project now. It's a surprise, but it may or may not be a helmet!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Fester Pot]

               Ever see the animated movie 9? (not the musical!)

A staff one of the characters carries along with them, has a lightbulb as its light source. Very original for a staff.

I've always liked the idea, so I'm just passing it along.

FP!
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Fester Pot, 04 novembre 2012 - 03:06 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_dusty.lane]

               I didn't know there was a musical! But yeah I've seen it, I totally forgot about that staff thing though. '> I like it, I may have to make that eventually. XD
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_dusty.lane]

               After a god awful unholy horrendous insane amount of errors, mistakes, and general aggrivation; including having to COMPLETELY retexture it from scratch, I present to you, THE GAS MASK!

And just because I felt like pumping out the pitch black must-have screenshot, I tested on my character on an undisclosed server (totally caught someone in the picture) of whom abuses the color 'pitch black'. But I just had to see how it would actually look on a real character.

I am frankly, glad that this project is nearing an end. I have icons to do, and I need to actually fix up the hooded version to use less polygons.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par dusty.lane, 10 novembre 2012 - 11:04 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_henesua]

               blackalicious!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_OldTimeRadio]

               Very nice, Dusty!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_NWN_baba yaga]

               very cool looking... reminds me of Greedo from Star wars a little bit;)
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_s e n]

               I like the model, but the texture looks a bit too "cloudy", not sure what type of material should be made of a gas mask in a steampunk setting, but I think some special gummy stuff or leather, adding some detail to the texture would make the model VERY nice '>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_dusty.lane]

               @s e n,
Well, that might be because of how it was done. I accidentally made it 2048x2048 when I exported the texturework from zbrush, had to tone it down to 512x512, I figured it looked out of place with all the other nwn stuff, so I did some work, still didn't look right, so I figured it was maybe a detail thing so I toned it down to 256x256, and I guess it just made it look cloudy. Any tips on that, perhaps? To get the higher res texture to not look horrendously out of place next to normal NWN.

Edit: I will be tossing it back up to 512x512, and making my changes to the larger image now.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par dusty.lane, 07 novembre 2012 - 06:53 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_henesua]

               For what it is worth, dusty, i think the texture is close to being just fine. It looks like very soft leather. I think if you take the texture and try an overlay for darkening certain spots with sharper edges suggestive of seams and stitching you'll have a very convincing leather fabric.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par henesua, 07 novembre 2012 - 07:02 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_dusty.lane]

               @henesua,
Thanks, but I think I may have fixed the issue of the higher res looking so out of place.
Tell me what you all think so far, I am still tweaking, I want a few more things to pop, while I like others how they are. Good thing this is in layers!

Edit: I fixed a few seam issues as well in the latest, but I just realized I made one on the back of the head really noticable. Well, I am going to take another break, wait for feedback, fix the seams later. I've hit a lot more issues than I thought I ever would on a project. Staff was simple, very minor seam issues, that I mostly fixed, and uv placement was wonky. Gas mask? Oho, countless problems!
               
               

               

                     Modifié par dusty.lane, 10 novembre 2012 - 11:04 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_dusty.lane]

               I tried my hand at a big honking weapon again, much like my terrible greataxe, but I think I met with a lot more success this time. I only have the simple generic steel version thus far, still contemplating on what else I can do. But here it is so far:

I call it the B.F.S. =D Or fullblade works too, but I don't think that's supposed to be what fullblades are like, but who gives a damn?! Feedback, suggestions, that sort of stuff. I do listen to you folks, probably more than you realize!

And Edit:

A close-up of the chain, sort of.. Best I could get.

Super Edit: I have OCD, I put all the images into quotes. Hur.. Anyways, I forgot to mention, sitting at 2180 polys/tris, it most certainly crashes NWN when I try to render a shadow on it. For that reason, I am working on low poly shadow casting invisible objects. P.S. it's mostly the chain, which is the poly-hog, good lord chains are hard to model efficiently.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par dusty.lane, 10 novembre 2012 - 11:07 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_henesua]

               I wonder if the chain would look nearly as good as two planes intersecting at right angles and textured with a chain. that could cut the chain down to 4 triangles.

that chain does look good though. '>
               
               

               

                     Modifié par henesua, 10 novembre 2012 - 12:03 .