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My dear colleagues,

i hope i haven´t overseen it but i would like to ask if anyone is currently working on a high poly version of the Demon?
I found one older topic here but the model never was released it seems.
« Last Edit: December 23, 2013, 02:47:45 am by Lc4Hunter »

 

Offline Hades

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Re: SD Demon [anyone on it?]
No one is currently working on a Demon, as far as I know. The last person was peterv, but he's went AWOL a couple of years ago, so the Demon is basically open.
[22:29] <sigtau> Hello, #hard-light?  I'm trying to tell a girl she looks really good for someone who doesn't exercise.  How do I word that non-offensively?
[22:29] <RangerKarl|AtWork> "you look like a big tasty muffin"
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<batwota> wouldn’t that mean that it’s prepared to kiss your ass if you flank it :p
<batwota> wow
<batwota> KILL

 
Re: SD Demon [WIP] - concept phase!
Good to know.
Then i will start a try to make her a bit more pretty... oh wait... i mean scarry of course  :p

Does anyone have some conceptarts or stuff like that for me?
I still have some ideas for the Demon but if you also have good ideas and wishes... let me know  :)

 

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Re: SD Demon [anyone on it?]
Hmm. Well, one piece of "advice" I have is that I've always seen the Demon's "head" as being like a centurion or spartan's helmet, kind of like how the Seraphim's main body is vaguely-helmet shaped. IDK if that helps, it's just this idea that's been lying around in my head for ages.

 

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Re: SD Demon [WIP] - concept phase!
BrotherBryon was working on a Demon, iirc.
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Re: SD Demon [WIP] - concept phase!
Hmm. Well, one piece of "advice" I have is that I've always seen the Demon's "head" as being like a centurion or spartan's helmet, kind of like how the Seraphim's main body is vaguely-helmet shaped. IDK if that helps, it's just this idea that's been lying around in my head for ages.
That triangular-shaped head is also shared by the Lucy and the Cain/Lilith. Probably a good idea to keep the styles similar there.
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Re: SD Demon [WIP] - concept phase!
BrotherBryon was working on a Demon, iirc.

Correct, I've resumed work on it but it is still in the early stages so nothing worth showing just yet.
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Re: SD Demon [WIP] - concept phase!
I believe that the first person to attempt one was TrashMan, but his work was lost in a hard-drive failure, IIRC.  I had suggested to him to add some degree of cresting to each angle change on the upper head, and some overhang to each angle change down each side, with a glow applied to the overhang.
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Re: SD Demon [WIP] - concept phase!

Started with the head of the Demon... i like the idea Trashmans model had with the "plates" at the top so i tried to redo them on my model.
Currently i´m not really happy with that. Plates need to be smoother for example.

 

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Superb job with the beginning head shape! I personally don't like the head "plates', but you've integrated them into the shape pretty nicely.  :yes:

 

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I would suggest making the scales on the head either extend all the way to the sides on it or remove it, right now it looks like a mow-hawk and I'm not sure I'm ready for an SD Mr. T
[22:29] <sigtau> Hello, #hard-light?  I'm trying to tell a girl she looks really good for someone who doesn't exercise.  How do I word that non-offensively?
[22:29] <RangerKarl|AtWork> "you look like a big tasty muffin"
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<batwota> wouldn’t that mean that it’s prepared to kiss your ass if you flank it :p
<batwota> wow
<batwota> KILL

 

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I pity 'dhe foo', who makes fun of tha' ship!

I sorta think maybe you could try to make them less obvious? Try making them less tall so they blend in subtly with the rest of the head. Its a cool detail though.

My 2 Cents.

 
I removed them for now ;-)
I will continue making the main-mesh before thinking again of things like that.
Don´t care about the grey thing, thats just the original mesh with a few rounds meshsmooth on it.
Wanted to try something and how you see it looks terrible  :nervous:  :rolleyes:


Next days i will have some more free time for the Mad Demon :p

 

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Looks good! Am I the only person seeing the gray and white differences?
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Looks good! Am I the only person seeing the gray and white differences?
Don´t care about the grey thing, thats just the original mesh with a few rounds meshsmooth on it.
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Needs to be pointier!

I'm dying to see how you'll handle the engine area, it's shaping up nicely.

 

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Make that spine "ribbed" and angular. Beef it up a little. Make it pointy. If not, try something similar to the Rakshasa's details.

 

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The head looks like Legion :D. Great stuff man, keep it up like that and I can already see a bright medium term future where all canon FS2 ships are "HTL'd".


 
Thanks a lot ;-)
But... don´t you think Legion looks maybe like a Demon, and the other way  :lol: ?
Had a lot other things to do the last weeks (work/christmans/a few days holiday/my EA Warlock :D and some other things in this strange state of consciousness called reallife) but i will continue work on the Iceni and the Demon, but i thought i´ve found someone else on p3d who also works on a Demon which looks much more f*cking awesome then my version.
Currently i can´t give the link because im at work and p3d isn´t working on this PCs.