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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Black Wolf on September 18, 2003, 03:50:01 am

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Black Wolf on September 18, 2003, 03:50:01 am

'Twas a tossup between here and FS modding as to where I should post this. Anyway, I'm sure any of you arty people who've also delved into FRED from time to time will haave noticed tht there are only 5 command heads (Discounting the good Admiral of course, and the Two Vasudan heads) that we can use to represent every ship in the FS universe, and that includes civillians, pirates etc. etc.
, one of whom is the very recognizeable Terran Command Guy.

What I was hoping was that some of you poser people would be able to at least attempt to rectify this with a few more faces. Ideally you'd have 10 or 20 so you'd almost never have to repeat in a campaign, but that's obviously pushing it. What would be a good starting point however would be a few more GTVA captains and at least two or three civilillian heads to break up the repetiveness. I don;t know how much work would be involved in this, but if anyone's willing to try, I'm sure there'd be a lot of thankful FREDders out there.

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Flipside on September 18, 2003, 12:25:31 pm

<--------- Has Poser 5

I'll look into it, but the hard part will actually be creating the models in the first place, since using the Box Standard one would start to look a bit obvious after a while :)

Flipside :D

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Black Wolf on September 20, 2003, 10:29:47 am

Doh! Missed the reply.

Err, awesome :) No rush though. In fact, if you could even just do a single civillian one any time before OR comes out I'd be more than happy :)

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Flipside on September 20, 2003, 10:40:14 am

This can be done, actually, with poser 5, the hardest part is the background!

Flipside :D

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Black Wolf on September 20, 2003, 11:05:58 am

You could go the Admiral bosch way and put him against what looks like a really high contrast TCov7 or something, but I think maybe we can do aa little better - gimme a few hours, I'll see what I can cook up.

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Woomeister on September 20, 2003, 11:15:02 am

One I made for Inferno:
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/inferno/INFMCommand1.jpg)
Poser 4 used there.

The background is the Antares bridge set from Renderosity freestuff section.
I can't animate in poser so mine are just stills for now...

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Black Wolf on September 20, 2003, 12:06:13 pm

Hmm. It seems I've made a bit of a discovery. Since these are only fairly small images when they come out (180x120) you can use a detail of a larger pic to get a moderatley cool, sc i fi looking BG.

Images sto...borrowed from here (http://www.lcstages.com/bridge.html) btw.

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Flipside on September 20, 2003, 01:30:34 pm

Ok, Well, I just figured out animation and Lip-Sync stuff for Poser 5, so I'll get working on a sample thingy tonight :)

Flipside :D

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Black Wolf on September 20, 2003, 01:46:02 pm

Just out of curiosity Flip, is there anything you don't know how to do? ;)

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Flipside on September 20, 2003, 02:41:49 pm

Dance ;)

http://www.aqsx85.dsl.pipex.com/Anims/CivTalkA.ani

Just a test render, but here you go :D I'll work on the facial expression and making his head not look like it's on a pole ;) Oh yes, and the Eminem hair will HAVE to go, as soon as I figure out how........

EDIT : Come to think of it, he wouldn't look out of place as a Vulcan ;)

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Flipside on September 20, 2003, 10:03:28 pm

Ok, this is a double post.....

http://www.aqsx85.dsl.pipex.com/Anims/CivPilot1.ani

This is work on a Civilian Pilot, still got to try and do that suit though..... Errrrgh :(

Flipside :D

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: StratComm on September 20, 2003, 11:16:01 pm

Is there a limit on those head boxes?

If not I'll see about whipping up some good capship head backgrounds.  I'm hopeless on the actual head, but I can definately make some bridge environments for them.

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Flipside on September 21, 2003, 12:37:26 pm

The only limits to the backgrounds is that they are B&W and that they are 160 x 120 in size :)

Flipside :D

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: TheCelestialOne on September 21, 2003, 01:59:51 pm

Here, I made one that kinda looks like Bosch with his hat and stuff:

Click here to d/l (http://www.swooh.com/peon/Tiara/TCO/genani_byTCO.ani)

:)

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Knight Templar on September 21, 2003, 02:32:58 pm

The glasses and the slow movement make him look blind. ;)

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Taristin on September 21, 2003, 02:46:10 pm

You know, those actually aren;t bad... I may try the character animator in TS one day...

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: kode on September 21, 2003, 02:55:52 pm

what program do I need to view it?

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Knight Templar on September 21, 2003, 03:00:33 pm

Aniview..?

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: kode on September 21, 2003, 03:31:48 pm

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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Aniview..?

so where can I find that, then? and don't point me to any file planet link.

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Flipside on September 21, 2003, 03:50:28 pm

You need the Descent Manager tools, available right here.....

http://www.3dap.com/hlp/freespace/downloads.shtml

Flipside :D

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: kode on September 21, 2003, 04:03:53 pm

but I have the descent manager tools already. or vpview at least.

and I also said "no fileplanet".

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Knight Templar on September 21, 2003, 04:30:58 pm

Well good luck then..

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: kode on September 21, 2003, 05:15:59 pm

kudos to descent-network.
no kudos to you guys.

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Flipside on September 21, 2003, 05:41:24 pm

LOL

I got more Kudos than I know what to do with anyway :)

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Knight Templar on September 21, 2003, 05:42:06 pm

Anyways..

Does poser come with a set of heads or did you guys make those yourself?

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Flipside on September 21, 2003, 05:44:07 pm

Poser 5 lets you randomise features on the standard model, so you have more or less infinite supplies :)

Flipside :D

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: kode on September 21, 2003, 05:47:13 pm

anyways, on TCO's ani...
it looks pretty good, but I don't think he looks that much like bosch. could be the hat, perhaps.

Title: Anyone with Poser/Poser skills?
Post by: Knight Templar on September 21, 2003, 05:51:36 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Flipside
Poser 5 lets you randomise features on the standard model, so you have more or less infinite supplies :)

Flipside :D

Well.. looks like I'll go have to find a .. magazine... with a shareware... version on it...