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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: TrashMan on October 02, 2008, 01:14:20 pm

Title: Remeber This?
Post by: TrashMan on October 02, 2008, 01:14:20 pm
(http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/3211/demonbh9.th.jpg) (http://img516.imageshack.us/my.php?image=demonbh9.jpg)(http://img516.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

Just to remind you folks that it's till semi-alive.

I got irritated today and started to texture the thing a bit, but as you can see, it's not going very well. Some of the Stock Demon textures are awful.

So just a reminder to texture artists out there, that if they have the time and will, they might want to take a shot at making something.
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: Cobra on October 02, 2008, 03:00:19 pm
/me squeals with glee

IT'S ALIVE!
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: Commander Zane on October 02, 2008, 03:32:31 pm
Hell yeah, that's nice.
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: Mobius on October 02, 2008, 03:37:51 pm
:yes:

Can you improve it even more, please? It's cool but a bit incomplete, IMO.
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: TrashMan on October 02, 2008, 03:48:30 pm
I probably can...There a few places I can do more efficiently.

Now if you ask if I'll smooth it out out - then no. It's already smoother than the stock Demon and I want that rigid look to remain.

Now I only filddled a little with it (evident by the lack of UV maping on many a faces) to take my mind off other things.
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: Mobius on October 03, 2008, 12:39:10 pm
But are you well aware of the fact that keeping such a rigid look will almost overwrite the other improvements? It also gives the impression of something incomplete.
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: Snail on October 03, 2008, 12:41:05 pm
But are you well aware of the fact that keeping such a rigid look will almost overwrite the other improvements? It also gives the impression of something incomplete.
Agreed.
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: TrashMan on October 03, 2008, 01:43:30 pm
But are you well aware of the fact that keeping such a rigid look will almost overwrite the other improvements? It also gives the impression of something incomplete.

I tried a smooth Demon.. it looked...ugh..not like a demon at all.
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: Hellstryker on October 03, 2008, 02:07:49 pm
But are you well aware of the fact that keeping such a rigid look will almost overwrite the other improvements? It also gives the impression of something incomplete.

I tried a smooth Demon.. it looked...ugh..not like a demon at all.

Let's see it.
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: Aardwolf on October 03, 2008, 04:00:41 pm
One thing I noticed... the front side of the 'rib'-like thing on the far right in that screenshot (the ribcage of the demon, if you will) looks too regular and rectangular...
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: 0rph3u5 on October 03, 2008, 04:30:35 pm
Boys, I could die happy now ....

NO WAIT! I can die happy once this is finished!
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: Mobius on October 05, 2008, 10:07:57 am
Boys, I could die happy now ....

NO WAIT! I can die happy once this is finished!

This is just a Demon...don't die for such an ugly ship... :P
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: TrashMan on October 05, 2008, 10:35:41 am
Don't have the smoother version anymore. Have no idea what happened to it. At least I can't find it.

It's not a problem to make a mock-up tough .Smooth Quad divide and so...


Oh, if you fear this will never get done I may have some good news. With COTS nearing completion I finally may have some more time to work on this some more. And maybe that Concept Art Collie.
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: Mobius on October 05, 2008, 10:41:13 am
Good, good...I'm looking forward to all of your WIPs :yes:
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: Galemp on October 05, 2008, 11:53:40 am
The black and red areas with the exposed 'guts' can take a LOT more greebling. I'm talking about the scale of VA's Hades or BrandX's Star Destroyer. I would really want there to be significant tech piping and stuff under that armored shell and between those ribs.
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: TrashMan on October 05, 2008, 12:28:38 pm
True...those can all be done as separate objects..good for detail boxes or LODing.
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: Getter Robo G on October 05, 2008, 01:25:18 pm
Boys, I could die happy now ....

NO WAIT! I can die happy once this is finished!


Don't die for DEMONS, die for the LORD.

Or at least the TERRAN EMPIRE!
... :nervous:

 Don't look at me like that, you know it's gonna happen someday...
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: Bobboau on October 05, 2008, 11:26:03 pm
here is a thought, what if you had a ridge running down the center of each of the ribs, just a little lump that went along there length.
Title: Re: Remeber This?
Post by: TrashMan on October 06, 2008, 03:51:34 am
I was thinking something similar... something like BGS grebling...almost like a spine, but connecting each of the ares to the center, running over that black part.