It's getting there, Maybe change the illum tint, fix the uv's on the fronds, lower the bump a bit?

Anyone have any advice on the tentacles' smoothing?

Pretty sure the illum is fine as is, h2 never really tinted illum as far as i know, they just used color data in the texture itself, so if it was white, its probably white lol. Bump coefficient should always be 1, doesnt really look too strong imo, all of h2's bump maps are pretty apparent anyway.

As for the smoothing, did you weld/optimize the model yet? If so, just use a smoothing group of 1, heck you could use smoothing group 1 on the entire model, its pretty much all round geometry. But welding/optimizing will get rid of sharp edges where the faces meet for the most part.
Edited by waffles on Sep 29, 2012 at 09:15 PM

Yes, If i hadn't there wouldn't be any smoothing at all. I think I used auto smooth for this model, but manually gave the tentacles there own group. I might try unifying the smoothing groups to 1.

EDIT: if there were no illums, what was the flood_infection_light texture for? CC?
Edited by ptowery on Sep 29, 2012 at 09:20 PM

Improved it a bit.

can the cape function as an antenna? just set the marker upside-down.

Or a .flag with a heavier .point_physics file?
...Ima experiment with this.
Edited by vampire_girl on Sep 30, 2012 at 07:21 AM

lol thats not what i meant, sorry. I was saying that the color doesnt really need to be changed, the light texture is just an illum texture.

Batman is taller than a Spartan who is taller than a human.



Didn't read properly, my fault. Right now it's using stock flood illum/tint without the cosine; Just as a placeholder.
I don't know if this is a beta shot or some perm, but It looks like it has no normal mapping.

And relies heavily on selfillum? It has about the same tint as the other halo 2 shot, but not as the albedo map.
Edited by ptowery on Sep 30, 2012 at 12:58 PM
Edited by ptowery on Sep 30, 2012 at 12:59 PM


Just realized the other halo 2 shot was from h2v, but the xbox maps have the normals in the map files, maybe it's unused?
Edited by ptowery on Sep 30, 2012 at 01:02 PM

Ah, might be a beta image, dunno, cant remember what it looked like on h2x, i only own h2v right now, if you can get a good reference from h2x go with that to get the shaders to look right. If your using entity, you can look at the shader meta data to get color values/detail scaling and such.

I have been..

Inconclusive.
It also kind of looks like how halo's stock infection form uses cube maps, but there's no cube maps in either h2x or h2v shaders.

Use the other editor mode, double click on the shader tag, youll get way more information than with the UI version above ^

h2 sparsely used cubemaps on dynamic objects, due to specular lighting being introduced into the game.

Well only when he's upright. The scale is essentially the same.

Batman is tall.

Too buff,LOL.

Suggestion: Make the cape a flag that attaches to two markers, one at each side. And give it physics that don't allow it to pass through models of bipeds\scenery\vehicles\ect, and make it so that it can't pass through structures either. Lol. Anyway, just a suggestion.
Edited by grunt_eater on Oct 1, 2012 at 11:53 PM

Anyone got a Grunt (Mass effect series) 3d model? I don't really care if it's raw or not. I just can't find one and would appreciate it if I could get one. Textures too. I don't have the game, I just think it would be cool to work with.

Mass Effect meshes
http://www.mediafire.com/?ksqhqom9qdzpzw3
Edited by Maniac1000 on Oct 7, 2012 at 09:34 PM

Thank you so much.

Just what I needed.

unwrapping the elite. I cant bump the elite project thread -.-.

model by yoko + grunts

Gotta fix the hands and teeth yet. The chest is like that because is the symmetry modifier.
It will be fine as it is for texturing though. The seams I have tried to place under the armor or in places
People won't pay that much attention too. I.e inside of legs.
Edited by Cheddars on Oct 12, 2012 at 06:20 AM

No need to talk/flame abut this, I think Dennis will fix that soon.

Your not the first and I have the feeling you won't be the last -.-.

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Edited by Dennis on Oct 13, 2012 at 10:51 PM

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Edited by Dennis on Oct 13, 2012 at 10:51 PM

lmao

Oh god not another quote chain, this entire forum as a whole is immature.


If you don't like it, just ignore it. Jesus.
Edited by ptowery on Oct 12, 2012 at 04:56 PM

wait so is batman rigged like can you be batman?

Wait, Bourrin is an archer? Awesome. Bourrin has gained respect. Altheros has lost respect for trying to make it an insult. Archery is awesome. Nothing bad about being able to fire arrows at targets.... such as Altheros.

It sure is (because it was rigged to original masterchief boneset).

Just ignore him all he want's is attention.

I'M BATMAN.
*WACKS ELITE*
DAMN.I'M WEAK.
*GETS WACKED*
UGH,I'M DEAD.
*dies*
LOL,let's play as BATMAN!!!!

NO.

Joker biped next please, he laughs when he gets shot and say's "Why so serious" when you kill him.

I think I'll make the dialogue tags.

Hey is it sort of like putting nodes on a vehicle or really complicated any way batman looks great



hey is _altheros FMT masterchief? and if so why not ban his IP it says somewhere on teh forums that dennis dose that

Placing nodes are rather easy, in 3DS at least.
FMT and Altheros are the same person.
IP Bans are easily worked around, either by dynamic IP's, proxy's, or just hiding your IP, pretty basic stuff.
That answers all your questions.

yeah i get that placing nodes is easy but i am saying is it the same with rigging like can i import a master chief and rig up a model and are all the different limbs supposed to be models like i have tried looking for a tutorial but the only one i can find is tehlags and it isn't very well comprehendible


also are you sure that FMT is smart enough to proxy i mean he spends his time annoying people on a forum which he bags its like saying i hate this sport and then going to every event to do with it