Pod'20: Goldballs (March 22)

[Sioux City Dynamo]

great stuff pod!  what meshes r u using for robin?

[Podmark]

great stuff pod!  what meshes r u using for robin?

Thanks!
The mesh is an excellent Red Robin skope by detourne_me that I've modified, the same one used for my Red Robin skins that are up at Hero Force with a few more extras added on.

[AfghanAnt]

These look great Pod. I'm especially fond of Tim as Batman.

[laughing paradox]

Those Robins are great. I like how the Batman really looks like a kid and not just a Batman on a smaller mesh.

[BentonGrey]

Great work Pod!  I love that original Robin skin.  You've done some really nice work with the cape as it crosses his shoulders.  That's a very nice skin!

[Tomato]

We all know 52 doesn't count pod, particularly for tim and the other titans. Honestly, I'd rather see you skin other YJ characters, at least they matter to the people writing them.

[Podmark]

We all know 52 doesn't count pod, particularly for tim and the other titans. Honestly, I'd rather see you skin other YJ characters, at least they matter to the people writing them.

Well there's not much to worry about right now, I'm not likely to skin New 52 Red Robin any time soon.
No real plans for any other YJ skins except maybe Dick.

[murs47]

Excellent Tims Poddy, I've always loved Tim's post Infinite Crisis look and you nailed it nicely here

[Podmark]

Mr Drake is awaiting you on HeroForce.


New previews for today: Scott Lang AKA Ant-Man!


My previously releasted original costume shifted over to a new skope.


New skin of Ant-Man's Heroes For Hire costume, a favorite of mine. This skin is thanks to a great mask model provided by Tomato, one that took me far too long to finish skinning.


Update of Ant-Man's Avengers costume, another favorite of mine.


New skin of Ant-Man's new FF costume for Marvel Now. I believe this is the first Marvel Now costume skinned.

[Cyber Burn]

Very nice Pod, love your colors.

[murs47]

Sweet! So Lang is back for good?

[detourne_me]

 
Yes!
any chance we'll be seeing the other FF?

[Outcast]

It's the first time i've seen some of the new costumes. The Heroes for Hire costume and FF (Marvel Now?) costume looks pretty good to me. Nice skope and skins Pod.

[Sioux City Dynamo]

Great stuff!  I love the Antmen!!

[Podmark]

Thanks guys.

Sweet! So Lang is back for good?

Seems so.

Yes!
any chance we'll be seeing the other FF?

I wasn't planning on it, I'll keep it mind though.

FF (Marvel Now?)

Marvel Now is Marvel's big relaunch starting next month.

[laughing paradox]

Hey, nice job on Scott Lang. I am really diggin' his new F4 costume. With Allred on the art, I think that book is going to be a lot of fun.

[AfghanAnt]

So far not a fan of any of the Marvel Now costumes but I am a fan of your skinning.

[Podmark]

Head down to HeroForce to get yourself some Ant-Man.

[detourne_me]

Thanks for releasing Tim and Scott, Pod.  These guys are great.
You've really been knocking these all-in-ones out of the park lately... Cannonball is amazing too.

[Podmark]

Something for Halloween:

Update of my classic Hobgoblin.

Originally this was going to be a Goblin set but then I spent most of this month playing Resident Evil 6, Borderlands, and then resting a sore back. I highly recommend them too...well not so much the sore back.

Have a happy Halloween!

[Cyber Burn]

The color of the boots seems a bit off in comparison to the bootcuffs, but otherwise, he looks great. Really nice texture work on him.

[Podmark]

The color of the boots seems a bit off in comparison to the bootcuffs.

Good catch, I'll have to improve that. The boot cuffs have a weird lighting issue that I wasn't able to fully fix.

[cascarudo]

love the ant man skins 

[ghazkul]

Love it man! You gonna do the new(ish) Hobby?

[Podmark]

Love it man! You gonna do the new(ish) Hobby?

It's definitely on my list, not sure when just yet. Phil would have been in the set I mentioned but time just got away from me.

[Tomato]

The color of the boots seems a bit off in comparison to the bootcuffs.

Good catch, I'll have to improve that. The boot cuffs have a weird lighting issue that I wasn't able to fully fix.

I can probably fix it for you if necessary, but all you should need to do is right click the boot-cuffs then click mesh->face normals followed by mesh->smooth normals and use the default settings.

[Podmark]

Thanks for the advice Tomato. I gave it a try but it didn't seem to improve anything. The default values were:
Max Smooth Angle: 60
Max Vertex Distance: 0.0010
Should I be using a different value?

Now I did play with the NiMaterial Property Emissive Color wheel first, a tip cmdrkoenig67 gave me. It improved things but as you can see above it's still off.

[Tomato]

Did you do the "Face normals" first? face normals should make the mesh look blocky and silly, then you use smooth normals to smooth them back out.

either way, my email is "my grey hulk 100 AT hotmail DOT com" without spaces.

[Podmark]

Aw crud, I missed a step 
I gave it a try but in nifskope niether setting caused any visible difference. However a friendly forum member (whose initials include U and E) has suggested a different skope for my little Hobgoblin, so I'll probably check that out instead.

[Podmark]

Carol Danvers in her new Captain Marvel outfit. Huge thanks to Afghan Ant for helping me with her hair.


Still haven't gotten around to finishing Hobgoblin. Pretty much lost all skinning interest during November, actually thought I might be done for a while, but the skinning bug struck back during December. I have some other stuff that's almost ready, so you should see more from me later this month.

I started writing a novel in November so most of my free time has gone towards that.