Saturday Morning Adventures Prep

[BentonGrey]

Awesome!  Thanks, HS! 

Hey everyone!  Sorry I disappeared for a bit. We had a crisis in my division right at the end of the semester, and we've been dealing with the fallout from that.  Fortunately, I think things are under control, so I can actually start enjoying my summer now, which means doing some modding!

How's everyone doing?

[BentonGrey]

I'll be finished with my update of Pulp Adventures soon.  After that I plan to finish the TMNT campaign and start adding in tons of characters. 

Can anyone help me out with that port of Daglob's Krang skope onto a mesh with giant size and keys?  That's pretty much the only piece left that I need to finish those immediate missions.

[Randomdays]

I'll look at Krang in a bit.

[BentonGrey]

Thanks, man!  That'd be a big help!

[Randomdays]

Benton, how tall do you want Krang? 10 foot? 20?

[BentonGrey]

RD, can we do 60ft?  If you're shifting the skope to a mesh that can use various size keys (like one of the giant meshes), we can dial it in.  I'm looking to adapt this episode of the classic cartoon:
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tmnt/images/e/e8/Krang_%28S%26S%29_2.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/400?cb=20140528162337

I'm thinking, kaiju showdown, with two of the team taking the Turtle Van and Turtle Blimp out to slow down giant Krang, while the other two go inside to disable his android body.

[Randomdays]

If the rerigging works, I can probably due any size. Unlike size changing in nifskope, I don't think there will be any speed change in the animations using Blender.

Of course, if the rerigging doesn't work(as sometimes happens) it wouldn't matter.

I'm going to look at some of the kfs that go with some of the giants. I think having a "fist(s) smashing the ground" attack would fit Krang.

[BentonGrey]

RD, sounds like a plan!  Yeah, some good 'giant style' attacks are what we'll need, and at least a couple of ranged anims.  If there's one that could work for eyebeams, that'd be good, but I can work around the ranged stuff, most likely.

[BentonGrey]

Alright, I've finished the draft of my Pulp Adventures update, and now I'm getting to work on SMA! 

Hey folks, this feels like the kind of thing that is out there somewhere, but does anyone know if we have any soda can 3D objects anywhere?  I'd like to use them in making FX for the Rat King and the Punk Frog archer Rasputin.  In a perfect world, I'd like a can with a few different textures to add flavor (pun partially intended) to the different attacks.

Curses: I thought the Punk Frogs were completely ready to go, but it looks like Genghis Frog is using Gren's Hogun the Grim keys, and, weirdly, they've only got four melee anims, and there's no mace combo (a knife combo instead).  Does anyone know if anything is compatible with those Gren Hogun keys?  If I can import a few other options from somewhere else, we'll be good.
Found it!  Apparently AA's Aquaman skope has some compatible keys from some Gren mesh, though I'll be darned if I know which.  I think I've got what I need.

[deanjo2000]

Rens wolverine has a beer can if that's any good?

[Randomdays]

I gave the Popeye I imported a can of spinach, and Frye from Futurama a can of Slurm

[BentonGrey]

Ah, thanks guys!  RD, can you suggest anywhere I can find some more textures to put on one of those cans?  I can import Wolverine's can easily enough, and I'd like to create a few different versions for the different types of arrows.

[Randomdays]

For the two I did, I just made some simple skins from pics I found on the web.

I'm not familiar with the character - what type of cans did he use? We could probably come up with some things like Campbell's soup or various sodas from web crawls

[BentonGrey]

It looks like the can objects have nice, simple textures.  It should be pretty easy to make something fit it.  The characters uses soda cans of various descriptions, so really, anything would work.  It's not like the details will be particularly visible in game.

[BentonGrey]

Okay, here's a weird one: Leatherhead's skope seems to work great in game...except I can't click on him.  I have no idea what's going on.  He's acting like an FF1 object without a bounding box.  I've uploaded him to the working folder:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/u3996a9vcnpvm/Saturday_Morning_Adventures

Anyone have any idea what might cause this?

[cranlox]

The same thing happens to me with Firecat from ATOM that we did at the time with Daglob, we were never able to reveal or understand what was happening

[BentonGrey]

Weird!  Well, that's discouraging.
:Edit: Okay, good news!  I seem to have solved the issue.  I copy and pasted a "handle" from one of the Frogs to Leatherhead, hid it, and now he's selectable.

[Panther_Gunn]

:Edit: Okay, good news!  I seem to have solved the issue.  I copy and pasted a "handle" from one of the Frogs to Leatherhead, hid it, and now he's selectable.

So you're saying that you "handled" it?

[BentonGrey]

Oof!  Ha, that's terrible, PG!

Hey, here's a quick question: does anyone know of any starfish FX?  I want to give Ray Filet the "throwing starfish" from his toy.

Here's something more substantive: I've got Mondo Gecko almost completely set!  It turns out, SA is more of a genius than I expected.  He set everyone's favorite skateboarding reptile up to work with male_basic, so I had all the animation choices I could want.  This leaves only two real issues.  First, he doesn't have a melee_idle, so there's not a neutral position that will reset his board to his hand if he goes from, say, riding to punching with an imported key.  This leaves the board on the ground, which really doesn't look too bad, but comes with its own issues.  I don't know if this is possible, but if a skoper could manage to make a melee_idle deal with the board, then the anims would be pretty seamless.  The last issue is that his "run" animation has him riding his board, which is great, but it has him hovering a bit above the ground, which can look a bit awkward.  In the same vein, the board is bigger when he's standing on it than when he's holding it.  Unfortunately, that version of the board isn't visible in Nifskope, so I don't know how to fix it.  I don't know if those things can be tweaked, but if they could then I'd say he'd be about perfect.  I've already been able to import all the animations I need, and I've got him built.

[Randomdays]

For a starfish, you've got the "male_basic_starro" I think its called. The starro should be able to be removed and used. Someone else would have to make it an fx though.

I mentioned the board sizing on the other thread.

[BentonGrey]

Great idea, RD!  Can anyone point me toward that mesh or send it my way?

[cranlox]

At night I send you the star of Ray Fillet

I hope you like it


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Call me psychotic but in my case, and without rush I make most of the effects for each character I add to my Freedom.
In the case of the video, they have most of the game's fx. I know they don't look bad, and that it's faster.
But it always calls me to personalize it. I uploaded my 1931 hero files of all the characters I made and the effects and sounds folder to my mediafire.
If you want to grab something from there you can grab whatever you want.
Precisely of these characters I only used Mondo, bebop and Rocksteady.

[BentonGrey]

Cool, thanks Cranlox!  You can send it to bentongrey @ yahoo.com

[BentonGrey]

Howdy folks, quick question: I've added some cool sci-fi pistols to Dean's awesome rock soldiers to fit the Dimension X theme, and I think they look pretty good.  However, the pistols are too shiny.  I'm assuming that this is because the only texture they have is "sentinel blaster".  I tried copying another textures refl and glow textures and renaming them "sentinel blaster_glow", etc, but it doesn't seem to have worked.  Am I missing something?

[cranlox]

fx ranged star
HERE!

I made a skin based on the action figure, but it would be missing the belt buckle
I also made other star shuriken that he or some other nautical themed character could use.
HERE

[BentonGrey]

That is awesome, Cranlox!  Great work!  I love it, and you even created custom end fx and chose sounds.  Thanks for making my life easy!

I've got them installed and working, but it looks like the files are missing two textures:
star toy
startexture 0r12

[cranlox]

That is awesome, Cranlox!  Great work!  I love it, and you even created custom end fx and chose sounds.  Thanks for making my life easy!

I've got them installed and working, but it looks like the files are missing two textures:
star toy
startexture 0r12

sorry!
here the files
https://www.mediafire.com/file/tmvxubc7rbjk44m/fx+ray+fillet+stars+textures.rar/file

[BentonGrey]

Awesome!  These are prefect!

[BentonGrey]

Here's another question.  I remember seeing an imported Splinter that looked straight out of the classic cartoon.  It doesn't seem to be in DM's collection, and my searches have proven fruitless.  Does anyone know where that is?

[cranlox]

Here's another question.  I remember seeing an imported Splinter that looked straight out of the classic cartoon.  It doesn't seem to be in DM's collection, and my searches have proven fruitless.  Does anyone know where that is?

It is the one that imported Style, I can send you its image in the previous link