The New Guy Pt. II

Hanzo Hattori · February 01, 2009, 11:41:41 AM

7-Hand & Rahjin. Beta versions of a couple of characters based off my friends' ideas. Testing some fx work...a lot of skoping...I accidently loaded Rahjin w/ a big char.'s .kf, now I can only use big char .kf's. If someone could help me with this...

Also...I origionally wanted 7-hands fx arm to emit blk smoke...however shades of blk are trsnp. while shades of grey are white...any ideas? Maybe changing the spectral color...

Blkcasanova247 · February 01, 2009, 01:57:18 PM

Hey is that "7 hands" guy a kittbash of an Afghan Ant skin?

AfghanAnt · February 01, 2009, 02:00:53 PM

Quote from: Blkcasanova247 on February 01, 2009, 01:57:18 PM
Hey is that "7 hands" guy a kittbash of an Afghan Ant skin?

Looks like my the Captain's face.

daglob · February 01, 2009, 05:35:19 PM

There is a Human Torch Black mesh at FX Force. The "fire" is black, so you could paint a cloud on the alpha channel and then use a semi-transparent fill to make it smokey. I know too that there are "fire" files with different effects posted someplace. I asked for them and don't remember where they are, but the request would be in the archives.

Hanzo Hattori · February 01, 2009, 07:21:52 PM

I used the face of the Captain, b/c I haven't skinned the face yet. I had to read up to figure out what exactly a kittbash was. I "skoped" (I think is the term) the hair and the collar from the Capt. mesh. I also used the male_basic wireframe to reference where the coat lines up from the skin to the mesh. So everything other than the face(which I'm changing) I skinned myself. Is this considered kittbashing?

tommyboy · February 01, 2009, 07:30:39 PM

Quote from: Hanzo Hattori on February 01, 2009, 07:21:52 PM
I used the face of the Captain, b/c I haven't skinned the face yet. I had to read up to figure out what exactly a kittbash was. I "skoped" (I think is the term) the hair and the collar from the Capt. mesh. I also used the male_basic wireframe to reference where the coat lines up from the skin to the mesh. So everything other than the face(which I'm changing) I skinned myself. Is this considered kittbashing?

Once the face is original, you are good.
But using parts of other peoples skins is frowned on, (unless it's a base skin).

Podmark · February 01, 2009, 07:32:54 PM

If you're ever using something as a placeholder, like the Captain face, best to mention that in the preview.

Gremlin · February 01, 2009, 09:54:05 PM

Can't wait to see what it looks like without the placeholder--it looks amazing. I love 7-Hand's arm!

Hanzo Hattori · February 02, 2009, 02:10:37 PM

Here's an update after finding a way to make the black fx(thanks daglob) and skinning the face.

AfghanAnt · February 02, 2009, 03:22:55 PM

I honestly like the blue energy arm a little better and for the record, I didnt mind you using my face as long as you credit me.

Hanzo Hattori · February 02, 2009, 05:03:25 PM

word is bond. I liked the blue flame arm better also, but when he described the char. he said black aura. I tried to add a bit of blue to make it more dynamic...I dunno, a couple of changes and he'll be finished. Then I can touch up Rahjin.

Gremlin · February 02, 2009, 05:24:15 PM

If you made the black flames smaller or more translucent it would work better. Now you can't see all the cool detail on the arm.

Hanzo Hattori · February 04, 2009, 11:18:37 AM

I think I'm happy with this here....I did some minor re-meshing(I guess?) in Maya, afterwards I couldn't attach .kfs anymore, so no dynamic stances...lessened the smoke/fire to reveal the arm more. Overall I'm surprised, I thought Rahjin would be the fun one...

Gremlin · February 04, 2009, 06:02:24 PM

That looks really cool, although I'm a little iffy on the scarf-mask. But the arm looks much better now.

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