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[John Jr.]

Great face and colors!

[BentonGrey]

Wow!  Those are some absolutely fantastic Luthors!  If I wasn't so burnt out with the DCUG by now, I'd definitely put an unamored version of him in.

[area34]

Thanks for the compliments. Ever since I started with Courts costume base with the Packers I keep making updates each time I use it. I'm tempted to go back to some of my other unreleased that were previous steps and swap in the fancier version.

Benton - Like I said before I still need someone to fix the Jet's before he's done. So maybe you'll be more inclined by then . -besides I plan on finishing Mercy to go with him before he's done and she's low on my to complete list.

[laughing paradox]

Area, those Lex Luthors are so good!

Good luck with skoping the particle emitters.. those are my skoping kryptonite.

[Scorpion13mk2]

Nice job on them Luthors. I especially like his stupid, jerk-arse face. You can tell he's a jerk just by looking at him.

[area34]

LP- Yeah, that's why I'm hoping someone might help me out. I figure it should be a simple matter or move the FX to the new jets but every time I do it the FX just disappears.

Scorp - Thanks, I was afraid he was more Prof X than Luthor. Both AA's and Courts are so good it's intimidating.

[detourne_me]

hmm, usually there are two parts to moving particle fx.  there is usually a node, and the fx emitter itself.  are you moving both parts?
if that doesn't do it for you,  maybe you'd have to move the skope to one with boot jests... like Jack of Hearts or wildfire...

also,  these skins ROCK man! i love the secret agent type look he was sporting in jlu.

[area34]

I thought that if I copied the original jet and pasted it to his calf I could then remove the original and reassign the, I think it's the SGO, to correspond with the new calf jet. I've gone line by line looking for anywhere that needs reassigning and switched them and I still end up with them disappearing. The best I've done is move the original jet pack to his ankles and then his flying animations look fine but his hovers are all messed up. I can't really move to another skope because I wanted the gun/chest animations that Fury has.

*sigh* I've never been able to get boot jets to work right with anything I've done. I have a Batman Beyond that I've been trying to do for months. Terry, like Holocaust, haunts me still.

[Avalon]

Don't give up hope:



He is based off the vxWonderman mesh. I got to adjust the jets a bit.

[detourne_me]

looks great avalon! how'd you do it?
ive been trying to skope some fx now too,  not having much luck.
I was wondering if it has something to do with the PArray part.  see if it is attached to any special bones.
Actually, it may be the nifSkinInstance?  perhaps the jetpack is linked to the spine1 node,  maybe you can change the nifskininstance to be the right and left feet for each jet....

[area34]

If you have any ideas I'd be more than happy to send it your way DM

Av- As a said before, I'd hate to lose the gun animations. To me, the only real Luthor is Clancy's JLU and that's what I wanted, the Super friends outfit was just a bonus just because I could.
Hmm. I dropped the chest capsules on mine because i thought they would make the outfit to busy but after seeing yours I might have to change that.

And now a something else.


I still need to work on the skope and put an earring on him.

[Scorpion13mk2]

Im not big on the character (in that Ive never read anything with him in it), but those are some nice pants you made there. The creases are amazing.

[area34]

I had made a Prof X skope a while back to be all New X-Men style but left the skin to used with AA's New X-Men style skins. Now that I'm working on something else I figure I should make a skin for it so it's not just a plain wireframe skope.

*updated picture below*

You have the original awful X outfit that he wore only a few times and a variant based off of Pod's version. It's much better looking darker I think. The skope still is an all in one that works with AA's skin. I'll include in the readme what needs to be renamed to include it since AA's skin won't be included in the pack.


... included.

[Podmark]

Cool. I'd originally intended to skin both versions. Never got around to it so I'm glad someone did.

[Blkcasanova247]

Very nice work there Area...the only thing I'd suggest is fixing those white highlights for the xband and belt on the yellow version.

[area34]

I was going for more of a solid black. The pics I've seen of the suit have no highlights or anything. Just solid blacks. Anyways, I went ahead and stuck Luthor's harness on him for a more rendered look.



After seeing Av's version I went ahead and updated Luthor's skope to have more capsules on him. I also did more with his face.

[area34]

Now that I fixed the shield I might as well post this before I close out the PSD. My own personal Avatar.



Built out of Bucky Cap, USAgent, and Wolverine. The shield's semi transparent and the energy line spin around from out the hub. I had to learn how to animate the glow layer. I was trying to go for a spinning stick going so fast it's like a solid shield. I did a green variant since greens my color and a X-Force/Daredevil red black variant since I see Pod's guys a lot and it got stuck in my head (the shield/weapon would be red but you can't alter the texture, what's in standard stays in all skins).

[Podmark]

Looks cool, well done.

[Xenolith]

man, that's really cool and really well done.  really.

[daglob]

I agree with Podmark and Xenolith. Impressive, too.

[laughing paradox]

Your avatar looks really great. The blue jacket seems to suit him the most.

The Professor X on the right is the way to go.

[style]

Love The Avatar!!!!!!!!!!! Looks like u should be down with my crew!

[BentonGrey]

Wow, really great work Area!  That shield is impressive!

[John Jr.]

I really liked the cloth textures in the blue version. The details are impressive!

[area34]

Thanks. That was my first attempt at adding textures (denim and cloth) to a base layer and doing highlights and shadows on top. It was something I've been wanting to mess with since seeing how Court and TUE's has been killing with it. Mostly I couldn't get the jeans to look like jeans without the help. How AA can pull it off so cleanly I'll never know.

@Benton - The shield came out better than I ever thought. Murs gave me a few ideas on how to sell the effect and then animating it really closes the deal. In game it looks great.

[Troller]

The only thing I have trouble with is the actual muscle structure I can do clothe and pants fine. But not with muscle showing through.

[murs47]

I can't wait to see the shield in action.

[area34]

I'd be happy to release it but I just need somewhere to upload it. 

[Cyber Burn]

I can't wait to see the shield in action.

Me too.

Also, your Luthors look pretty rock solid. Really impressive.

[area34]

Taking a break from completing my various WIP's and starting a new one-

*Updated later in the thread*

The Escapist
From one of my favorite comics in the last ten years. That is the silver age version (but I'm not sure if it should be black or dark blue). I'm still skoping the modern/relaunched hair. I plan on doing a golden age that is bright blue and I have a bulkier build version on the mesh that is for the time when Denny wears the suit. I haven't really done much with the keyframes other than dump flying animations (he's built out of Ren's Supes) so if anyone has any ideas what to do with his moveset let me know.