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[BentonGrey]

Man, Dean, I open the thread and find a hoard of riches!  First off, I do have a Vulko, but that version is lovely too, with really nice detail on the face!

Second, that Nereus is just gorgeous looking.  Great work on him, and yes indeed, I did request him.  In fact, he's just about the last piece I need for my Aquaman campaign, so that's a big one for me.  Your version improves on his comic look nicely for my purposes.

Finally those Trench look great, and you've given them a really interesting design!  They feel nicely alien and menacing.

[BentonGrey]

Hey guys, does anyone know if there exists or if there is any way to make a male_teen version of the swimming keys?  I just discovered that the existing ones distort the teen mesh, which throws a monkeywrench into my plans.

[Tomato]

Depending on what you're doing no easy way, but there are a few options. Depending on what you have on the skin side, you can either move the skin to my teen mesh and futz with its proportions to make it more like the teen_14 or billy batson mesh, or try to warp the teen 14 to fit on a mb biped.

[daglob]

Gimmie a little time. Someplace I picked up a "Sidekick Pack", but haven't really checked out the meshes yet.

[BentonGrey]

'Mato, I was going to use the C6 Aqualad skin because it was designed for that younger mesh, but I could use your teen skin easily enough with some different proportions, if that would work.  The idea was that we'd meet Garth at first when he was a kid, then see him older as a fully fledged Aqualad.

DG, cool, let me know if you come up with anything!

[daglob]

Check this out:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/cndc00pa0m9amoz/male_basic_sidekick.zip/file

It was created by Extor Prime. I didn't do  lot of testing on it. I think I have Male Belt and Male Cape versions, also. Supposed to be the equivalent of, say, an 18 year old.

[BentonGrey]

Thanks for sharing that with me, DG!  Unfortunately, I don't think that one will work.  I was looking for something around the proportions of male_teen, which is supposed to be a young teenager, like around 12 or 14.  In general, I'd like to capture this kind of look for Aqualad:
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/aquaman-8-the-plot-to-steal-the-seas/4000-6395/
My thought was to try to tell the story of his being adopted at a point where it would seem necessary and where the father/son bond could make the most sense.  But if I can't do that, no worries.  I'll just intro Garth a little older.

[BentonGrey]

Hey guys, I've got a weird issue, and I need some help with it.  The FFX walker mesh, which I use for various GL constructs, is showing up with a pink tinge to its skin, like it's missing a texture or something, but it has everything it is supposed to.  I can't figure it out.  Can anyone take a look at it for me?

[spydermann93]

Is its skin in tga or dds format?

[BentonGrey]

DDS, so it's not the TGA exhaustion.  I've tried adding a lightmap and renaming textures, but no luck.

[spydermann93]

you might be able to scour the character.nif file in all of the mesh bits that are glowing pink and see if there's something missing.

If you want, you can send it to me and I can try taking a look.

[BentonGrey]

I've gone over it, but I can't see anything.  It's definitely not individual parts, more like highlights or something.  Thanks man, I'll do that!  Maybe you'll have better luck than I did.

HP sorted me out.  It was missing a lightmap, and my replacement was named incorrectly.

[Randomdays]

Benton - for the male_teen problem, I just tried this and it seemed to work.... I took a male_basic based Aquaman mesh with swimming kf's, in this case Aquaman GA by KennX, and opened it in nifskope. I clicked on the 'handle' on the left to select it and then right clicked on it to open up a menu. Select 'transform' then 'edit' and then change the scale at the bottom of the popup window. I changed it to about 70% but choose whatever looks good to you, and click accept. Go back to the transform menu and click 'accept' and then save the mesh. When I checked it in the character tool, a smaller version was there and appeared to animated correctly. Since its male_basic based like the teen meshes, the Aqualad skins worked fine.

On the flag, not seeing much I can do. I did see that one of the nif's included has its own light sources - not sure if this was on purpose to help light it up or something added and not needed.

Oh - completed refixing the Manta Ship. That is an awesome skin for it! With the manta men, Tusky, Storm and Imp, and maybe Topo, this is going to be great. Too bad about not finding Qwsp though.

RD

[BentonGrey]

Thanks for looking into this stuff, RD!

I can just shrink 'Mato's Aqualad, and that will probably do the job.  I just liked how 'kid-like' the teen mesh looked, but as you say, I've got an embarrassment of riches!

Flag: Hmm, could the light source be the culprit?  And I sent you two? 

Yeah, the community has really rallied around me for this campaign.  It's pretty amazing that a lot of my long-shot dreams are coming true!

[Randomdays]

Benton, The banner directory came with 3 nifs - shadow_banner_01, shadow_banner_01_base, and shadow_banner_01_fragments. The base nif has 2 directional lights set at "max-directional light" and a third ambient light. It uses a 'shadow banner damaged' skin.

I assume the fragment nif is for when its destroyed. For the other 2, I assume they work together on the map but I have no idea really.

[BentonGrey]

Right, the different states of the banner.  Well, then that can't be it, because it's the regular version that is so dark.  I haven't checked the other one.

[Randomdays]

Benton,

Couldn't get the portal to work correctly, but I found this one....https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/architectural/decoration/old-stone-portal and it converted with no problems. the center swirl and the plants are different materials of the nif so they can be deleted if not wanted. There are no skins with it as all colors are materials of the mesh.

Done and ready to send when I get a couple more units to go with it.

RD

[BentonGrey]

Howdy guys, I've got a big piece of terrain from my next Aquaman mission that has weird UV mapping, making it look a little rough.  Would anyone be willing to help me out by messing with this?

[BentonGrey]

And here's another one; does anyone know what keys Magmaman_AA takes?  It's got a male_heavy based body, according to the skin, but I can't figure out compatible keys, and I need to tweak them a bit. 




He's got distinctive ranged anims, like shooting something out of a gauntlet-mounted weapon.  AA's readme just says that the original mesh bits were by Vertex, Valandar, and Ink.

[daglob]

Parasite, maybe?

[BentonGrey]

Hmm, I have Parasite_Ren, and those keys don't work.  I'm sure there are other versions, though.

Here's the mesh in question if anyone wants to help me figure it out:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/207qvkckgzwjina/Magmaman_AA.zip/file

[spydermann93]

It's Clayface by Texas Jack, isn't it?

[Randomdays]

Or Plasmus by Bobby69?

[BentonGrey]

Ding, ding!  We have a winner!  It is indeed Plasmus!  Thanks guys!

[BentonGrey]

Howdy folks, would anyone be willing to make some DC-centric versions of the FF character billboards from the game?  There are three textures I'd like to replace for general atmosphere.  We could have a Superman one, obviously, and the other two could just be generic, or they could feature WW or somebody else high-profile and public.  This should be super, super simple.  Even I could probably do it, ha, but I'd love to have someone field this for me while I'm working on my campaign. 

:EDIT: I also need a couple of the German buildings given slightly altered skins.  I think this would just be a matter of making their paint colors brighter and more like New Orleans' French Quarter, but it's a bit too nuanced for me to accomplish.
SPY helped me out with the buildings!

[UnkoMan]

So, heads up... I got hit by a car a little bit ago!
That's why I haven't been replying lately, or getting covers done.
I saw your post with Atlantean art, and was going to mention I'd like to put skinned frames around it.

Billboards I really love! I actually added more billboard objects in my maps.

Unfortunately I've still got like 5 weeks until my hand heals, so if anybody else ismaking stuff before that go for it.

I will definitely whip up a few billboards after I am healed up though!

[BentonGrey]

Yikes Unko, are you okay?!  I think that's a pretty good reason to be incommunicado!

I'm glad you're interested, and I'll be thrilled to keep working with you when you're healed, but no worries at all about DCUG stuff.  It can wait!

[Panther_Gunn]

Billboards sound pretty easy, and I like doing stuff like that.  Are they set static in the missions/danger room, or can they be set to random?  I like being able to have a little more variety.

If someone can give me a quick idea of what it takes to make one, I'm sure I can find something.

Benton -- were you thinking of something like billboards that are in comics, or making one custom?

[BentonGrey]

Howdy PG, great!  SPY has volunteered to help with this too.  Perhaps the two of y'all could join forces?

The main billboards are static, but as I understand it there are some animated ones too.  I don't know much about them.  There are 4 FF team member ones that need replacing, but there are more general ones too that can be replaced.  SPY and I came up with these ideas for the main four:

• Superman PSA (finished)
• Lexcorp ad
• Waynetech / Wayne Enterprises ad
• Daily Planet ad

[deanjo2000]

Some more options if you can have more than 4 could be:
S.T.A.R Labs.
Luthor for president.
Ace chemicals.