Saturday Morning Adventures Prep

[BentonGrey]

Great work, Dean!  He looks awesome!  I really love the hat version.  No worries on being burned out.  I feel it some too. 

[deanjo2000]

These came out better than i thought.
Mighty bebop and Super Rocksteady.

[BentonGrey]

Mighty Bebop and Super Rocksteady!  They look fantastic, Dean!

[BentonGrey]

Super minor update, but one of the things that had me a bit stymied before the semester started eating my lunch was He Man's Beast Man, who I had a several really lovely art assets for, but each one was lacking something necessary to build the characters HF properly, wither melee keys or ranged keys.  My favorite of the versions was only had a throwing anim for ranged, and also didn't play nicely with anything else.  Well, I finally found a solution!  I imported an animation from a set of keys that distorted the mesh, but in this particular animation, the distortion isn't very noticeable, and I think it looks pretty great!  We're back on (a very slow) track!


See, can't even tell!  I'm inordinately pleased with this. 

[BentonGrey]

Hey folks, I seem to remember a Fing Fang Foom mesh floating around, one without the little shorts, but I apparently don't have it.  Can anyone send it my way?

[Randomdays]

The only one I have or knoe about is Val's from New Power Inc. Besides the standard skin there's an alternate by AA

It doesn't look to me like its got shorts on it.

[BentonGrey]

RD, I assume that's probably the one and I've just misremembered.  I can probably work with it.  Can you send it my way?

[Randomdays]

Sent

[BentonGrey]

Thanks, RD!  That'll work perfectly!

[BentonGrey]

Okay folks, my He Man setup is pretty close to done.  I'm trying to round out Beast Man's summonable beasts, and I'm not quite happy with what I've got for a quick, flying monster.  What do we have out there for flying monsters?  Are there any wyvern-esq meshes?  I'm pretty wide open, so throw whatever you've got at me, and we'll see if I can make it work.

[Randomdays]

A pterodactyl, a giant scarab, a wasp, a hornet, a dragonfly, bats, a dragon (I think...Val?), Sauron from the Hidden Land, Sam the Eagle with lots of different skins.

[BentonGrey]

Thanks, RD!  I think the pterodactyl would arguably the best fit, especially if it has any funky, fantasy skins.  Can you send it my way? 

:EDIT: Actually, can you send me the scarab, bats, and the dragonfly as well?  I should have those.

On another, more long term note, I've got a huge set of amazing G.I. Joe skopes from Style, but some of them aren't working for me.  I suspect that the issue is that our amazing skoper built them for FF1, but they have parts from different meshes, so they don't properly convert using the EZ Nif Converter.  I know there's a way to fix this problem, but I think it's a bit out of my depth.  Does anyone know how to do it, and would they be willing to convert these for me?

[Randomdays]

Oh, and I forgot a vulture (bird, not villain).

Everything I did should be on the megasite - Scarab, bat, pterodactyl, vulture, and dragonfly.

My bat is from Scooby Doo. Bevo did one too - I put in my request folder

On Gi Joe...

Possibly. When I talked to Style about these a while back, he didn't want them released because he hadn't kept notes on who he skoped the pieces from, and wasn't sure about permissions. Have you checked with him about those?

IF so, it might be easy as putting them into Blender and back out again, even though Blended sometimes csn't work with some skopes either.

[BentonGrey]

RD, d'oh!  I should have checked your site to begin with!  I was poking around everywhere else instead.

JOE: Yep, Style sent them to me specifically for me to use, and I have his permission to use them in the SMA mod.  If I sent you the skopes with issues, could you see if that would work?

[Randomdays]

Send them over and I'll see whats up

[BentonGrey]

Thanks, man!  Coming your way.

[DoctorRuina]

It may be possible to solve this by moving the pieces with nifskope to another base mesh. And I did some gijoe skopes a time ago that you can use. Also, Gijoe is a franchise that interests me and I'm open to doing more Skopes.

[BentonGrey]

Thanks, DR!  I will probably take you up on that.  There are a few gaps in Style's massive set of Joes, and you can help me fill them in.

[Randomdays]

Broken Joes -

Its going to be slower than I thought. So far...

I didn't see anything wrong with the Air Chariot?

Airborne - too many errors for Blender to run

Breaker - Errors on output from Blender - I'll see If I can figure out what the problem is

Baroness and Mindbender - fixed, but on export a lot of the scoped pieces lost their attachment to the main mesh and I had to move them back to their proper positions. These two are done.

[BentonGrey]

Thanks so much for fielding this for me, RD.  It's a huge help.  Poor Airborne.  Hopefully Style will be able to remake the skope for    eventually.  Nonetheless, that's MUCH better than it was!

[Randomdays]

Finished with the rest, except Breaker. I think I got it figured out.

Most were just using Blender to place the skoped pieces back where they belong.

Of the rest- a total of 3 wouldn't import to Blender.

Wrapping it up soon

Edit - Break fixed

[DoctorRuina]

Good news! I'm interested in all these characters.

[BentonGrey]

Thanks so much, RD!  This was a huge win for the project!

Hey folks, I'm thinking about doing the Silverhawks after I finish He-Man.  To do that, I'm going to need some help with FX, as I need dual laser beams for their shoulders to match the cartoon.  I've messed around with single beams, trying to double them, but they never come out parallel, instead firing in different directions.  I've also played with existing dual beams, but I haven't gotten those right either.  Anyone willing to take a crack at it for me?
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/images/1300-752359
http://www.oafe.net/yo/art/silvh_ult2_swill07.jpg

[BentonGrey]

I think I have the Silverhawks FX taken care of.  I've got a new one for y'all.  Can anyone recommend some art assets that could serve as minions for Mon*Star, the Silverhawks villain?  I want to create some low-level canon-fodder for him for my SH campaign.  I'm thinking something robotic and red, probably with some guns of some sort.  I feel like something exists that will work, but I'm having trouble bringing it to mind.  Here's Mon*Star himself for reference:
https://thundercats.fandom.com/wiki/Mon*Star

[Randomdays]

Looking around - nothing for cannon fodder yet, but here's some pics of some minis of his crew

https://www.reddit.com/r/HeroForgeMinis/comments/o5w894/some_hero_forge_creations_and_this_time_villains/?rdt=45549

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1157427190/silverhawks-quicksilver-steelheart-32mm

[BentonGrey]

Thanks, RD!  We've actually got some lovely versions of his gang, thanks to Dean, but I was just thinking about giving the players a bit more opposition to kick around and give myself a bit more flexibility in level design.

[Randomdays]

I watched it way back in the day, so I don't remember much. How about multiple copies of the boxing robots that "Smiley" is based on?

https://www.deviantart.com/franciscoetchart/gallery/51260605/silverhawks

Sky shadow?

"Sky-Shadow was used as the basis for a robotic army, an army of Sky-Shadows, and in another a giant Sky-Shadow was created. "

[DoctorRuina]

I haven't watch this series yet, but I'm interested in watching it. I want to watch a lot of these classic series, but I don't have time.     But I'm always interested in making villain skopes skins.

[BentonGrey]

Thanks, RD!  Yeah, I forgot about that episode.  That would make some sense.  I was thinking something humanoid, robotic, and ground-based, to allow the Silverhawks to fly around them (keep the Hawks feeling special).  The concept doesn't necessarily have to be directly drawn from the show, just some canon fodder that would "feel" right.  I feel like something appropriate exists, I just can't place it.  I was looking at some robotic options, and Tommy's LMD Cancer is in the ballpark:
https://tommyboymeshes.freedomforce4ever.com/Marvel%20meshes%20L.html

Can anyone think of other somewhat generic robotic henchmen we could paint red?

Also, thanks for the link, RD: those pieces are going to be super handy for portraits!

[Randomdays]

https://rigmodels.com/model.php?view=Robot_Rebel-3d-model__TO10G3TCVT7HJ9MGBRIGXZRKA&searchkeyword=robot&manualsearch=1

https://rigmodels.com/model.php?view=Diamondhead-3d-model__K0N8CL69J1THEQD3PCP8CCFHZ&searchkeyword=robot&manualsearch=1

https://www.models-resource.com/playstation_4/crashteamracingnitrofueled/model/77533/