Saturday Morning Adventures Prep

[BentonGrey]

Ah!  That's where it was.  Thanks, Cranlox!  Now I know.

[BentonGrey]

Alright folks, here's a new one.  Does anyone know any male_heavy style meshes that have a burrow animation?

:EDIT: And here's another: Is there anything out there, maybe in some of the imported animal meshes, that could work as mutant minions for the Rat King?  I'd love some giant rat-like or man-rat like creatures to give his rodent armies some variety.  I though I had some already, but apparently not.

[cranlox]

There is a giant rat, I'm going to look for it somewhere.
Marvel's armadillo is a character that makes holes in the ground and I think it is compatible with heavy


https://www.models-resource.com/pc_computer/darksoulsii/model/63368/
this need a "cartoon skin" or
https://www.models-resource.com/xbox_360/crashmindovermutant/model/27635/
with mini edits

[BentonGrey]

Thanks, Cranlox! 

Yeah, that wolf/rat might work, though it would indeed need a skin to be a little less horror-style. 

Can anyone send me Armadillo?  I don't seem to have him.

[cranlox]

look at your mail 

[BentonGrey]

Awesome, Cranlox, that's exactly what I needed!

[Randomdays]

Mentioned in the other thread, but Gren's Giant Man has both ground smashing and foot stomping animation for Krang, so I'll try to work with that.

[BentonGrey]

RD, I think Gren's Giantman has the best giant anims, so that'd be great! 

[cranlox]

I remember him from the old Family game with a pickaxe in his hand, and decided to give it to him because the shovel itself looked pink

HERE!

[BentonGrey]

Cranlox, very cool!  Thanks!

[deanjo2000]

That looks cool

[BentonGrey]

Howdy folks, I've been working on the custom FX for the Punk Frogs, and I've got an issue with the "soda pop" arrows I created for Rasputin.  The cans I added to the arrow FX are showing up as translucent in game.  Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

[Randomdays]

Translucent or transparent?

For transparent, check in nifskope to see if alpha channel is turned on - on the materials tab for the nif, move the alpha channel slider higher and lower and see if it changes anything. If it does, move the slider bar to 0 and it should be solid.

If translucent (shiny?}, try moving specular color to the bottom left corner of the triangle and move the glossiness bar to the left.

[Randomdays]

Benton, on Krang, working on it, but since I'm at it, would you prefer this one instead?

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/krangs-android-body-65e4d4a8fad34a21b72d487c5caaecd0

[BentonGrey]

Thanks for the response, RD!  Yeah, they are partially transparent, or translucent.  The can and its color and design are still visible, but you can see the arrowhead underneath.  I changed the Alpha slider to 0.00, but it doesn't seem to have changed anything.  It was set to 1.00.

Krang: That is a really cool model, but since the Krang we have was one of the last things created by Daglob, I'd like to keep that one, if we can. 

[Randomdays]

All right Benton. Keeping the original Krang

On the arrow, are you sure you selected the material for the can part of the fx, and not the arrow part?

Each would have its own lighting and settings.

I may have gotten the slider reversed, but either way, one end should make it completely solid and the other completely invisible.

One other thing might be that its inside out. Right click on the can in nifskope and a popup should open. Select "mesh" and either "face normals" that should automatically try to make the polys right side out, or "flip normals" that will turn the polys opposite of what they are.

If nothing works, send it over and I'll take a look at it. It may needed to be joined in Blender

[BentonGrey]

Thanks, RD.  I appreciate it, man.

Can Arrow: Okay, I tried those ideas, and it remained transparent, but I figured it out...though I don't know why this worked!  I didn't have this problem with my first draft, and I realized, I had copied the can object to the scene_root, rather than to the fx itself.  In the second draft, I attached it to the FX branch.  Something about that seems to have made it show up transparent, though I haven't a clue why.  Fortunately, just putting it back on the scene_root seems to have fixed the problem!  Weirdly, I also put my soda-pop grenade for Rat King on the fx of the Nazi grenade, and it worked fine.   

[Randomdays]

Very strange. Maybe the properties of the scene root matched.

Glad you got it worked out

[BentonGrey]

Howdy folks, I think I may have found pretty much the perfect solution to Rat King's minion needs.  Check out this mechanical warhound mesh, made from the wolf mesh.  I think with a rat-ish skin that gives it a rat tail and makes the plates and spikes look like bone or something, or maybe even armor, this would work great.  What do y'all think?

[Randomdays]

Bearded did a rat.

I imported a dire rat from NWN2 a while back.

Its on my megasite under animals.

Oh... and uploaded Krang under requests there as well.

[BentonGrey]

Thanks, RD!  Krang turned out great!  I also got my Technodrome map set up.  It all looks pretty cool together:




I downloaded the dire rat.  He was too small, so I've blown him up.  Doesn't look too bad.  I'll play around with it a bit more and see how it goes.

[Randomdays]

Glad everything's moving along.

[BentonGrey]

Yep, I'm definitely making good progress!

Speaking of, I'm working on Verminator X, the evil cyborg cat from the future (there's a sentence I bet you didn't expect to read today!), and I'd like to give him some little robotic drones he could summon in during a fight.  I know what I'm after exists, but I can't quite remember them.  Does anyone know of any assets that would fit?  I'm thinking something along the line of DC's Skeets (Booster Gold's little robotic sidekick), though not Skeets himself, as he'd be too recognizable.  I just need a little hi-tech-looking bot.  Anyone have any good ideas?

[Randomdays]

Trying to find a few drones.....

Ink has a lot to choose from on Hero Force. Probably your best bet.

Tap had a robo-spider at champions

[BentonGrey]

Trying to find a few drones.....

Ink has a lot to choose from on Hero Force. Probably your best bet.

Those are exactly what I was looking for!  Thanks, RD!

[BentonGrey]

Hey folks, here's a new one.  I'm starting work on the TMNT vehicles, and fortunately, I've got all the assets I need.  However, I'm trying to replace the Turtles on Daglob's Turtle Blimp with the new meshes I'm using, and I can't quite get them to take on the poses of the Turtles already there, no matter where I paste the new ones in. 


On a similar note, I'd like to use the "Inner Being" attribute to allow the Blimp to detach the Glider, which could then operate on its own for a limited amount of time.  The Blimp itself hexes out of the Glider nicely, but the fins on the back are actually attached to the Glider object.  Any suggestions?

[Randomdays]

1) Are the turtles static objects on the blimp with no animation?

2) Do you need the fins on the back of the glider need to be attached to the blimp instead?

[BentonGrey]

1) Yep, they just sit there, no animations.

2) Yes, the fins would need to be attached to the Blimp object instead if I was going to use the two separately. 

[Randomdays]

I can probably do something with those. Pack them up and send them over when you can.

[BentonGrey]

Thanks, man!  I'm uploading them to the working folder.  Leo and Raph are on the glider, and they're the only ones I need.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/u3996a9vcnpvm/Saturday_Morning_Adventures