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Nice, I will use that one instead then ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Con
That is one nice Stargate kid made :)
But I can change the model later I first have to fix some of the problems. (like exiting the gate an being bumped to a few hundred meters high, but that only happens 1/100 or so)
Yeah. I remember reading somewhere that if the Hood fired all her guns at once, she would lay over about ten or fifteen degrees to the other side, which is no mean feat for a huge hunk of steel that weighs in the tens of thousands of tons range.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geo
Also, you seen what a 16-in. shell does when it hits? The craters are immense, and I've seen a couple of photos where the blast from a near miss actually picked up Tigers (58 tons) and even Tiger IIs (69 tons) and threw them like toys.
I've never seen the impact of a 16-inch shell, but I can believe that it would have that much of an effect.Quote:
Originally Posted by rossmum
You just tease us :smith:Quote:
Originally Posted by rossmum
If you can find those post them up :-3
I wish I still had them, I'll definitely post them if I see them again though :smith:
Crappy cellphone pic time!
http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._3733878_n.jpg
Finished the colors last night, just need to touch up the border with white.
It looks a bit too slab-sided. Obviously the original was a box due to engine constraints, but on yours it wouldn't hurt to add some tapering curves here and there (front of the scope hood, perhaps an inwards taper towards the bottom of the stock).
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Talon...4417_1m21s.jpg
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Talon...scope_wire.png
Better?
Not sure if I can taper the stock without removing/remodelling the buffer springs, though.
Looks better, although just to improve it even more you might want to try and round off the front of the hood so it's nearly circular and let it transition back into a chamfered rectangle towards the back.
I think that comes down to a matter of opinion. I like it the way it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by rossmum
I was about to say the same too. I like how it is now.
I dunno... I think that one level further in terms of softening its shape out would be a big improvement, but it's not my call to make.
Looks really tacky, everything is huge, even on my 1920x1080 display, just imagine what it looks like for somebody on a laptop screen ~1280x800Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBig
Too much text. What's with the 2008 2009 2010?
Also, disable the flip in the Zen Flash Gallery.
You don't need your name to appear twice (sidebar, logo).
I'll fiddle with it a bit, but given how the original is modelled I'm fairly sure it wasn't intended to be a half-circle so idk. I'll see how it looks. Can always make a completely different scope later anyhow.Quote:
Originally Posted by rossmum
Some of you know that if you checked halomaps I been working on shadering the h3r spartans over then my old h3b spartans, and since halomaps has not generated any worthwhile crit (except for higuy and a few others)
Refrain from criting on the shit ghost shaders which are TERRIBLE.
The EOD's tusks, I know it should be white.
The Mark V visor to bright and EOD visor to dark.
And also the blur on the EOD helmet is not my fault.
Other then that crit it please and dont say "stop ripping" this and that. It's for fun as I said before.
i still dont like the cubemap
Which cubemap? The visor? Or the armor.
The armour, granted i dont know what its "supposed" to look like, but i just feel there is something really wrong there.
Is there a detail map? does it actually show detail or are you using that slot for fake bumps?
Mehhhh the armor is ok. It's better then most others. Also I am still playing around with the fake bump thing. I don't think I even need it anymore since I just took it off to see how it would look like.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maniac
It looks more dull now with abit of shine. I kinda like it.
wait wait higuy pointed out its plastic, as always back to fixing
Thats because there is no detail map. do you plan on adding damage in the multi?
What cubemap are you using?
Same cubemap just like the h3b ones I released.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maniac
Is it called cubeh3 or cubeh3stop or something?
Or reflection diffuse metal.bitmap?
Its the warthog reflection metal...Quote:
Originally Posted by Maniac
Yea i edited my post as you typed i guess.
You might want to try something a little more varied.
Meh like what?Quote:
Originally Posted by Maniac
@Spartan094
The armor material needs work, as in, it needs to look more metallic and less plastic. Try using a dryer and grimier cubemap if you don't want to reshaderize.
Also, the EVA helmet's visor needs work as it's too bright and needs more of a goldish hue to it. No, scratch that, the visor needs to stand out more and the resolution around it looks like someone got a sharpie and bled all over it. Just saying.
The EOD looks a little iffy. I'll save my judging on it when you get the armor and the other error on it fixed for next time.
I think the best is the Mark V, mainly because I think it looks the best with the current settings. You might want to check the two black ridges above the visor though, they look a bit bland. If it isn't then, can you show a picture of it in the light?
Tbh, i would probably try using the original cube for the cyborg, seeing how that looks and or what colours need adjusting then i woud make it in Genetica.
I just think that cube is too plain.
I've been playing with the Stargate stuff for Gmod, and one thing I've noticed is that if the receiving gate is close to a wall, a vehicle will get stuck in the wall when it goes through because it just transports the whole geometry at the pivot point, it doesn't wait till the whole object is through to transport it. Will this work correctly in your mod? Also, yeah you should use Kid's gate.
E: woah, whole other page. This is @ Beele.
Anyway something like that but with less saturation( for a mp biped) might look better.
Then again it might not.
For the animation contest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vdF8FwbwzY
I love it :)
NOONOOOOOONONOONNONONO
BAD DOAN, NO, THAT'S CHEATING
You should be doing the animation all by yourself with no critique/help from anyone along the way, and enter it into the contest with everything done and edited to your liking. The judges will then judge it based upon your skills, and be able to actually say something instead of you having everything already fixed up because you posted it for critique.
If I'm somehow wrong on this (as it is all up to Teh Lag to decide) then I deeply apologize, but to me it seems a way of cheating and an unfair advantage for you.
On another note...
So uh, who likes shotgunz?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpkYQP8UFmk
Not bad, but I think the entire thing feels too vertical. rotate on more axes (axises? axees? you know what I mean) to add more vitality to the animation. the part where you hit the release switch is a great opportunity to use more rotation.
need advice
http://www.project-new-hope.com/uplo...ontent/297.jpg
obviously the sand and the sky are shit and need to be redone; problem is i can't paint loose beach sand nor overcast skies to save my life. water i'm fairly happy with, but willing to take crits on. sub is more or less in its final state; unless any of you happen to be experts on the hotel-class or wrecks thereof, i don't see any serious need for alterations there. i did it from memory before and got it mostly right, but i just touched it up a little with a few refs (brought the bow planes forward and up a little into their proper position, added the row of holes along the top of the light hull, lengthened the silver-coloured strips on the bow although i had their proportions to each other right on).
if anyone's dying to know what it's for, it's another one of my maniacal ideas for a map, but not for ce (even schism is probably going to be moved to a new engine because fuck the ce community). it's for source. i hope to god i can find someone willing to either brush in or (more likely) model a 100% accurate hotel, because i sure as hell can't manage that. best i could do is the exterior. maybe. and the actual surrounding terrain, again maybe.
tweek forget spaceships how about subs :smith:
I know that one of the Nuclear Dawn maps had a full scale submarine that I'm pretty sure was a model, but then again you could only see the exterior of that particular one. You might be able to get away with a combination of models for the exterior and brushes for the interior since this probably won't be moving (unless that's part of your plan, in which case I think you can parent geometry to a model and then parent that model to a func_train or something to that effect to keep everything moving as one object).Quote:
Originally Posted by rossmum
The problem with brushes is that you can only do so much in terms of detail, not to mention you have a limited number of them. Of course, you then have the issues that come with a model - from what I've been told, radiosity doesn't run properly on anything but brushes. Given the sheer scale and complexity of any sub, let alone a Hotel, model would seem the best choice although even then it would probably have some serious issues. As it is I'm going to have to figure out how to tweak the player collision, because a 32x32x72 box isn't going to work out so well in such cramped quarters.
e/ The mod Awakening actually had a fully-fledged sub base complete with one in drydock, all Kilo-class. That said, you couldn't go in them, Kilos aren't that big, and the models weren't that detailed.
Ross add me on steam and I will supply you with crits and brushes.
add me and I can supply anime, youtube links, and add you to my list of people to ask questions, along with Ultama, Con, Yoko, Selentic, and Exam.
I have no clue what your steam is heathen
there's a reason for that
Low blow, heathen, low blow.
But unfortunately it is not entirely unfounded.
That wasn't really a low blow. He could do a lot worse
the telephone pole type thing just looks like a bunch of turbo smoothed cyclinders stuck together.
otherwise just keep adding more detail to the thing, it looks ok as of now, but good be better. keep at it!
It sucks sel... Jk. Looks pretty dang good compared to your past work. Good job
needs more shit for the normal map. think wires, pipes, vents, any sort of details like that. It's just too boring for me right now.
You should also add some more decks, it can really make this ship great to look at
here is a nice image you can use that shows all those decks, and some more arsenal.
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1491183.jpg
http://f-15.us/d/31-2/SHIP_Battleshi..._Firing_lg.jpg
My grandpa passed by me while I was sitting and looking at this thread, he served in the US Navy, he said the ship looks ok right now but it needs a ton more details and more guns.
Also
http://www.xfire.com/video/23d951/
Pre-Halo from h3. Before you say, "LOLOLOL BITMAP CHANGE HURR". I had to import the gbx_model and fix the uvws and assemble the regions. I will be adding more but this is just for now. The whole sky will be getting a change but this is it for now.
Did it before you
My GBX Importer was screwed up, so I didn't get a chance to import it.
Sup advancebo.
Alignment problem?
UV's.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid908
Why'd he get banned?
Because Advancebo lended his account to masterz, which that got it banned, then he created a new one and I said sup bo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathen
I think your not allowed to make another account UNLESS your account gets accidentally deleted like joshflighters. Besides even if I didnt say it was him, he has the same IP. It was only a matter of time.
You're not allowed to create a new account without prior staff approval, and you're not allowed to give your password out to anyone for any reason; one person per account. Read the AUP, it's clear as day.
@ spartan: I think that bitmap looks a little bit TOO destroyed. It should have fewer breaks, and more solid pieces in between imo.
but this rule isn't well enforcedQuote:
Originally Posted by p0lar_bear
Because he made the account before getting approved.
Nobody had definitive proof that Mobster was Jay, just a suspicion, and from my perspective, I don't ban for things I heard through the grapevine. By the time he came out and said "Hey, I'm Jay," he had already turned himself around and became a decent member.
I don't necessarily welcome people to try to play the system like that, but, if you think you can create a whole new identity and drop bad habits or change up your personality some for the better, go ahead, just don't get mad if we find out you're an alt and we ban you.
And mod/admin alts. Those are okay too.
E: Also, you're forgetting me too clad. I was an alt too.
Technically those alts have Staff Approval if a Staff Member made them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathen
anyway lets talk about quick-crit things!!
http://derekdennison.codebrainshideout.net/
There's a gap below the flash thing, how do I get rid of it?
Any other suggestions before I go to finish it?
change to:Code:<object width="800" height="600" data="ZenGalleryDemo.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
Code:<object width="800" height="597" data="ZenGalleryDemo.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
I just tried looking at it in chrome. The table backgrounds aren't showing up. They actually don't show up in dreamweaver either, but they do in firefox. Help?
Why are you using a table for the menu? You have images in each cell, you could just put the images side by side and give them a margin. No point in using a table.
And I was always told to avoid using the <center></center> tags.
Just noticed you use a table with one cell? for the middle section and the footer. Why? You only have a flah element in the middle and an image at the bottom. My advice is to get rid of the tables.
How else am I supposed to arrange everything and give it a background image?
Unordered list, each link is a list item. Set
AndCode:li {
float:left;
}
Code:ul {
list-style:none;
}
Enfield L85A2 reload, I had some ophandle movement before but it didn't flow well/I couldn't execute it well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtXJ_vqMY9c
There's a lot more potential for movement than you've got there. The mag out is completely obstructed by the camera; make it visible like the mag in.
The gun's motion after mag out seems to... "imply" a different motion for the rest of the animation. It goes up smoothly like you're going to have a bouncy mag in, but then suddenly changes direction and it becomes very rigid.
@MrBig:
CSS:Code:<a href="link1"><img src="images/buttons/buttonname1.jpg" class="navButton"></a><a href="link2"><img src="images/buttons/buttonname2.jpg" class="navButton"></a> ect...
Something like that.Code:a img {
border:none; blahbalah, just get rid of the stupid border the link adds to the image because its linked.
}
.navButton {
margin: 0em 1em;
}
@ODX
I agree with lag. I think you should retoole the second half of the animation. When operating a bullpup rifle (from what I understand) it is actually pretty difficult to insert the magazine that way. What they do (I think) is press the butt of the rifle against their breast and rotate it on the X axis so that the magwell is facing them, and insert the mag that way. I think you could create a much more interesting animation that way. Also, the gun has a bolt catch, so you should operate that instead of the bolt. I have no idea where it is though, ask ross. >.>
Also you should render your animations with about 10 blank frames on the end (just resting at origin) so that youtube doesn't do its gay little cut off thing.
;kJASFJKLJD34aFQuote:
Originally Posted by ICEE
That's what I was forgetting! Hold on, I'll go re-render and upload it again and just replace the video in that post there.
Thanks for the crit.
I just drew myself
Very well done, what was it made in?
e: I was gonna say Illustrator because it looks like a vector image, but when you look closely it looks like you used brushes or a combination.
I don't do vectors (I don't have illustrator, and I don't do any stuff that requires a hugely scalable vector image) . It was all in PS CS4 with the brush tool, full hardness, with pressure sensitivity.
Looks great to me. The only thing thats a lil weird looking are your sideburns
Monocles are glorious. well done
Couldn't figure out how to go about closing that part off, so I just left it that way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geo
Maybe put a little line where the full edge of the sideburn would be? Just to hint that there is a shape there, but at the same time, not drawing too much attention to it.
Just learning photoediting. photoshopped image of an eye (actually used PSP X2) to create the image. C&C on how I can improve.
Quote:
A photoshopped image of an eye. Clear up the eyes, changed the colour, added eye liner and fixed the skin tone a bit.
Stock:
http://deelekgolo.codebrainshideout....03-08_2102.png
http://deelekgolo.codebrainshideout....8_2102_001.png
Should be reflecting the eye lashes like so.
Theres some slight blue around the red eye circle.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3332789/Tico...0Files/UV1.png
how is my uv!
I will probably have people tell me that uv tools are crap but i disagree.
If you are using max 9 or above i would suggest getting tex tools http://www.renderhjs.net/textools/
If you are using max 8 then i would suggest maybe Roadkill
http://www.pullin-shapes.co.uk/page8.htm
I see a lot of room for improvement there Selentic.
If anybody is using anything other than an auto-unwrapper these days, then they are doing something horribly wrong. Unfold3D >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hours of pointless effort. You still have to make seams, but it does everything else.
Pretty much the only time anyone should hand-unwrap things is when they're learning UVW unwrapping on a conceptual level.Quote:
Originally Posted by LlamaMaster
I hand unwrap things :( But i just personally prefer it, as I know where everything is and I can make it how I want.
Prob's why my unwraps are shizen right?
There actually are tools out there that help the process a lot. They don't make it perfect but they will certainly speed up the process and make finalizing it quicker. Someone at Montreal International Game Summit showed one they were working on but I can't remember what it was called. Either way sel, seems like some things up there should be stitched together others look like they could overlap to save space/time
Sel grew up without overlap. :downs:
Lets say this was my third unwrapping of a model to a single texture, how would I Be doing :downs:Quote:
Originally Posted by PenGuin1362
As for these tools if you can find me any of them I'd appreciate it a lot.
Also Maniac I'll check those out later tonight, thanks.
Use 3ds max's flatten mapping, it helps a bunch.
Likely going to scrap this, won't have time to finish. My plan was to go into a much more detailed character painting, but that's likely not going to happen
Still, crit this garbage so I know what sucks. Anatomy's wonky, still need to practice that shit
Lets start with the basics of just getting it look to like a human:
http://2healthfitness.com/web_images...tomy_chart.jpg
Memorize this.
cool,
I've had Atlas of Human Anatomy for the artist for a few months now.
I want to know what sucks, not a vague reference image.
check out human proportions, yours look off
I did the chest area a tad large to add that superheroish feel. Should I avoid that?
Like seriously, hit me hard here. Like a dirty school girl in one of those little skirts that just barely cover up the ass.
Ok, your anatomy is horrendous.
I gave you a vague image chart because basically everything is out of proportion.
It doesn't evne look like you took the time to make each side even a tiny bit symmetrical. Placement of muscles on the arm and on the stomach are incorrect, the crotch area is huge, the thighs are way too large and wrongly shaped. The armor makes no sense or even seems to care about how the human body bends, overall there is a huge list and I would suggest just sketching pictures of body parts to make them look right.
Also he has a woman's hour glass figure.
Also he has no neck.
Also his facial features are huge on his face and the head is too small and squashed.
Cool.
Well, I'll work on that shit and maybe I'll post some more. Oh, and his neck is just concealed by the armor outline, it's hard to see, look for the trapezious ;P
Though, if you couldn't tell, that tells me something about my art eh?
other things to keep in mind, Arm is the length of 3 heads from shoulder to finger tip (typically) Bodies vary from 7 to 8 heads in height. His hips do seem a bit narrow, but in the male figure, the hips will never exceed the width of the rib cage, only in woman will that happen. In the sketch your character had a very defined and strong upper body, the painted one looks scrawny as fuck. Finally, no drawing fists! That's the easy way out. Challenge your self and force yourself to learn to draw fingers properly.
Yeah, hands have always been a bitch, I always do fists whenever I get the chance, I should cut it out ;P I've been doing body sketches lately, action poses and stuff, trying to improve my porportions. Picked up "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way" which mentions blowing up porportions a bit further than usual to get a more exaggerated, specific look, which is probably why my shit looks so fucked (That and the fact that I used a mouse in Gimp ;P). I've heard learning realistic proportions first is the way to go, and that'll give a lot more room to stylize.
I'm wanting to eventually adapt a sort of "Marvel" style eventually, with very powerful, interesting looking characters, but with the ability to add a bit of a high level of detail. Realistic proportions and characters has always been somewhat boring to me, characters and art with high levels of action appeal to me much more. My inspiration is Paul Steed, John Buscema and Craig Mullens.
High hopes, especially for where I am now.
So, like... as far as drawings and paintings and shit goes, anyone know any good places to start?
