Aquatic Monster Models

[Circa]

Hmm, I got the Colo Claw Fish fully functioning now, but I still need to get sounds for him... This is going to be the hard part. I will probably end up having to find Star Wars Episode 1 online somewhere, and fast forward to the underwater scene, then record the audio directly from the system sounds ( so that there is no background interference ) and then convert the sounds to the proper format and overwrite all of the howler sounds in the mod.

 

 

A few Hours Later...

 

Sounds are good to go, this will work for now. The only other thing that I can think to add, would be some kind of custom shader to make it glow slightly in certain areas, like in the pic below

I would have offered to record the sounds, but I'm glad you got them! This is looking great!

Is there a "length" value as well?  That would be useful considering the shape of this model...

I think there might be. You can try that but then again it's up to the model itself. That and the scale line.

[Vegeta]

I would have offered to record the sounds, but I'm glad you got them! This is looking great!

 

Well, I recorded every sound that the Colo fish made in Star Wars episode I, but the background music (and some of Jar Jar's squealing) interfered with the sound files.  I did the best that I could to try and cut out those background noises, but you can still hear them from in game.

 

If you are still willing to record the sounds, I would like to compare your recordings to mine, and use the ones of the best quality.

[Circa]

You could also just use some sounds from the game like the rancor or wampa and manipulate them to make them sound a little different. I'll see what I can do.

 

The rancor sounds are extremely similar to the Colo sounds!

 

If you need some help texturing the teeth, here's a good screencap.

 

[AshuraDX]

for sonuds check this site out :

http://www.freesound.org/

 

you could probably mix some animal sonuds to create own sounds for your colo

[Circa]

That too. But I compared the rancor sounds to the colo sounds in the movie and they're very similar.

[Vegeta]

Well, I think that everything is good with the Colo for now, but I still need at least one other model of a creature to inhabit my map.  (You know, so that it's not just Colos everywhere...)

Other models don't necessarily have to be of the creatures that I gave reference pictures for, and any models don't have to be super complex or anything like that.

It can even be as simple as a Gooberfish (shown below)

 

 

[ChalklYne]

im re-rigging the colo now and wth ill fix an anim or two make him legit for ya did u already do a shader?

[Circa]

I think the firaxa shark would be awesome. But the young ones would look cooler than the big mother one.

 

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Firaxan_shark?file=Firaxa.jpg

[Vegeta]

im re-rigging the colo now and wth ill fix an anim or two make him legit for ya did u already do a shader?

 

I tried to do the shaders, but for some reason it made the entire model glow brightly, and the teeth became a dark grey, I am going to need some help with that...

[AshuraDX]

I just stumbled across this :

http://jkhub.org/tutorials/article/114-npc-classes-and-their-descriptions/

 

look under beast classes class_fish..... ? maybe you could test that one sometime

[ChalklYne]

im in the process of reanimating the colo claw fish. rigging something on the side for someone too, but its only 694 frames i do about 75 frames in a sitting... just fixing his anims a bit i wanted to rig the fish's "claws" to the howlers arms... so i could make em sway with the "water" and stuff... especially cuz its only 694 frames i could just reanimate the whole thing... and since im only like 150 frames into it i was debating starting over with the claws... but i really hate moving bones in world space while animating cuz it gets weird but ive done it before and it turned out actually quite good so yeah... this paragraph has convinced me, im starting over with his anims and hes gunna be pretty sick all things considered. good looking out on that research ashura im stoked to see if it helps

[Corto]

I was attacked by this thing at the Star Tours ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios, twice. I'm going to sue that travel agency. Now, seriously, it's looking fairly good and I bet it will look much better once you get it textured (or perhaps you already did and I missed the screenshots). Nice work. If I had the time I would model so much stuff =(.

[Corto]

I thought about some real criticism I could make. Based on your modeling skills, which I can tell by what you have already done, I think you could easily model some more detail into the model. More accurate claws, the teeth actually coming out from outside the lips and not from inside the mouth, the lateral line needs some extrusion and folding not just a hard edge. Again, you can stick with what you accomplished right now, but if you were able to get that far you can take it a step further. I will gladly do a draw over to explain more graphically what I mean.

[eezstreet]

I just stumbled across this :

http://jkhub.org/tutorials/article/114-npc-classes-and-their-descriptions/

 

look under beast classes class_fish..... ? maybe you could test that one sometime

 

CLASS_FISH doesn't do anything. It's a dummy. As is CLASS_CLAW.

[AshuraDX]

CLASS_FISH doesn't do anything. It's a dummy. As is CLASS_CLAW.

ah okay  ,to bad

[Vegeta]

So, is anyone up to the challenge of making any other aquatic creatures?

[Corto]

I gave it a thought, I haven't discarded it yet. I have to finish several things before I can start another one, but I would like to make a fantastic creature and this could be it.

[Vegeta]

Do topics disappear off of the list (at least from where people can see it) if they aren't viewed in a long time?

[ChalklYne]

hey did u animate that coloclawfish at all yet? or retexture him? or need anything else with him? i wanna see what kinda shaders u got goin for it man 

[Vegeta]

I made several shader attempts, but for some reason when I make a shader, it doesn't actually "save" it as a usable texture.  I tried editing the default skin file and made each texture have a shader, but the shaders didn't work, they just made him fully bright, with dark grey teeth.  I haven't tried animating him yet because I have been too busy with my other mapping projects.

[ChalklYne]

well lemme do the shaders then i guess? ill mess with it tonight

[Vegeta]

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