Vade Parvis's Workshop: yet another neverending WIPs

[the_raven]

I love capes, I love cloaks and capes, I think every battle involving swords, sabers, etc, would be cooler if they had capes.

Agreed.

 

A (sort of) off-topic question: what's the difference between a cloak and a cape?

[Newmodder]

According to the internet a cape is used more for fashion while a cape is used for function. Cloaks include a hood? and capes are a shorter version of a cloak

[the_raven]

According to the internet a cape is used more for fashion while a cape is used for function. Cloaks include a hood? and capes are a shorter version of a cloak

Um, ok. Thanks.

[Newmodder]

Vade what are the chances of a new HD version of the Dark forces imperial commando?

 

 

 

 

[Xioth]

Um, ok. Thanks.

capes are usually much shorter then cloaks, real world capes are worn off the side, usually the shoulder, and rarely ever reach past the buttocks, cloaks are how us modern-day peeps see superhero capes, usually goes somewhere nearby the ankles.

 

Fun fact about cloaks, if a swordsman didn't have a shield/buckler with him, he could use the cloak as a shield, it was surprisingly effective at blocking blows with a sword specifically.

[Imperial Officer]

Vade what are the chances of a new HD version of the Dark forces imperial commando?

 

 

 

 

Navy Trooper is ready. Commando will be a skin.

[Revan9190]

Navy Trooper is ready. Commando will be a skin.

Can't wait to see what you've got.

 

[Imperial Officer]

Army sniper concept

 

[Imperial Officer]

Concept: Imperial Staff officer/Staff crew/Death Star Command sector crew

 

 

 

[Imperial Officer]

Everyone who follows the thread! We are alive and work is still progressing, as free time. I can say with confidence that Vade has completed the main stage of the updated version of the army helmet and is finalizing the general form of the mudtrooper helmet. Small details remain, like antennas and glasses. I have current renders, but I will not post them to avoid spoilers. Soon Vade will publish the results of the work as soon as the helmets are ready! A little more patience!

[colonel-the-general]

I like the mudtroopers.

[Barricade24]

Everyone who follows the thread! We are alive and work is still progressing, as free time. I can say with confidence that Vade has completed the main stage of the updated version of the army helmet and is finalizing the general form of the mudtrooper helmet. Small details remain, like antennas and glasses. I have current renders, but I will not post them to avoid spoilers. Soon Vade will publish the results of the work as soon as the helmets are ready! A little more patience!

Great to hear! Looking forward to see what you come up with!

[Newmodder]

Anyway we'll see a specnav foece trooper?

 

Ill try to find an image of it today

 

 

It's on page 79 here:

 

http://d6holocron.com/downloads/books/WEG40029.pdf

[Imperial Officer]

Anyway we'll see a specnav foece trooper?

 

Ill try to find an image of it today

 

 

It's on page 79 here:

 

http://d6holocron.com/downloads/books/WEG40029.pdf

Unfortunately, this picture is too uninformative to use as a reference. However, this description falls under the Imperial Ranger, with similar tasks. Sabotage, penetration, etc. He will, definitely. But we still have to make a high-quality scout trooper model to borrow its equipment.

 

 

Perhaps we will make subspecies for the army and navy. 

 

Also, there are some similar tasks imperial navy stormcommando from The Force Unleashed. They are in Lt. Claim's stormtroopers packs, but since they are ports from the console version of the game, they are of poor quality. We also planned to do a remake for them.

 

[Newmodder]

Nice!, i assume if you make the specnav they will be black instead of brown?

 

Also any chance to see these, or will you only do non concept art troopers?

 

SCAR trooper:

 

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/4/4d/Kreel_stormtrooper_squad.png/revision/latest?cb=20160627184601

 

Force awakens concept art trooper, the one beside the phasma concept:

 

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/4/4d/Starwarstfa09.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160422133732

 

I have to find 1 last one i saw before (imperial construction worker)

[Imperial Officer]

Nice!, i assume if you make the specnav they will be black instead of brown?

 

Also any chance to see these, or will you only do non concept art troopers?

 

SCAR trooper:

 

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/4/4d/Kreel_stormtrooper_squad.png/revision/latest?cb=20160627184601

 

Force awakens concept art trooper, the one beside the phasma concept:

 

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/4/4d/Starwarstfa09.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160422133732

 

I have to find 1 last one i saw before (imperial construction worker)

Of the concepts presented, we plan only snow flametroopers, as part of a remake of the original snowtrooper model. The rest is unlikely. Or we will not do them at all. In any case, everything will depend on the desire of Vade and only when we finish the work on the main Imperials.

[Vade Parvis]

Hello everyone! I apologize for not having any updates for a long time.

At first, I finished the main work on the OT-style cuirass at the end of August:

 

 

At the base of it's breastplate, reworked and combined with the Shoretrooper's backplate from Scerendo, I plan to try to make a Mudtrooper style variant later. Also I want to create a remake of the Battlefront 2 (classic) style officer cuirass in the form of a skin for the Moodtrooper's one.

Most of the autumn, I was almost inactive, only in October one day I tried to recreate one of the lost Hapslash's skins (admiral Ozzel's face) of which only a screenshot was preserved. This is the result (first image is the original screenshot from early 2000s, the rest is my remake based on it):

 

In recent days, I returned to the work on Imperials, and I can demonstrate the first results of the new helmets (OT and Solo style):

As always, big thanks to Imperial_Officer for references and comments on general outlines and details.

Notice that the goggles strap is an old abstract one, and I'm going to redo it more accurately. In addition, I want to more accurately recreate both types of tactical goggles later. I also think to save the current abstract version as classic Battlefront style option.

 

P.S. Thanks to this great update of the old mrwonko's Blender .glm exporter that was recently published at JKHub, work on player models has become much easier and much more enjoyable. No more torture with exporting custom vertex normals!

 

To make it clear how much easier it is to compile the model now. Previously, to get a model with the correct custom normals, not the mess with ugly shading and lots of unwanted seams, I had to:
1. transfer mesh with correct normal data into 3dsMax as .obj;
2. export .glm from Blender, without correct normals, but with skeleton and weight data;
3. open "incorrect" .glm in Max and manually save weight data from each mesh object into external files (later I began to use the first step of this script for that);
4. manually load external weight data for each object with the correct vertex normals transferred from blender via the .obj;
5. save model as .xsi, and manually rewrite names of tag objects names before that;
6. compile .glm model with correct custom vertex normals from .xsi in Assimilate (and without a detailed explanation provided by Asgarath83 and his configured copy of this program, I simply could not use it).
All this was turning final assembly of the model into torture, completely eliminated the possibility of fast compiling and testing in the game of unfinished WIP models and was just terribly demotivating.

 

 

[Kualan]

Nice job recreating that Hapslash screenshot! 

[colonel-the-general]

Amazing as always

[Vade Parvis]

WIP helmet antenna box:

[Imperial Officer]

Little progress on concepts.

 

Laser trooper:

 

I finalized the design, now I am thinking out how to convert a mudtrooper jacket into a coat.

 

AT-DT Driver

 

AT-DT drivers are stormtroopers, trained to drive AT-DT walkers. In the film Solo, stayed behind the scenes. In Force Arena and Pinball FX3 were embodied in a less similar form. Also, the driver could be seen on a poster in the Corellia spaceport. 

 

In Force Arena and Pinball FX3:

 

Corellia spaceport:

 

 

 

Very simple to implement, just need to make a back shield for the helmet with a rim and put it on the stormtrooper DT85 helmet. By the way, I wonder who would port the AT-DT Walker model from Binball FX3 to JA, with a working seat for the player and the NPC? Our AT-DT driver needs a job!)

 

Knee length officer's tunic and army troopers in greatcoat:

 

 

[Mysterious Stranger]

Ahh that stick!

 

Just personally curious, are you part of the 501st Legion @imperial_officer ?

[Imperial Officer]

Ahh that stick!

 

Just personally curious, are you part of the 501st Legion @imperial_officer ?

No, I am not in the 501st Legion. But like them, I seriously study the costumes of the Empire from films and comics. That is why, the models will now be as close as possible to the costumes.

[Vade Parvis]

The antenna box is close to completion:

[Imperial Officer]

Hello there! I announce the beginning of work on ballistic goggles for the commander’s helmet of General Veers, the AT-AT commanders and field officers. We rummaged through a lot of references to find the most reliable ones close to the film, therefore, we guarantee that the accuracy will be as close as possible to the film. Stay tuned to learn about progress!