AshuraDX

Bevels: the fatter the better, of course sometimes it's down to personal choice but you can't argue with normal maps, that's just how it works.

 

Push modifier example: I'm not sure what your topology looks like but add a push modifier on the shoulder plates, increase slightly until your get nice rounded edges instead of sharp thin ones, same principle as chunky bevels but the beauty of that method is you can adjust in real time without the need to play with edge tightness.

did you ever hear of the quad chamfer modifier by Marius silaghi ? it's a very nice tool

@@Cerez watch out for those n-gons, the mouth sides could use an edgeloop or 2 more aswell

does it have UVs yet ?

made a woven cloth kind of thing :

Substance Designer again

as I understood him they are not fleshy enough

Could you elaborate on the push modifier? I'm not following you. Over the top bevels? Explain.

 

The details were carved when the low poly base was subdivided twice.

no clue what he wants to do with a push modifier here but about these bevels, make them "fatter than yo momma"

check out @@Psyk0Sith's earlier post that should make it clear

Dude, that's from like XP and XP is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo obsolete.

 

I don't think I could take anyone who uses XP seriously these days ESPECIALLY when the OS is so severely limited in terms of hardware and RAM.

no issues, you just imported a very high poly mask model for this

it's tri count is actually that high - it's not a display issue as you seem to assume

you need to get another model of that mask or better make it yourself

@@Kualan - it needs a reskin - badly

some pinching at the back plate, if you show me the topology I could probably offer suggestions how to fix that

Is that the Xenomorph aka "Alien series" alien tail you used ?

Oh, sorry.  I suppose I read your question incorrectly the first time.  I place the .shader files in the folder titled "shaders" within the .pk3s.

 

@@eezstreet

 

I'm not sure why, but your suggestion worked.  The game must have been determined to use the original gfx.shader file over the new one that I created, because as a result, overwriting the old gfx.shader worked.  Do you have any idea why the new .shader files I was making could not overwrite the old one?

what did you name your new shaderfile like ?

they re loaded in a set order afaik and if the old shader file is loaded after your new shaderfile it will overwrite the information from your file with the original file information

@@DT85 after examining some of his shots it's quite cleear that he's using mostly quads around the mouth, or atelast I could not spot any triangles

but I have to agree that the corners of her mouth are very sharp right now - too sharp

the corners  could also use a slight lift as @@Cerez pointed out

If I remember correctly you're going to have a bad time fixing this up though @@Archangel35757

You are not working with a subdivided mesh here, are you ?

if you don't then you got a very high density mesh at your hands and therefor a few hundred vertices to tweak by hand - I'd recommend using soft selection in this case

combined with clever use of the relay tool you might be able to get the alterations done quite fast

an alternative would be using the paint deformation tools in max (which max 8 doesn't have afaik) or importing the mesh into mudbox and using the grab + smooth brush to

reshape those areas.

EDIT :  if you are not working witzhj a subdivided mesh I'd recommend doing a retopology of your current mesh, focusing on topology, not shape and then use a turbosmooth modifier to smooth it out

if done correctly you should be able to retain the shapoe of your current head - with a lot less vertices to tweak and also : if you keep your initial retopo low in vertex and tri count you could technically use it as a basis for your lowpoly

I never did retopo in max 8 but I think there's a very nice script called "WrapIt" somewhere,  for retopo I'd move the scene to a newer max version that offers Graphite Tools, alternatively you could use mudbox 2014 and above or 3d coat for quick and easy retopo

Also : why even bother using max 8 - you made working in newer max versions entirely possible ?

For all we know, it's some ancient sith saber sword that has special meaning. I'd say don't knock the saber until we know why it looks how it does. Could be something that makes alot of sense.

 

 

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I dunno, it just seems logical that I pick this up after my Maul model. No idea when I'll get around to it though, and it would only have textures for rend2.

I'll gladly to a covnersion from rend2 to base JKA if you need me to

all I'll need are your bakes and the model in .obj

Noesis can do that

@@DT85 his head shape seems quite off... is this an orthographic shot without perspectivic distortion ?

without the suit and the general idea of who he is supposed to be I wouldn't recognize him there 8still hardly do that)

getting good likeness to a person can be quite difficult when modeling

Edit first thing i'd say is thicker lips, push his cheekbones slightly outward and the ears a bit inward, wider chin

his nose is actually not perfectly horizontal and the nose tip should be pushed a bit upwards I think

http://assets.cdn.moviepilot.de/assets/store/33cb18421662cb2de124283e443c52a9e5776e39138d2af2271b564d21a5/john-boyega-01.jpg

Only Game related to Metal gear solid I played was Metal Gear rising - not reall comparable but still a lot of fun (to me)

I reverted because it was causing other problems (weird sound, messed up resolution in CS:GO)

also most likely a driver related issue

I like the drawing, reminds me a lot of the dark wraith armor from Dark Souls

The model rendition is not too close to the drawing, maybe you'll consider adding his battle outfit aswell

Keep it up ! Allways nice to see new people pick up modeling for JKA

Congrats !

She's beautiful, keep it up - who knows what you mgiht surprise us with next ?

Congrats !

She's beautiful, keep it up

neat !

looks like my rayman gets some friends to play with

oh nice !

I'd reduce the darkness inbetween her shoulder blades a lot more though, right now it's shaded like a very deep "hole" in her back - which it's not so go a bit lighter there

about kicking with a gun : you could try editing weapons.dat first before thinking about a code mod

use dropbox or mediafire

okay so I can keep trieing to sell that old thing nobody seems to want 

@@Veosar take a look at the end of scope, and the 2 scope mounts for example

you will notice that some triangles don't show the reflection at all

@@Xycaleth would you be interested in that Nvidia Card for debugging ? If you pay the shipping costs I'll gladly send it over