AshuraDX

well I have been tweaking this to resemble starkiller more as I didn't see him in the textured head mesh anymore

but I sort of lost interest in finishing this model for the moment

I dont know what bothers me though , I'd guess the eyes but I'm not sure

the texture is all handpainted , except a radial lbur filter for the iris and alittle blur here and there

that is pretty nice , you just have to fix those ears

it's far from done though and I dont even know when or if i'll finish it

oh dear god...
I should really work at my assignment but... mudbox :|

nose is at a wrong angle , lips are protruded way to far (that duckface is far too strong )

ears should be a little lower and bigger I think

I really like the textures though , are they photosourced and retouche din Zbrush or completely handpainted ?

I'd like to see one like this, love the concept:

 

 

 

damn.....

probably I'll give this a shot sometime

@@Asgarath83 the model is not mine it's made by @@minilogoguy18

I was just texturing it , and I plan to finish it If I can find my old psds somewhere on my external drive

hm that's interesting

could oyu upload your gloss image to imgur or something and post a link here ?

hm good question , the first thing I'd do is bring this stage

{

map models/players/shadow_stormtrooper2/armor-spec

blendFunc GL_SRC_ALPHA GL_ONE

detail

alphaGen lightingSpecular

}

below all others

then  probably you could recreate the old shader and test both shader variants in the same spots , and see if the old one behaved similiar

or you could brighten up the gloss image a little

@@Psyk0Sith nope Kain is not textured , I was going to do so and had quite some progress

I knid of forgot about that , until now

I'll see wether I can find my old psd's and probably get back to it sometime soon

so.... can I mark this as solved @@Asgarath83 ?

shiiiit.... how many effects are you running at the same time ?

well I can only tell you to reduce the amount of efx used in your mod 

you should know : a ton of effects =/= spectacular mod , if these effects are very flashy , bright and colorful it will also burn the players eyes out

also - please work on your english

it's often kinda hard to get what you are saying , you dont have to in any way but I doubt I'm the only one who thinks so

You're probably using way too many tris/polygons.
The effect gets repeated for each glow chunk of the saber I believe. Try it out with 1 particle, 200ms life and a simple white shader. Note how many times the effect gets repeated.

nope , the effect get's only displayed once for each tag_blade in your weapon model

Well, Uvmapping distorsion, maybe yu create  a new division: metal trooper!

it's not the UVs that are fucked up , the mesh normals are fucked up

my saberbuilder worked like this :

I made a single w_saber.glm file including all of the parts

these parts are named :

Emitter1-3;Body1-3;Button1-4;Handle1-3;Pommel1-3
 

the Saberbuilder I made actually just generated .skin files that *offed all parts that were not chosen and

gave the pieces the chosen textures

here are some examples :

Emitter1,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Emitter2,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/Emitter4.tga
Emitter3,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Body1,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Body2,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/Body4.tga
Body3,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Button1,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Button2,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/Buttons1.tga
Button3,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Button4,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Handle1,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Handle2,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/Handle4.tga
Handle3,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Pommel1,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Pommel2,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/Pommel4.tga
Pommel3,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga

Emitter1,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/Emitter2.tga
Emitter2,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Emitter3,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Body1,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/Body2.tga
Body2,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Body3,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Button1,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/Buttons4.tga
Button2,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Button3,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Button4,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Handle1,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/Handle2.tga
Handle2,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Handle3,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Pommel1,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/Pommel2.tga
Pommel2,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga
Pommel3,models/weapons2/saberbuilder/off.tga

the program also generated a .sab file which directed the game to display the specified name and directed to the .skin file connected to that name

for example , assumnig your saber was named Test the Saberbuilder would write this in a .sab file:

//Generated by SaberBuilder 0.5 C:AshuraDx
Test
{
name "Test"
saberType SABER_SINGLE
saberModel "models/weapons2/Saberbuilder/Saberbuilder.glm"
customSkin Test
saberLength 40
saberColor random
}

in the end my tool ran a command line command which simply zipped up all the required files for your personal hilt (the .skin and .sab file) and in the end renamed the file from .zip to .pk3

that's the whole "magic" behind my old Saberbuilder so no @@ChalklYne you dont need to save a few hundred models

I bet this could and most likely would be done differently for an ingame editor

an Ingame editor should work like the character customization :

this will require the creator of a new "saber parts pack" that's going to be added to the saber customization menu to

create small .skin files for each of their emitters , handles , pommels and buttons (or whatever pieces you want to be interchangeable)

If I knew anything about coding in C or C++ I could probably pull that off as I bet you can just copy&paste the Player customization code , and then make some alterations

but as my Programming skills are limited and I allready tend to produce a huge mess in simple programming languages like java I'll leave that to the more experienced coders on this site

Try to keep the paint pieces as sharp&crisp as possible ,it'S supposed to look like paint was scratched off

not smudged around so you dont want any other opcity values than 100-90% and 10-0%

Maybe someone then should just try to break the model at the UV seams before export in an attempt to preserve the normals, in the game the 'hard' edges are noticeable when light hits them.

tried that , have to wait for this converter to be finished or find my old max 2010 installer

pass me your pk3 via pm please , I'll try to find the error  and correct it for you

I'll leave comments in your shader so you'll be able to find out what I changed

@@Rage , for your candle Light shader you could try 3 things :

a. use yiour candle shader as spriteimage for a sprite drawing shader , then apply that sprite shader to a little plane that's horizontal above the candle

the sprite should then get drawn upright on top of the plane and should allways turn to face the player

b.simply use FX runners  for your candle flames

c. (for cheap) just use 2 planes with your candlelight shader and turn the copy around 90°

Use the AT-ST lreferences I posted andm odle the legs after them , then modle a basic ST head (just a box)

and model your CT head using that box for scale reference

I can remember drawing side and front sketches for the CT "head" myself , I'll see if I can find them but I highly doubt it

//hiddenblade
models/weapons2/hiddenblade/w_blade
{
    q3map_nolightmap
    cull    twosided
    {
        map models/weapons2/hiddenblade/w_blade
        blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ZERO
        rgbGen lightingDiffuse
    }
    {
        map models/weapons2/shortsword/env_chrome
        blendFunc GL_DST_COLOR GL_SRC_COLOR
        detail
        alphaGen const 0.1
        tcGen environment
    }
    {
        map models/weapons2/hiddenblade/w_leather
        blendFunc GL_SRC_ALPHA GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA
        rgbGen lightingDiffuse
    }
    {
        map  models/weapons2/hiddenblade/w_blade_spec
        blendFunc GL_SRC_ALPHA GL_ONE
        detail
        alphaGen lightingSpecular
    }
}

here are the used textures

w_blade :

w_leather :

so you have to prepare yourt extures like this ,

my w_leather is used to cover up areas that are not supposed to shine therefore I alphamapped all areas that should shine out 

after preparing a copy oif your texture like this you just have to add this between your specular and ENV stage

    {
        map models/players/shadow_stormtrooper2/armor_nogloss
        blendFunc GL_SRC_ALPHA GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA
        //detail - remove the slashes and this text in order to make this stage detail
        rgbGen lightingDiffuse
    }

proportions are f*cked
 
check this out :

and you should check this out aswell , these will help you with the general shape , proportions and detail of a generic AT-ST
I Used these ref pics back when I made my AT-Walker models and jsut altered the pilotbooth and weapons for the KT and CT variants
 
here are further pics of my old AT-CT for you

I'd use overlays to cover the parts that are not supposed to shine

simply create an alpha channel on a copy of your texture that's transparent in places the model is supposed to shine

and put that as an alphamapped diffuse stage above the shine stage in your shader

if you need an example for this check out my assassins Creed weapons pack

I used this for the hidden blade I think

nope never experienced that @@Archangel35757