Shadowknight1

Why is that ship not symmetrical...its bugging the heck out of me.

lol, that's part of its charm for me, I like some odd designs sometimes.  The refit of the Rogue Shadow in TFU2 was perfectly symmetrical though.

Honestly, I'd use the 3DS version of Ocarina of Time as a reference rather than the N64 version.  Closer to creator's original intent and much more colorful.

DT, I've noticed that you're revamping a Dark Forces Kyle Katarn mod.  Have you considered revamping Mara's Mysteries of the Sith model?

Why Lucas did that I dunno. :/

 

I'll do a reskin of the saber, it will prolly be a bridge between the two versions but I'm going for an ESB look over EP3.

There's a really good ESB hilt out there made by Khaliban.

It does slant in the movie though, some. Cool, it's hard to tell from the angle you posted. I wasn't expecting it to work.

 

It's the same hilt...

No, it actually isn't.  There are many differences between the Ep3 hilt and the Ep5 hilt.

Empire Strikes Back

Revenge of the Sith

I wouldn't use an Ep3 Anakin saber, not for accuracy's sake.

I'd love a Satele Shan model/skin.

She looks ready to lop it off.

Considering that Luke was running around like Daffy Duck on speed, I wouldn't blame her.  I'm just glad I caught him at a moment where he was both still, facing the camera and Mara, wasn't shoving his butt into the camera, and hadn't run into her lightsaber.

Is Luke trying to grope her? Mara is looking at the retextured Gweth like she's about to say "Umm...really?"

Naw, he's using the "staff" stance from OJP.  Dumb NPC was spazzing out all over the place, finally nabbed a shot when he held still for more than an eighth of a second.

Could be a shader issue.  Definitely not a HUGE deal, just an oddity at the moment.

Made some screenshots of Mara!

She doesn't seem to light up as much as others, but that's fine I think.   That last image is with my old retexture.  This new one is a vast improvement!

I would have liked to make my own from scratch, but now there's narshadda to worry about. I'll have a look over Mara tonight and finalise everything, then upload it here.

You can always worry about a version 2 later.  Though I'd like to see how you would design her outfit based on Zahn's descriptions for when you make your own.

EDIT: The suspense is killing me!

Very nice indeed!

A master of understatement.

How many variants are there going to be?

I think it's ready to go. I've finished the weights, but couldn't do the eyes (face_dead look) as the face mesh doesn't match up properly. She can still talk and frown though.

Sweet!

...I have no idea what any of that means.   Nor do I need to know. lol

So really, what all is left to do other than finalizing the character?

Sweet jesus I'd be sculpting instead of retexturing right now if that were so lol.

 

For JKA, I don't see much of a point to spend time sculpting high res models. It's quicker to make the object and texture it for me.

Not to mention super-duper high res textures would be kind off pointless in a game with such a dated engine.

So, what exactly is left to do?

I haven't really touched the skin, but there is specular Hapslash made for the skin so that should be sufficient in JKA.

Indeed, it's not like this is a next-gen PS4 game model

So she wears a pair of shoulder straps over her bodysuit for no reason?

 

She's one crazy Mara.

You should see the figure I based the original skin on.  The straps on that figure do NOT connect at the back or at all.  And I think it could easily support a small pack of some kind.

Only suggestion I can make is to lose the goggles on the ones without the cape.  You already beat me to something I was going to mention by putting in the thing on her back that the shoulder straps attach to.  I totally messed that up with my version. -_-'

Ok well, E11 I won't do cuz of it's size but the DL-44 seems better. I'll do that one instead.

Welp, that's definitely your call.

I'm just going off of the 501 site refs which have the holdout blaster holstered on the belt. What's the standard blaster pistol called? If it's an already made weapon in JKA, I'll just use that instead of making my own as you won't see half of the model.

That is kind of the problem.  She uses a variety of blasters.  In fact, the two previous action figures of her seemed to use a similar, but larger, snub-nose blaster like the one you got from the 501 site while the new figure uses a new blaster entirely.  She's been known to use an E-11 blaster rile, a DL-44, and a DL-18.

Lol, the aim here for me is to not have a large blaster on her leg which is why I chose the holdout pistol.

Except Mara uses a standard blaster pistol.  The tiny as hell hold out pistol you chose is "supposed" to be in a forearm holster(which is one reason why most Mara fans hate the jumpsuit).  Now, I would definitely say to keep that in mind for when you do your interpretation of Mara if you do so.

He clearly doesn't approve of your choice in weaponry.

 

What about this one?

 

Belt looks good!  That image of the Mara figure I posted earlier has a pretty neat blaster design.  Don't know the type, but I think it works for her.

Already said what kind of blaster I thought worked for her.

Ehhh...at least the blaster will be in the holster.

And thanks!