ChalklYne

k.. im just practicing noses right now.. i wanna do the topology like the ref i posted.. but he has such a huge nose i keep screwing it up.. trial n error im just gunna keep making nose caps n nostrils til i get one about right might take me a while

im gunna pause for a sec here til i can get a couple good crits so i dont have to back track.. about to start the nose

yeah i been kinda compensating the angle for now u can kinda see it in the right ortho.. i caught that this time lol

are those kinda vert expensive or u think theyre good to go? if anything i can just model it as well as i can with no worry of polys, then go back later n maybe clean some stuff.. so yeah if u see me going a little deep on maybe the ears and the nose its cuz im gunna go back and hit it again n maybe clean it up some. i see it being maybe 1600 tris at the end if i keep going like i am

excuse the crappy animation i lost the old one and did this real quick to get the idea across

yeah that just is like 8 frames showing the way it has to move the tags

its also wiggling his saber tags lol  =)

any ideas on the animevents question?

gunna have to ask ashura thats my animevents dude

omagoodness...

getting everything ready to start a new one.. heres some things i am gunna keep an eye on.. post any more if u think theyll help

in lamens..

first he skooled us with shaders n mapping..

now he wants to murder us to sew up any loose ends

=)

this is the last adjustment im gunna make to this head before starting over.. ill have a new model going maybe tonight.. theres some screwups i just dont wanna go back thru the geometry n fix like his forehead n what not so ill def be starting over.. butnonetheless..

yeah. keep us posted.

refs4yoo

my bad dude.. yeah like i said.. im gunna start over from scratch.. but id gladly appreciate yer feedback so i dont make the same mistake twice lol thx dude

Would I be wrong if I thought your evo trooper was a port?

ridiculously.. 

u can see the evolution of the mesh as i adjusted everything. ill never port or steal i do this for practice to get better. and that would be kinda dumb lol

thx 4 the compliment tho i guess.. everytime i get accused of porting i feel like im getting a lil better lol

but that evo trooper is next after proxy to get a total overhaul anyway.. so if u think it looks ok now lol...

im gunna start this over.. but lemme point out some major screwups i  have when first starting a face and possibly nip it in the bud

the areas in red are parts where i cant really tell from the roto pics how much depth it has.. so i tend to make flat faces til it really starts coming together and i notice its all screwy.. big problem was i didnt know much about facial anatomy too and now that i spent today screwing with anatomy tuts im ready to give er another shot.. any pointers on these problem areas tho before i start?

thx for the profile pics man i looked everywhere i even scanned thru battlestar galactica and being human and couldnt find a decent one u rok bro thx

ive seen kobras dude lol.. and his was pretty damn good... in a lotta ways

i heard the shaded view of it was pretty bad.. but like i said i heard i never got to see it shaded

and perfect is a pretty difficult word to throw around in here

cuz to me it kinda looks like he got beat with something

im learning as i go and naw dude i wouldnt take offense lmao

im sure if u gave it a go it would look like garbage.. no offense lol

and taking a look at kobras work would be inspirational if anything, but not used as a reference dude

ive got plennnnnty of nice references, and like i said im learning as i go. but im not intimidated by hellkobras starkiller. inspired if anything.

i will work on this little by little as i go and hope to not only have a decent starkiller, but a decent original rendition of sam witwer and an extensive knowledge gained thru trial and error. 

and u know what i really enjoy? decent feedback dude.. dont just tell me he looks like paper silly boy..

lmfao

give me some feedback. what looks like paper? his straps? trying to save space.. his textures? we assessed my texturing looks rather cartoonish and i need to spend time focusing on shading and tones.. put a little effort in there big dog and i can address the issues if need be.

fret not tho there young fella.. im not releasing this until hes done. and by done i mean spot on

i just have no real reason to rush it, and im focusing on one area at a time. im really glad i learned how to create hand painted normal maps tho that is pretty badass.. and im really proud of how i stuck with it and never took any of the ridiculous amount of trolling over my learning process seriously lol. or id prolly be done modelling right about now. so never think im gunna take straight offense unless u give me crap feedback and mock my efforts. 

and didnt somebody say hk's starkiller was just a buncha frankensteined stuff? 

anyways.. i enjoy any artists work. its the effort i dig.

ill get there soon.. and it wont be thestarkiller yer familiar with.. but more of a sam witwer hopefully.. cuz to me they look a bit different.. and i dont want a manny llamas rendition.. i want a chalks rendition.. soon enough

paper or not im really not ashamed at how hes looking now.. u can tell i been paying a little attention lol

corto pointed me to a pretty awesome skin tone tutorial so hopefully pretty soon he'll start looking less vampiric lol


 

anybody got something they need rigged all ready to go?

hrmm.. lemme edit this a bit...

anyone have any model they created that needs rigging? dont be sending me some crazy model all posed by some anonymous artist n expect me to steal his work, repose it, segment it, and everything lol 

a model created by u for jka lol

yeah i just wasted like the better part of an hour trying to fix up that aat... its crap. even if i fixed it all... the thing was modelled kind of janky and it wouldnt be optimized at all buncha wasted verts here n there.. everything is segmented like.. by faces? so say the turret.. isnt a group.. a couple faces of it are.. then a couple faces go to another group etc.. and even if i merged it all real nicely id have to go back n pretty much start each peice over to optimize it for better gameplay.. so uhhh.. mini.. u wanna finish yers dude?

faces duplicated.. verts not welded for like half of the verts cylinders with 20 sides simple geometry instead of extruded is just mashed separate geometry together.. yeah i cant do it.. and still b able to sleep at nights knowing i let it happen lol

hell i dunno

ive filled so many damn requests dude

ive been a part of plenty of mods that i specifically ask them not to credit me for lmao

but.. truth be told...

ive prolly turned down 1 cuz the level of difficulty..  asked me to make an animated menu all in softimage then convert it to roqs so they could have an "hd" menu with bump maps n stuff.. but i was like i dunno dude lol prolly take me better part of 6 months to finish everything he was talking about..

other than that i usually fill requests no worries

id just much rather them all be like this lmao

maybe i just relate to the level of grammatical incomprehension lol

ill tell u something u might find a bit funny... im always un-autocorrecting my phone teaching it to be as retarded as i am lmfao

everytime i send a text its like.. dude... b-rad... no lmao

but its slowly dumbing down

Please, please reskin this to Gregor. The original default skin may look cartoonish, but you know how to put realm into these skins. Pls, reskin this to Gregor, and my dream will come true.

Haha. This guy ^

 

omagoodness...lmfao

i LOVE these type of requests and wished i got more.. ive prolly gotten maybe 20 niiiice requests via google translate. people from other countries are so nice lol ive never turned down one of these. ever.

everytime i see one its like a little kitten i wanna pick up n squeeze til it pops

dont get me wrong brother yer english is prolly better than mine.. im just saying.. if u approached me and said "hey chalk, i really like your work and it would mean a lot to me if on your spare time u could work on a model for me" yer prolly not gunna get it filled as quickly as the guy that hit me up n goes "hi chalk i need saber for obi wan shiny style like gold u make for me fast i love your face long time"

i listen to a lot of anilyst, immortal technique, dzk, and myself  =X

did they have to add and define all the

"damage": 
"ballistic": true,
"projectiles":
"ammocost": 
"firedelay":
"recoil": 

etc... or is that how it is defined in the code all self explanitory like that?

ahhhh... im so glad i can kinda read this now... me likey...

i might just totally stray off from modelling to finish comprehending this c++

me likey lots

thats like... serious customizing for everything. which is killer

i think i know what yer talking about theoretically...

granted im still going thru the tutorials on how to even read code.. but...

theoretically...

it would need to be something like when the code defines saberstyle_1...

and u replace it to something like saberstyle_x...

then u define saberstyle_x to use whatever u name as xxxxx.sty is right?

so it knows to change the saberstyle to whatever u name.sty?

am i close here? 

but then every saberstyle u add wouldnt actually be nothing like a .sab file.. itll be a small chunk of code i think?

so i figured id finish up the repulse since its going in starkillers animation set that im releasing with starkiller. its not just an anim tho its a fully functioning repulse... but.. i have some minor issues id like to work out n get some help on..

first... refraction? any ideas on how to fake it maybe with a warped texture alpha?

2nd.. the repulse i made back in the day replaced the entire desann style.. which i didnt care cuz i was making a full tfu mod./.. but now that im all alone on this 1.. i just want to have a tfu style character and i dont wanna rewrite much..so.. if i add a line like this into animevents.cfg

AEV_FIRE    1868   0   0

then it should "fire" on frame 1868 (the 5th frame of BOTH_BOW)... and change the bow anim to where it strikes the ground at the 5th frame... then when i bow it should strike the ground correct? i gets nothing. and i dont wanna rewrite a whole style like before because its the saber and the anim that make the repulse work. not just an anim. so i wrote a cfg that looks like this

unbind F9

saber repulse
wait 10
bow
wait 150
saber starkiller

bind F9 exec repulse

it should work. (i unbind the repulse then rebind after its executed so people wont hit the button 15 times while hes repulsing and end up doing 15 consecutive repulses lol) it works pretty good.. if i do this..

unbind F9
saber repulse
wait 10
+attack
wait 30
-attack
wait 80
saber starkiller

bind F9 exec repulse

and change the repulse saber to the desann style or something and just rewrite all his attacks to be the repulse

the anim needs to look something like this..

excuse the crappy animation i lost the old one and did this real quick to get the idea across

now.. my only issues is making the space inside the repulse look like it has some refraction, and making bow exec a fire, or finding out how to exec a kata from a cfg and possibly just use a kata attack from a different style maybe? i dunno..

but there it is i just need a little picking of the communitys brain to wrap it up

any ideas?