Kualan

You made that Plo Koon from the Clone Wars? Or it ended just on the concept?

It has been frankensteined (I don't like to call what I do 'modelling'), yes. It hasn't been fully tested in-game yet though.

After posting the above I had a brainwave on how to make another clone variant seen in the films. This one has been made in the last hour though so is in a very rough 'first draft' format:

The torso skin is a placeholder via the AT-AT pilot skin from MovieBattles (I think). The top half of the helmet comes from the base rebel pilot model whilst the lower half is sourced from DT's Stormtrooper model!

Found some JKA time this week, so worked on some clone variants I hope to release in a future 'super-customisation' pack. Two of these can be seen in the recent issue of my webcomic:

The full version of Issue Thirteen - Echoes Of The Past Part One - is now available on the website! As always, feedback is appreciated.

http://www.talesfromtheclonewars.net/

The 'Egg and Dunk' novellas by George R R Martin.

It's been a while since the last issue - so much happened since then!

 

I like the idea, that Railas Tok present during the difficult decision for mace Windu - abandoning a little boy on Ord Mantell for his own good.

One of the downsides to the Clone Wars TV series was that we didn't get a chance to see many of the Jedi duties that didn't directly contribute to the war. The only exception I can think of is the Jedi Younglings Arc, but even that involved the war in the later episodes. So things like testing potential younglings, etc are elements I'd like to portray further in future issues of the comic.

Been a bit delayed with work recently (you may have noticed I've not updated my Kitbash thread either) but here's a preview for Volume Thirteen - Echoes of the Past, Part One:

If you're just frankensteining, you shouldn't need to re-parent anything to 'root_0'. A new head gets parented to 'torso_0' for example, so the scale will match the torso it is being parented to.

Parenting a part of a model to 'root_0' is basically telling that part of the model to bypass the rest of the hierarchy, hence its size ballooning - since it has nothing to match its scale to. This also happens if you get liberal with deleting parts of a model - delete 'torso_0' for example, and everything that was originally parented to that will be thrown out of the hierarchy, resetting to 'root_0' as a parent by default and resulting in the ballooning.

If you need to get rid of that torso though and replace it with another but still keeping some of the original parts parented to it (like the arms for example) you first need to bring the new torso into the hierarchy ('torso2_0' for example) and then re-parent the arms, etc to that new torso. Only once this is done can you then safely delete the original 'torso_0'.

The maps are very nice. Faithful recreations.

Another gallery from SWCA, for reference:

http://www.rebelscum.com/2015-Celebration-Anaheim/Star-Wars-Celebration-Anaheim-2015-Anovos/

Or @@Kualan could frankenstein his Mace Windu poncho from his comics onto her after this is released. One step at a time yall.

Would be happy to rustle up a few variations for this model when it's ready, but I'm a little low on JKA time at the minute. Still have a project with @@Mandalorian I want to get back to when work-life lets up again.

Awesome Temple Guard saber, Rooxon. Spitting image of the one in the show!

@@Kualan Here you go!

Yum, can't wait for it to be approved for DL. Thanks so much for taking up the request

Hopefully the writer does this tactfully and make her a character who just happens to be lesbian, and not "the" lesbian.

This.

Agreed, and I don't see how a lesbian woman gets that far in the already established humanocentric chauvinist empire, but it's all apart of Disney's retcons I guess.

The Disney retcons have kept the humanocentric elements of the Empire, but seem to favour a more gender-neutral approach. Female stormtroopers appear in the new Tarkin novel, and to be honest this strikes me as more believable. Who cares if your comrade in arms has boobs when you're worried about keeping the blue tentacled alien out of the barracks?

Seeing Dantooine is nice. Did you make this appearance partly as a reference to the battle of Dantooine, originally seen in Clone Wars animated series? There Mace Windu would lead the forces against the droids and their new weapon. And a small farm boy would see the battle from afar.

 

When I got to last but one page I also had a question, why the Enclave would be so clean. I am glad, that you thought this aspect through, not leaving behind the fact, that the whole structure seemed intact.

 

SW Galaxies establish the ruins in a different state, mostly a few arches and colomns remain, nothing would remind of former Enclave. But I prefer the fact, that ruins would look like the ones in KOTOR.

The Dantooine-Windu connection is indeed a subtle nod to that scene in the original animated series, yeah. Interesting point about the enclave though - I had no idea it also featured in SWG.

My Internet is still jittery at the moment, but I managed to upload some Separatist models that I know folks wanted. These are in their raw /models folder format, so can be used for people's mods etc but are not assembled for full integration in the game yet. So for now I've just uploaded to Dropbox rather than the Hub:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jhvn824etqflq93/SeparatistLeaders.rar?dl=0

I summon @@Kualan. I believe he has one.

Hate to disappoint, but I've never even started on a Talzin model. She is on my list of characters I would like to attempt at some point though.

Volume Four Issue Twelve - Cutting Ties - is now uploaded to http://www.talesfromtheclonewars.net/ !

A re skin of Hapslash's Anakin might work. Save your cash though man. If someone does the skin I'll be happy to frankenstein some accessories to it. Cloak, scabbard etc.

What stance/animation mod do you use for those?

The pistol/rifle animations? I have about a dozen different _humanoid folders in my JKA directory for the comic but I -think- those particular ones are from JKG?

I think he means he wants one model of the blade, and a second one of the blade still in its scabbard.

I hope they all get ponchos over their armor. Ponchos fix everything.

QFT

I can save you the trouble and send you the Geonosian model seen in this picture, credited to Wytchking I believe. You'll need his permission to release it publicly:

I'll send you it along with an Episode Three Nute Gunray and Lott Dodd I've been working on for my comic, in a pack alongside the Neimoidian Guard. I just need to fix something with the Guard first - his helmet keeps clipping with the head because they seemed to be weighed differently.

I finally got my hands on the latest issue. It's has a very nice tie-in with Dantooine, and the story with Tok develops in the right way. It's not very novice regarding the fact, that Dooku tries to have someone Force-sensitive to serve him, but this someone actually disobeys him eventually. But I like the conflict between the separatists as well, though Tok is mostly likely now one of them.

 

The case with Mace Windu and this Tameron is also a sign towards Episode III, it seems. I mean that he is harsher than most of the Jedi, and would even practice certain techniques, avoided by most of the members of the Jedi Order. I mean In Episode III there is a duel with Palpatine and Windu uses the same phrase as Palpatine a little earlier. "Not very Jedi-like", as Tavion would say.

Thank you the feedback, NumberWan. Windu's actions in this issue were a direct reference to his "end justifies the means" attitude in Episode III so I'm glad that came across. As for Dooku's latest acolyte obeying him...needless to say Tok isn't going to be happy about taking orders from Grievous for long!

Reshaping the helmet is one thing, the rest of the body is a different story, as the torso and limbs need to fit the JKA skeleton.

And to be honest, personally it was only the helmet that ever bothered me.