Crazy's Contribution Journal

[crazyghost]

With a surge of activity and motivation from the community I have made this thread as to log my contributions in one single area, rather than posting all over the place like a total forumscrub. I'll try not to spoil things, but I constantly ponder for feedback. I'd like to thank Box and Pike for there recent activities as it keeps me motivated. The more the merrier I think.

Flat Hatchet. Could be used for throwing or small 1Hnd melee.

http://i.imgur.com/KqB3riP.png

(increased brightness and contrast on axe to show up on black background better, distorts color slightly)

 

[crazyghost]

http://i.imgur.com/rNL9dN4.png

Was working on some helms.

 

[Jelly]

Looking good, man!

 

[Pike]

Yeah, cool looking hatchet you've got there Good job getting that unwrapping sorted out! You must have powered through that face-headache? lol

Unwrapping is a pain, and takes time to figure out. Now when I start a model I'm trying to think ahead to make unwrapping easier, just because it's so much more difficult than the actual modeling.

I also think feedback is important to grow! I like what you have done, and I'm certainly no industry pro, self taught, but practicing for about 15-20 years or so. Wireframe view also helps a lot with critiquing. Just two things I noticed:

I noticed that the curve and bevel at the bottom of the handle appears to be tapered backwards from the way most (but not all) hatchets appear. What I mean is the curve usually presses into the back of your fingers instead of to your thumb.

I'd also say good job on getting it so low poly, you've done so well in that regard that I think you could spend some extra polies to add some more shape to the head of the hatchet (especially if this is to be a view model that will be really close to the camera for a really long time.) The cutting edge of to blade in particular looks fairly flat. If you image.google.com "hatchet" it looks like generally they have more curve, especially toward the bottom of the striking surface. I think this is to make striking easier and avoid the tool jerking in your hand if you don't strike exactly flat.

All just my opinion. Again, good work, keep it up :?

Pike

PS. Helmets are looking good so far. They almost look modular, like you could mix and match parts. That'd be a really good idea.

 

[crazyghost]

http://i.imgur.com/HzhUnGX.png
Updated the hatchet a wee bit making better edges and rendered with mental.
Lemme know if this is more satisfying and where it may fail Pike. I want to dirty that wood texture a bit.

Next project is to animate a spell tomb until it looks so awesome.
Open the pages individually and rapidly.



and to Box; what say you about this mechanic?:

I was thinking even that PC could like hold out their customized spell book, and flip through using the scroll wheels or numbers to a particular page with that page having an individual look of the spell. Then imagine emitters of awesomeness and maybe spell pages flipping like crazy if its like a one time use of the spellbook spell then close or something like that.
Like wouldn't holding a spell book take one hand and then cast with the other? But if its a powerful spell you channel it all the pages flip and look cool, you put the book away and could have two hands for the animation if required.

Pike & Box:
Hands though? do we need new hands or are we using current hands? I wanna do some hand animations.

 

[Pike]

Nice! Looks really good. I didn't realize the textures were WIP. The hatchet head looks great now. The shape of the handle looks great, and I'm sure the dirt you plan to put on will make it look really realistic.

The hands we have now are WIP ones that BoX has made. I don't think we're at the point yet to need more than this set, because we'll have to match them to the player models anyway, once we get player models going. I was starting to plan for player models, but haven't actually started modeling anything yet.

 

[crazyghost]

Creating a spell book slowly but surely. It's actually my first rig. (besides the other ones today)

Side Screenshot :
http://i.imgur.com/BQzTcZU.png

2 Second Clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ef48JK ... e=youtu.be

I have to work that page again. I had such a hard time making the bones begin the mirror and i wanted to take a break from that and learn to export videos in the meantime. Break and comeback. I'll probably have to remake the page. So that there are some sort of grabbers on the corners so i can grab by the corner and then together and have it rest nicely on the otherside.

*textures off deviantart and googz.

 

[Pike]

That's actually quite good! I can see where you're heading with it. The textures look quite cool as well. Did you draw them?

 

[crazyghost]

Deviant art. But I'm going to improve and make varients in photoshop. The spellbook texture is someones halloweend prop.

I'm gonna make colored runes for the pages for each spell.

 

[Pike]

Ah, they look nice. Not sure if we should be 'lifting' anything that will actually be content for the game. As I understand it MSC is trying to now get rid of it's lifted content to go for a greenlight. If MSS even wanted to greenlight it'd be nice to have all original content.

ps. http://cgtextures.com/ is an excellent source of free textures. I recognize a lot of them from halflife and l4d infact.

 

[crazyghost]

I used all my allocation from CG ;'(

 

[crazyghost]

I will be original in the end.

 

[crazyghost]

http://i.imgur.com/CpZKS8l.png

Some crumby leather.

 

[Pike]

Ah OK, you seem to know all the tips already I usually download lower res textures when I know I'll be under a certain size. (Ie I don't need 1600x1600 to make a 1024x texture) and I think it resets daily?

Good work so far, animations aren't easy to do.

 

[crazyghost]

thought these were really good concepts for magic pages and ground effects :


https://slm-assets1.secondlife.com/asse ... 1277750639
http://th05.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2 ... 5gbq0y.jpg
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/ ... 1odqzx.jpg
http://xyee.deviantart.com/art/Colored- ... -120851841
http://syriankanachi.deviantart.com/art ... -154629289



look like fun to reproduce too

 

[BoX]

hmm it just so happens I need some images like that for something. I need some runes and symbols and such. Can I use some of these, and can you find more?

 

[Gorynych]

look like fun to reproduce too

Sorry, had to. Those symbols look fantastic, but do you have permissions to them?

 

[zeus9860]

What Gory said. Don't walk on that path... It will be a pain in the ass down the road.

 

[crazyghost]

Doooont worry. Originals will be made.

 

[Thothie]

Actually, I *think* some of those are rendered from Obsidian Dawn's collection, and we actually have permissions for those in MSC (just, never got around to actually using them), so I think it's safe to assume it can be used in MSS as well, if that's actually where they're from.

Here's a collection of those, plus some lore related circles OC, as well as some of the PD artwork that was used to create them (complete with license info):
http://www.thothie.com/msc_dev4/lore_symbols.rar

I think one of the licenses forbids vector artwork reproductions, but Source doesn't really support vector formats, SFAIK (maybe dicey, if you made it into a model, rather than a texture, but even then... Wouldn't preserve vector curves, so ya'd probably be good.)

 

[crazyghost]

wow Thothie this is great news.

 

[crazyghost]

Box, you tell me what you need it to be like and i can use the ones thothie said we can use, or develop a precise one you need, or a combo wombo.

 

[crazyghost]

Iron Swords

Balance versions?
Yo know like dark iron sword?
Dark one ways a lot and does like extra damage.
Light one weighs less.
I donno, food for thought.

http://i.imgur.com/FEAQ4tQ.png

 

[crazyghost]

Not that they are that important I just wanted to do some rings. very basic, not exquisite, non variant.

http://i.imgur.com/rxemI3G.png

But Felewyn's ring?

 

[crazyghost]

Dagger

http://i.imgur.com/ij3831r.png

Item Suggestions ::
Name ::Twisted Fate
Type :: Dagger 1 Handed Piercing.
Origin :: unknown
Used by : Cultist//Demon
Abilties :: Passive - 1% damage lifesteal?
Secondary : A long thrust with a long charge that if killing the target gives a larger % boost of health
Increased Parry?