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thanks , another update. (sorry this is taking so long i havnt uv mapped something weird to me like a rat before)
One more try... Giant Rat Remake.
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Moar!
I dunno what skin you intend to use, but I know the one on the original model was very segmented, and thus maybe difficult to wrap - lest you wanna go making snap shots of the original from all sorts of odd angles.
I dunno what skin you intend to use, but I know the one on the original model was very segmented, and thus maybe difficult to wrap - lest you wanna go making snap shots of the original from all sorts of odd angles.
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i want to try and make the skin myself. sometimes im fairly good at making textures.
these are my current uv's:
iv never uv mapped something shaped like this, so im following a layout i found to learn.
these are my current uv's:
iv never uv mapped something shaped like this, so im following a layout i found to learn.
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Much better than the skin the WW guys apparently stole. I also VERY much appreciate one-piece textures like that - it makes reskinning MUCH easier... Those orcs, with their 50 different textures, are a royal pain to skin, and you get all sorts of "stretchies" in the effort... FER tried to do something about that for me, but it didn't work out so good.
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The tail to me still looks a little stretched out. But If you skin it and it comes out well, then by all means. Looks good!
Quite awesome IMO. 
Did you used some program in spedial to unwrap the wireframe or just did it by hand
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im using 3ds max 2010 and pretty much doing it by hand. still working on it.
Its not finished yet. have "some" stretching to fix and a couple peices of the mesh i still havnt touched.
P|Barnum said:
Its not finished yet. have "some" stretching to fix and a couple peices of the mesh i still havnt touched.
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finished with the uv im pretty sure.
for anyone who wants to try:
for anyone who wants to try:
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The back legs still look a little stretched. (The squares looking a little bigger than the rest of the body)
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ok ill work on it more then, first thing when i wake up.
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Looks very good, wtb epic weapons from epic looking rats!
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since iv tried to redo the uv, iv been having couple of issues with it. taking a small break... so i dont end up rushing them... updates soon.
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Any updates?
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We didnt praise him enough?
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Well... i don't know what's going on with his rats... but I added some animations to your rat Thothie.. (download from http://membres.lycos.fr/eskimobob/Released/rat.mdl ) I seriously suck at animation, but i guess that slapping it on the original skeleton is better than nothing
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Wow... That is... The creepiest rat I have ever seen. 
I dunno if there's some way to fancy those anims a bit - maybe give it some mouth movement or something to make it seem a bit less stiff. I realize these are the same anims the current rat is using (or I guess they are) but they do seem quite odd on this thinner rat.
I wish I could somehow extract the original anims for the model. It has some very nice and smooth anims - its back is made up of maybe 6 joints that flow in a wave when it runs, kinda like a cat's would (or, in this case, like a rat's would).
I dunno if there's some way to fancy those anims a bit - maybe give it some mouth movement or something to make it seem a bit less stiff. I realize these are the same anims the current rat is using (or I guess they are) but they do seem quite odd on this thinner rat.
I wish I could somehow extract the original anims for the model. It has some very nice and smooth anims - its back is made up of maybe 6 joints that flow in a wave when it runs, kinda like a cat's would (or, in this case, like a rat's would).
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Dunno if a vid of the original anims would help:
Cleaner, AVI vid: http://www.thothie.com/msc_dev3/ratvid_comp.avi
Cleaner, AVI vid: http://www.thothie.com/msc_dev3/ratvid_comp.avi
:?
Really the boneset of that rat model has something wrong, seems like its missing some joints
Really the boneset of that rat model has something wrong, seems like its missing some joints
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Dunno how well it imported - wish to hell I could import the anims...
Original: (Sadly no wire frame preview avail)
MS3D:
Looks like all the bones are there, but it maybe this model format provides some extra bone data - they seem to project somehow (maybe NIF equivalent of attachments). Likely possible just with proper bone vertex assignment, but difficult.
Original: (Sadly no wire frame preview avail)
MS3D:
Looks like all the bones are there, but it maybe this model format provides some extra bone data - they seem to project somehow (maybe NIF equivalent of attachments). Likely possible just with proper bone vertex assignment, but difficult.
..yeah the model got all its bones, I didnt notice that the user who gave it new animations rigged it to the old rat model.
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Apparently, animation is hard.
There's *probably* a better NIF importer out there for 3dxmax or something, that might get the animations, then could subsequently export it to something MS3D can read, but jeeze, that level of model conversion tends to take days to research.
There's *probably* a better NIF importer out there for 3dxmax or something, that might get the animations, then could subsequently export it to something MS3D can read, but jeeze, that level of model conversion tends to take days to research.
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