The "Model/Skin" Pimpage/WIP Thread

TheNewCity wrote:

doomlord1992 wrote:

TheNewCity wrote:

Concepts: Me & Kapt'n

Mapping: Jenkins

Sound design & Coding: Jenkins & Kave

Modeling: SGG

Texturing: Doom

tbh

you can add mapping as soon as all this school shit calms down.

Point taken, especially if Jenkins doesn't come back.

i didnt knew im doing concepts for caste but yeah, awesome!

No, I mean the goddamn sub-forum moderators.

If I was doing concepts, then that would be a goddamn miracle.

Though this is a bit of a staff manifest.

The Dude wrote:

Nice model, but I'd leave that concept for the books. He looks too much like a Starship Trooper or a Hogan's Heroes character.

The helmet is a bodygroup, but I see what you mean. It might look better after the model is updated.
I need to redo the entire model because most of it is badly done, especially on parts with texture stretching.

Sergeant Stacker wrote:

It would be pretty cool if the conscript got headhacked

All 9 male citizen models will be made with Conscript bodies.

The headhack and conscript re-do sounds good, but even then I don't think the helmet will look too good on the model. It just seems so out of place, even for HL2 Beta's multitude of concepts. Maybe you could do a ski mask or a green beret, or even these kinds of gas masks:



I'm talking about the bottom 4 characters, by the way.

helmet looks PERFECT

The Dude wrote:

...or a green beret...

Only Captain Vance deserves a beret.

Shotgunguy49 wrote:

The Dude wrote:

...or a green beret...

Only Captain Vance deserves a beret.

THIS THAT AND THE OTHER THINGS

katatonic717 wrote:

helmet looks PERFECT

I never said it wasn't. L2read

Shotgunguy49 wrote:

The Dude wrote:

...or a green beret...

Only Captain Vance deserves a beret.

Fair enough; that makes sense. It's just that it breaks the flow of the game. Think about it; what other characters had army helmets like those in HL2 Beta? It would make more sense to just give them gas masks like everyone else already has.

The Dude wrote:

Shotgunguy49 wrote:

The Dude wrote:

...or a green beret...

Only Captain Vance deserves a beret.

Fair enough; that makes sense. It's just that it breaks the flow of the game. Think about it; what other characters had army helmets like those in HL2 Beta? It would make more sense to just give them gas masks like everyone else already has.

I was just going off the texture sheet that wasn't used.
There's a couple other unused textures too, a bayonet and a canteen I think.

True but it was never really solidified. Even in the concept art the helmets look more like something from Doctor Who, so it'd be hard to fit in the concept seamlessly.

A knife, on the other hand, would actually make more sense. HL2 Beta already had kind of a cyberpunk/steampunk blend going on, so it'd make sense to have it on certain weapons. The fact that not a lot of military branches use them anymore for combat only help that element.

Canteens could also make sense and probably serve for some symbolism, since the Combine's draining the oceans and all.

The Dude wrote:

A knife, on the other hand, would actually make more sense. HL2 Beta already had kind of a cyberpunk/steampunk blend going on, so it'd make sense to have it on certain weapons. The fact that not a lot of military branches use them anymore for combat only help that element.

The bayonet would bee really easy to remake, but the problem of anims is going to make it unusable.
There aren't any animations for weapon holdtypes with a stabbing gesture.

I could make an animation for it, but I don't know how it will turn out.
I'm not that good of an animator.

I'd be willing to learn but I already have enough on my plate to worry about.

I like the idea of a Male_07 Conscript, But make sure the Vance and Animal conscripts are in there too.

Maybe even port the wounded Conscript model with an empty canteen next to him to stir up some drama.

The Dude wrote:

Maybe even port the wounded Conscript model with an empty canteen next to him to stir up some drama.

But it's the same model...

Shotgunguy49 wrote:

The Dude wrote:

Maybe even port the wounded Conscript model with an empty canteen next to him to stir up some drama.

But it's the same model...

But it already has anims so no one has to create any new animations.

Valve probably made separate models because they had a hard time coding. That's my guess, I'm just throwing ideas around.

The Dude wrote:

Valve probably made separate models because they had a hard time coding. That's my guess, I'm just throwing ideas around.

Sounds like something Gearbox would do...
Anyone remember when there was a bunch of different Barney models with different anims on Blue Shift, even though they really only needed ONE with all the anims packed inside.

Either the .mdls couldn't handle all of those SMDs or Valve's modelers have OCD and/or short-term memory loss because they only have a few anims and want it that way. If Episode 3 comes out and there are no new weapons, I'm going to kill someone.

The Dude wrote:

If Episode 3 comes out

It isn't gonna happen for at least another 3 years

I can wait

The Dude wrote:

I can wait

Fry's singing dog FTW

Oh, and Shotgunguy, for the stabbing gesture you can just use MeleeAttack01; that animation already looks like a rifle-stabbing gesture.

Shotgunguy49 wrote:

Kave told me he needed a new Immolator model based of of his friends concept art.



So I started working on it, and it looks pretty decent so far.


Obviously, the model isn't finished, I'm just working on the basic shape right now.
The model will be re-UV mapped and I'll add more details later.

WAIT! OH SHI~!!1