Evan Nash Posted April 8, 2002 Share Posted April 8, 2002 Holy.... That vadermaker site is PERFECT Has blueprints and everything!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skellington Posted April 8, 2002 Share Posted April 8, 2002 For the armor, yes, but not the helmet, sadly. There's a plan for placing the paints on the helmet, bu it's not a great picture for the actual structure of the thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Binklestein Posted April 8, 2002 Share Posted April 8, 2002 That helmet would look so much better if everything weren't the same smoothing group.. that's really just washing all the detail right off of him. Makes it look like vader after luke burned his corpse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evan Nash Posted April 8, 2002 Share Posted April 8, 2002 Once the right tools come out, I wonder if it's possible to make a Yoda model... Since you can have an R2-D2 height model, perhaps you can make one for Yoda...or even a Jawa... Hmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luuke Posted April 8, 2002 Share Posted April 8, 2002 wow, this vader model is really looking great!!!! will you do the lightsaber as well? i hope that raven will release the SDK soon, can't wait to see this and more such good new models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sithlord-II Posted April 8, 2002 Author Share Posted April 8, 2002 i've played around a bit with the smoothing groups now, the face does look a bit more angular in parts, and the helmet has that same sort of divide between the flange and the headpiece, instead of looking really smooth between - and i would definitely want to make the sabre for vader once it is possible thank you skellington, hope to see those items, and i did check out a few different cosuming sites yesterday when i was searching for some sources, that vadermaker was one of them - i also found a different vadermaker site, without that domain name but alot larger images, i was at work when i found it though... edit: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~dewar_s/Vader/Helmet.htm found the alternate vadermaker site as well, it has a little bit extra info i believe and some good images Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skellington Posted April 9, 2002 Share Posted April 9, 2002 DON'T USE THE ONE WITH THE POINTY BIT BETWEEN THE EYES!!! AHHHH!!!! That's the old, deformed Don Post standard mask...NOT a good reference at all. The Classic Action is much better (hee....have one sitting on my computer here ), and is apparently made from a mold of one of the original Empire helmets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sithlord-II Posted April 9, 2002 Author Share Posted April 9, 2002 dont worry, wont be using that for a reference and as a sidenote heres a little low poly item i did up earlier, its exactly 500 polys, untextured, vader's saber from ANH (was bored at work and didn't have 3DS, so Gmax would have to do) http://www.geocities.com/sithlordiii2000/vadersaber.txt i've gotten some better images of the vader mask and have made quite a few improvements, next step is cutting down alot of unnecessary polys on the model itself, and then texturing the whole thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Sane Posted April 9, 2002 Share Posted April 9, 2002 I just looked at that model (first post) looks good cept for one thing - the helm should meet with the eye line - creating a brow line. meaning it should make those spheres of eyes look like evil slanted eyes. PS: I would LOVE for someone to make some skins based on the Star Wars Manga - that was amazing work there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luuke Posted April 9, 2002 Share Posted April 9, 2002 can you post some more (newer) screenshots, please? since we are still waiting for the SDK to come that would be sweet, because this will make the waiting more comfortable. actually your vader model and the hope to get a darth maul model is the only thing that makes me wait for the sdk... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sithlord-II Posted April 9, 2002 Author Share Posted April 9, 2002 and this image is a bit larger than the others, so i'll link to it... http://www.geocities.com/sithlordiii2000/vader_wire2.txt and yes, i am aware of the gaps in the ankles, hips, etc, and that the legs are a little bit long heheh the grey bit beside his face is because the helmet has not been attached to the head yet, that is the double-sided texture on it for the time being. and his inner cloak is in there... poly count right now is about 2200, it will need some refining and optimizing once the SDK/GDK are out, once i see how it looks in-engine.. and i think i need to bulk it up a bit, in the arms and the legs so he looks a bit bigger, more powerful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evan Nash Posted April 9, 2002 Share Posted April 9, 2002 Check out those gams!!! LOL. jk. Reminds me of that song "Legs", by ZZ-TOP. Good work tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luuke Posted April 9, 2002 Share Posted April 9, 2002 well, this looks good!!! the helmet is perfect now to me, as you said the body needs some work, but i believe you will do a great job!! may the force be with you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabowan Posted April 9, 2002 Share Posted April 9, 2002 Bravo! The helmet is looking downright fabulous now! I think you've already pointed out all the major flaws in the model, so obviously you're good at judging your own work. Excellent job, though! Keep up the good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechTech Posted April 9, 2002 Share Posted April 9, 2002 Very nice, looks like it is comming along great! Nice to see your going for authinticity not not just a fast ugly vader. Great job, can wait to see it in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkErik Posted April 9, 2002 Share Posted April 9, 2002 Verrrry Niice! It's very clear to see your improvement between the first shots and the latest! The Front-Pic is great work, man! Looks very accurate and true. I have little problems with the lower view, but that could be just me... I searched for some Pics from that angle and found some on http://www.theforce.net. Sadly I have no idea how to post them, so I just post the links: Vader ESB 1 Vader ESB 2 (just 'cause that's THE Vader photo... <g>) Vader ESB 3 It looks like the helmet is still a bit too "high". Hope you got my point... Well, just wanna give a helping hand... The work so far is great and you rule... so far ( ) Keep it up!! DarkErik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sithlord-II Posted April 9, 2002 Author Share Posted April 9, 2002 thank you guys for the comments, i do know what you mean, and i think i see one other area for improvement on the helmet (mask) - below the chin grating, it cuts in too far, it needs to jut out more to expand the neck, and the neck and grating do down quite a bit further i believe i'll bring the helmet in closer to the head, i did bring it down a bit but i had left it up for the time being so i could see the facemask a bit more clearly for the smoothing groups those images will definitely help, darkErik i don't want to just rush this model out, i'd sooner make sure it looks good and will deform well ingame, as well as be as authentic as possible (to my ability anyways...) i'm sure there will be a swarm of vader models coming out once we all get our hands on the importing tools, hopefully mine will be one people use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkErik Posted April 10, 2002 Share Posted April 10, 2002 Happy that I was able to help BTW, go through some other pics on TheForce.net... I think I saw some blueprints for the belt... but nothig for the suit, but I think you've already found some... And by enough pushing by the community here, your models would work out great and will be used by all... hopefully to give enough credit for your work 'till release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Naga Sadow Posted April 10, 2002 Share Posted April 10, 2002 MAN U R GOOD AND I HAVE BEEN WAITING TO BE DARTH VADER FOR SOOOO LONG IN GAMES!!! THX SITHLORD!!!!!!!!!!!! kiss* (p.s. the darth vader models in JK1 is horrible... and urs is FANTASTIC BABY) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evan Nash Posted April 10, 2002 Share Posted April 10, 2002 Easy killer. Calm down the caps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painreliever Posted April 11, 2002 Share Posted April 11, 2002 Not to change the subject but if you watch Empire, in the scene where vader is reaching out his hand like what is shown in picture two of DarkErik's post. You can see his helmet wobbling around on his head from the wind machine. Seems they didn't have it attached very firmly during filming of that scene...You might want to incorporate that feature into your model! JK It's looking good, can't wait! Painreliever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BooJediHamster Posted April 11, 2002 Share Posted April 11, 2002 Looking good, but I think the shoulders are a little too wide. That aside looking good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sithlord-II Posted April 11, 2002 Author Share Posted April 11, 2002 hehehehehe i'll see about the 'helmet wobbling' feature, somehow i don't think it was something they intended Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prox Kolari Posted April 12, 2002 Share Posted April 12, 2002 No wobbling, that guy was kidding. Helmet falling off, now that's a good idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sithlord-II Posted April 12, 2002 Author Share Posted April 12, 2002 i know he was kidding the falling off idea isn't too bad though, don't know how that would be done perhaps set it up to act as the head for decapitation? but then he wouldn't be properly decapped in a match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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