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Looked great up until the face change :\. Obviously the clothes needed to be a bit more up to par, and I THINK you did that. Although Mara Jade is sexy. The old face you had left on there be4 u slapped on that ugly one was best .

 

" Looks like she's on crack " - I agree :o

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I agree that the whole face should be changed utterly, or reverted back to what it was originally. I agree that you may have just recolored padme, although the current padme skin is somewhat....strange. You see its a great skin and model, but the problem was in the face. It really was strange to see padme smiling at me whilst I sabered her. I really liked some of your changes regarding her face.

 

Maybe its just me, but I really think you did a great job re-doing that padme model except for the recent face change. You see the eyes are a bit small...and she looks somewhat like an old woman. That or perhaps my aunt :amidala:

 

I understood that you chose the Mara from the official guide you characters, which really protrays how I think she looks. You got the clothes up to par...but I really think that the mara from the official guide to characters looks perfectly and brilliantly young and beautiful, while your face really doesnt portray that look. Such as the clothes do.

 

Aside from the face, I saw that the darker clothed Mara looked somewhat nice also aside from the face. Although did it have that Dooku type cape? I was thinking if there was an update to the file...you could use the second padme type model, in which includes her cape. In which you could recolor the hair and face, and then change the clothes black, and color the cape purple as seen in this pic.

 

http://www.aravenwood.free-online.co.uk/Nov99/downloads/the_goodies/Your_art/Elektro-Mara%20Jade.jpg

 

 

Anyway , I hope some of the criticism helped somewhat. We really dont come here to nag, but just to do what we can to help you out. *bows* Obi-Wan

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thank you so much obi-wan for actually giving me your thoughts, i will take what you said into serious consideration for an update. i was thinking about the whole cape thing but never got around to it.

 

the face just took me so long to do, but i'll reskin it and make her look younger and um...not on crack.

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ok, well the face is still ****ed up. i guess ill try to describe what i think is wrong:

 

the eyes are too beady and set back, and maybe a bit too high; the nose and brow ridges are way too defined

 

also, the skin tone on the arms etc needs to be worked on; and the pant/shirt/boots/belts need more texture to them

 

its an ok skin, but it still looks like a newbie skin; ive noticed a lot of skins you post, dont really look complete too me, you should work on making more texture on the surfaces (artistically speaking)

 

basically, you got the skills and the determination to skin well, you just need to stick with them, and work on the points you lack

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your definitely getting better at skin tones, that last face does look good

 

basically, the hair needs some texture now, itd probably be hard though with the seams

 

and maybe, try to take out the smirk a little bit; try a tad less shading on the cheek insides, or maybe change the lip shape some

 

once you hone your talent, are you going to go back and improve the calamari skin you were making? i liked that alot, something different

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thanks for all the help, idontlikegeorge, i fixed the hair a bit (that screenie doesn't do justice, but I'll continue to work on that). The smirk I'm still trying to remove, but she just keeps on smiling!!! :D

 

Also, could someone think of and/or contact me with a good taunt or two for her or if there's a girl out there who'd like to make a few taunts then that'd be cool too, I have no idea what to do about that.

 

About my Ibtisam skin, I've been thinking about reskinning that and I've tried a couple times but it's just downright scary. But if I can get it right, I'll be sure to update my progress on that...I don't know when the model maker is planning on releasing it, so I may not have much time...anyway, thanks for the help.....

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k, guys, i've been touching up on everything for quite a while and i think the result will be what i was shooting for originally - a good mara skin minus the new model.

 

HOWEVER I have one more major thing I'd like to add before release:

 

Can anyone give me some instructions on how to make a shader? for my leather mara, I want to make a leathery effect to her outfit, how would i do that? i've read various tutorials but haven't really caught on. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks. i'll post some screenies before submitting.

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About the skins...

 

Are you including eyes in the head texture? The eyes are supposed to be separate objects, and get their own textures, unless the model just has a head and the modeler didn't bother to make eyeballs. All the skins I've opened up and peeked at have left the eyes out of the head texture, just had the neutral bg color there instead.

 

 

Shaders...

 

I believe there's a shader creation tool included with Raven's jk2dk. Just create a basic texture, a sort of black semi-leathery looking thing, then use the shader creator, set the base texture as the diffuse map, select the right options (which ones, I'm not totally sure) to give the right reflectiveness and so forth, then save that as <leg texture name>.shader, .shader being the default format for the editor. Include both the shader and the base texture in the pk3, and I think JK2 should load it properly. I've only read tut's on how to do this so this is my interpretation of how it works, but I dunno 100%.

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