ReIIiK Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 That might be so, but adjusting it would be tricky, alot of times when modelers have gone back and 'tweeked' something like that the model ends up looking very skiny necked and then a odd head, the general shape gets funky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
<JOTD>Jedi Hunter Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 If you look back a few pages I believe he mentioned that he hasn't done much to the neck yet. But that is a good pont. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deetox187 Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 Originally posted by -Tercero- Okies - I retouched taunt2 - got most of the static out and managed to cut the volume on the instrumentals in the background by a hair as well... wound up with a pretty clean sound... Awesome, thats one of the better taunts. The head and neck are a tad thick but i wouldn't screw with it too much, like ReIIiK said it might make him look odd if hes too skinny, but i'm sure Tercero wouldn't let that happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulic Quel Droma Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 i was just looking at anakins avatar and it looks as if anakins ear is to far down on his face? might be fixed havnt looked ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12thMonkey Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 Thanks to JEDI_Anakin_S avatar i can clearly see how accurate the model is to tne actor. However the neck is too fat and the ears need lifting up a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eets Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 Originally posted by Grafox Some little crits: -The head is to fat -The neck is to fat, make it slimmer. Agreed. He's starting to look less like Anakin now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphius_doh Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 You might also want to consider this option: The actual pic of Anakin and the model in the avatar may not be in the "exact" positions and that will make a difference as to how one is compaired to the other. I just thought I'd throw this possibility out for you all to consider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Snape Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 Originally posted by Eets Agreed. He's starting to look less like Anakin now WTF U TALKING BOUT. He looks perfectly like anakin. There will be no way that he will never not look like anakin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonces Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 That head is perfect, perhaps the width of the neck could be narrowed a little but as far as low poly modeling/skining goes that's a dead on reselblence. If I can get my Samuel L. head to look half as good as that I'm gonna throw a party I'm in awe Terc Toonces http://www.drivingcatstudios.com Powered by Sith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Snape Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 hey toonces. is there ne new news for your site. Cuz it still is from aug 26th and i was wondering if there was ne new news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradFu Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 Back to the question of TGA or JPG, I seriously think you should go with JPG for anything that doesn't need transparencies. If you don't compress too much, you won't loose any of the quality, and you'll save immense amounts of space. With TGA, you might have a pk3 file of 4+mb, where you can get it down to 1mb or less with JPG. For some people, that still makes a difference when they go to download skins/models. Since you're planning on doing multiple alternate skins for this model, you should definitely go with JPG so you don't end up with a 10+mb download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keo718 Posted September 8, 2002 Share Posted September 8, 2002 If I can get my Samuel L. head to look half as good as that I'm gonna throw a party ???? Are you working on Windu? If so I'd be willing to give as much feedback as you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atsuri Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 I disagree with Brad. I would never risk size over quality. I think you should release it as a tga but if there are people who really want it as a jpg then you can send a file that is jpg to them personaly. If there are too many people asking for it then you could always submit a version that is jpg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradFu Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 No no, Don't misunderstand, I definitely think quality goes before file size. But the fact is, with the right JPG compression, there will be absolutely zero visible quality loss. My preferred compression is Level 6 in Photoshop, I've done a number of skins with that compression level, and looked very closely at the skin as I compress it for any loss of quality, and I've never seen any. Keeping images as TGAs for game skins if you don't need any transparent bits is just excessive. Tercero, if you have any doubts about it, that's simple enough to solve. When you're finished with the skin, just save them as JPG and try various compression levels, I am willing to bet you will find the results more than satisfactory. You MIGHT see a difference if you were to look at the skinned model really really close (ie, closer than is really possible with a game model), but at normal and even fairly close levels, you're not going to see any difference if you don't go too far with the compression. The difference in filesize is immense, which makes it very much worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xyphox Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 Hey guys, Brad is right. The file size isn't that much of a big deal to me, but he is right. I have Photoshop 7 and there is no difference between tga and compression 6 jpeg. If for some reason you think 6 still isn't high enough quality you can go to 7 or 8. So, there is no exchanging quality for file size. It just exchanges large file size for small file size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
<JOTD>Jedi Hunter Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 Well it's good to see great input. Thanks fellas. Of course you're all asleep right now. You know what's really scary? The modelling forums are completely empty. **shivers** lol model looks great terc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Tercero- Posted September 9, 2002 Author Share Posted September 9, 2002 Here's an update - I went back to work on his face - tell me how I'm doing! Here's a screenie! http://www.geocities.com/tercero_bootleg/Anakin-R2_1.txt or, if that link's down: http://www.geocities.com/anakin_tercero/Anakin-R2_1.txt I'm going to push the release date back a bit to redo some parts of his body - I want to get it looking spectacular, especially considering that practically all the other Jedi I make will be wearing his clothes... I don't have an exact estimate for release yet, but it shouldn't push things back too much more. Like I've said before, I don't want to sacrifice quality for speed, and with an extra week or two to work on his clothes, I think that I can both drop the polycount and get them looking better. Oh, on the .jpg or .tga thing, I agree with BradFu - If I can compress them with a negligible loss of quality I will - the smaller filesizes will make a difference - even in game. I want people with limited video ram to be able to play it too... Tell me what you think of the changes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keo718 Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 The face and the neck particularly are still too wide. Besides that you have a good resemblance. I would suggest that you keep the face alterations to a minimum at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Snape Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 darn a week or two . well if u gotta do that, i guess i should understand cuz u making it better. good job ter. keep up the good work by keeping me hoping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t3rr0r Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 Originally posted by keo718 The face and the neck particularly are still too wide. yeah, if you tweak the kneck some more, it should be perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth2Tyranus Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 looking good tercero to bad u have to put it back another 2 weeks keep it up!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fat_101 Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 looking very good, i also prefer u to take ur time make this the best model of all models (except ur future realeases) . On average how long did it take u to make the head only, fully skinned? FATTEH P.S was thinkin mace will be easy, no hair to worry about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atsuri Posted September 9, 2002 Share Posted September 9, 2002 mmmm mmmmm MMMMMM! Damn that looks good. Besides the neck width that is looking godly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
<JOTD>Jedi Hunter Posted September 10, 2002 Share Posted September 10, 2002 I'm sure we can all wait. Tercero, I hope you considor doing obiwan ep 1 next... or bespin leia.PS. Leias lightsaber is green(eu info). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uber Sith Posted September 10, 2002 Share Posted September 10, 2002 Wow oh Wow... he looks even more realistic.. nice one teraco good job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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