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You've got an insanely long amount of time to make something (over a month) and I don't know about the rest of these guys, but I'm more than happy to give tips and other assistance. I'm sure they'd all be happy to help too. :D

I've improved my definitely-not-perfect texturing techniques considerably by listening to the advice and techniques of others.

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Gah this only base model rule is killing i want my super hero to have a cape :(
ill have pis once hes in game and stuff

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Haven't you ever seen the Incredibles? Capes are bad news.

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but i want one and yes i have seen the Incredible's

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I wish I could photosource, and there's no way anyone could beat Inyri's.

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The problem about capes that arose in the Incredibles would have no effect in JK3. Why? because the cape would have to be static. Thus, it would not catch in anything.

*grumble* Stupid Q3 engine *grumble*

A WIP stands for Work In Progress. It is the skinning that you probably do not know how to do. It really isnt that hard though. If you take the time to learn and to read tutorials, I am sure you yourself could come up with an excellent skin.

"Now go do it! STAT!"
"What does STAT even mean?"
"I dont know. I just like speaking in anagrams."
"You mean SIA."
"What?"
"Speaking In Anagrams. SIA."
"Now you are just being stupid."

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Has anyone told you you're no fun? :p

:rofl: I have not photosourced since 2005.

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*aHEM* Well, that's what we are here to find out now isn't it? :p

Noooooooooo! Teh precious secretses! We won't lets them take teh precious secretses! :evilgrin:

Nah, I'd be happy to help if they have photoshop. If not... well there is only so much I can do at that point.

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Well you see, the fun loophole here is that you can photosource, if you take the photos yourself of course. I happen to be a small time photographer, so I can take pictures of my shirts vests and pants to photosource then work on. MRUAHAHA, the cheepness runs wild. I will have it known though, I'm not entering to win, only to enter and learn a few things.

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A hero/villain wearing ordinary jeans and t-shirts? That ought to be interesting. :p

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Oh trust me, my clothes are *far* from ordanary.

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Sometimes everyday people can be heroes.

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1Shot is right. As was suggested before, Heroes or Villians do not necessarily mean fancy getups complete with tights. The only thing that is consistant is that it has to be original.

I personally have a Superhero who has been shunned from his work and is disguised as a bum so that he can continue fighting evil without anybody bothering him. He no longer wears a fancy get up. But that is part of who he is, which in turn makes for a really interesting character.

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So if you're going with the classic bum look, I have a great technique for facial hair/stubbles. Create a new raster layer over your face, airbrush your hair color(set it up to be like the spray can in paint) and when you're done, apply a gaussian blur set to the magnitude of 1. Works for me anyway.

I worked off the tip for facial hair that you gave me some time ago and combined it with the process of making a saber blade in pictures.

Im finally learning to use Corel Paint Shop Pro X. Best investment in a computer program I've ever made.

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Lord no... you didn't just say to blur a solid color... >.<

:p

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Well. After about 2 hours I have a general idea for what Im going to do.




I know his eyes need to be darkened and his shinguard things are too bright as well. I have a couple of ideas for him but I'll get to that tomorrow. Also, if anyone knows a good way to completely redo a face, please let me know. I have the day off tomorrow so I might just read some tutorials and completely resart.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

The screenshots dont do the beard justice. It doesnt look nearly that bad in-game.

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It's cheech isn't it!? I knew it. it's cheech! Where's chong? Maybe I should make chong! You can't have cheech without chong! (If anyone misses this reference, I'm far too old)

Also: That picture I posted earlier will most likely NOT be my contest entry anymore, I had a great idea over night.

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I was thinking it looks more like Triple H. Yes, I was a wrestling fan, back before it became a soap opera.

Anyway. Dynamic glow on the outside edges of the shoulder pads and the line on the pants turned out ugly, so Im out of ideas.

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Random poll for people's ideas:

I'm going to give him a vest. Should it be a black pinstripe vest (with skull and crossbone buttons), or a plain black double breasted vest with a zipper?

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I take it all back~ that was a horrible idea! I'll stick with my racto model. =(

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nice to see more ppls work :P just so u know my guy is a hero, im leaning towards a gritty time traveling cop (more comical fat guy) :P or a security guard who thinks hes more uber then he is :P

Heres a update on the main skin, ive added a shader now thou so the armor shines :)

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y111/dravaik/final.jpg

And btw, what do ppl think of the face? i tried to make him look quite old, and suggestions would be appritated :P

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I like it.

To make the face look old, try lightening the color of his beard/hair or add in some whiteish patches.

Also, from what I can see, his face skin doesnt match his neck skin. And his hands are too young looking for his face. Other than that I think you've got a great skin there.

I love the time traveling cop idea btw.

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His beard seems to stretch too far down his neck, like you took the photoshop smudge tool and dragged it a bit too much downward. If you are using photoshop, try using the smudge tool that is part of the liquefy tool set instead... if that made sense lol. I'm at school right now so I can't tell you exactly where it is.

Other than that though the skin is pretty cool. Just need a funny sound set to go with it.

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His face doesnt look old, it looks decaying. Most older people do not have that many wrinkles on them. Sure some wrinkles are more prominint than others, but yours looks like... well like I said above. Like its decaying off of his face. I would suggest less lines. You only need the prominint ones in certain areas. There are a couple of *old* skins out there that you can look at to see how the face wrinkles. Like Old Ben or even Luke.

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Im not sure what ur looking at, there arnt that many wrinkles on him, well in the actual flat texture there isnt, i think ur looking at parts that arnt wrinkles, thats just coz im not good at the basic skin texture :P
But if u need a reason, heres one, Hes alergic to time travel :P

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Technically aging is decaying. :P

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I want some technical clarification on the rules, is it allowed to leave parts of the original texture in place with some modifications, or do all textures need to be completely colored over?

Also, WIP shot:



(The main part I want to leave is the face, because it's looking pretty brilliant at this point)

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I never said you couldn't use parts of original textures. I just said you couldn't used other custom content.

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Right! Then Things are going really really well!

I just really wanted to be sure I was following all the rules, and since everyone seemed to be making all original faces of some sort I thought I might have been missing something.

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Hehehe, I'm working on the sound set for my skin right now. I'm making him sound menacing, but with a sarcastic comic-book style overtone. :p

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Just a quick update from me.

Side:


Front


Back


Im hoping to do more to him but I really dont know what else to do. I have to do sounds and team colors still, and come up with a name a background.

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Hmm that reminded me to add some sounds, ive got em recorded, but obviously things aint as easy as that :P So whats the best way to make them/program?

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He's kinda cool, but you didn't really do much with the skin. It looks like the majority of the original skin is still intact. See if you can think of something else to add to it.

Also, is he a hero or a villain?

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(Sry for double post, he asked while I was posting.)

I recommend Audacity. It's free, it can record from multiple sources (microphone, applications running on your computer, etc), and it can add cool effect to the sounds you record. In order to save anything in .mp3 format though, you need to download an install the LAME MP3 Encoder (LAME is the name, not a description ;)), but afterwards you are set to use it.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

If you have any questions about it that the site's FAQ doesn't answer, ask me. :cool:

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Yeah, actually pretty much all of it is intact. This is my first skin and Im slowly figuring things out. Im not so great when it comes to skinning. I'll probably end up starting over atleast one more time. For now its just kind of a recolor. I might even just forget the contest and work on it untill its changed enough so that it doesnt resemble the original skin.

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Yea i checked the forum before posting, so i dloaded Audacity and the encoder already, and tried to record, using mono 44100Hz and in 16 bits, but it isnt workin so i still get default kyle taunts. Any one know wat im not doing? or if u could list some steps that would be great to. :)

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Open the console and see what errors it gives you. This will usually tell you exactly what's wrong with your audio so that you can fix it.

Taunts and music are the ones things where the engine will give you real and useful information on what's wrong. Wish the rest of the game was that way... -_-

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Nah i would of noticed a error, it doesnt do anything, at all lol. and i have put stuff in the right folders and checked the .cfg

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If there are no errors then it's probably not detecting the files at all. Are they in the misc folder?

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Indeed they are, all the folders are all labeled correctly.

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Rawr, I guess I will try this then, but I have no knowledge of shaders, Q.Q, Inyri your help here would be appreciated :D.
And how do you people get such good textures T.T.

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You'll need to be more specific if you want help.

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GUESS WAT! im submitting my own skin :D maybe if i learn textures and shaders so yea

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inyiri would u be kind to teach me shaders textures and glowy stuff

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Er, I think you should try by self at first. Then you'll get questions. Precise questions. But you just can't say teach me this or teach me that. Totorials are there to teach.

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mhm, you learn it.
http://www.heppler.com/shader/
http://qbranch.cottages.polycount.com/tutorials.shtml

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Oh and btw he looks like someone from Transformers called Red Alert :P
Yeah so Inyri what I meant is there a program that can easily make the shader for you? And how did you get that texture effect on your entry?

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eh i dont care wat rating my skins get i have gotten better yay!!! and i dont care i if i win or lose its just for fun

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So erm.. what's the filesize limitations on this? I've got my skin up to about ten megs now, and that's probably a bit excessive. (But it's stunning ingame.)

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10 Megabytes for a couple of textures and a shader?
You made them targa?