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Torso and arm textures are TGA, the rest is just excessively bloated high quality high resolution JPG files. The TGA is to add light chrome effects to some of the metallic surfaces, tres-natural.

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Yes and no. There is ShaderEd. I've never used it, because in my opinion all it does is keep you from learning how shaders work by doing the work for you. I have the same opinion on any program that makes NPC or bot files.Which one?

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Well, this is as far as I have gotten.

Well, at least design wise. I have already created a wonderful character and past storyline, given him sound bytes and the likes, but as for the actual skinning portion, Nowhere near complete. I believe I am going to be using the Jedi R2 Model though...
I dont know how I am going to finish in time...

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I have two questions:
how many skins have been submit?
are those skins interesting?

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Blonde hair ball man? Just kidding, fire is pretty hard to draw. I like the patterning on the hand, not too sure about the mask though.

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On the first post of this topic/thread, the image you posted, how did you get the textures so good? =_=, And I would if I knew how to do shaders the manual way, but then again how would you be able to preview them without going in game?

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Err, surely you would want to know how a shader interacts in-game...

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Use ShaderEd.

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ShaderEd fails at previewing. It simply can't render all of the elements you'll see in game, so it'll be a relative preview rather than an actual preview.

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I spent hours working on them. And they weren't all that good. :lol:

As for how many skins have been submitted -- few (which is a good thing, because it means people have been taking their time). I have not looked much at them beyond making sure they abide by the contest guidelines, so I couldn't tell you if they were interesting or not.

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Yes, it may be failing, but it's the only way you can preview a shader without viewing it in-game.

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Which takes all of 5 mins... I believe the question is "What's the point of using ShaderED to preview it when it's just as easy to view it in-game, and far more accurate?"

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Actually I believe the question was;
And that is the question I answered, but if you feel the need of arguing any further, then feel free to do so.

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Our point is merely that you should always preview your shaders in game so that you can see how it'll render and what it will look like under different circumstances.

There's nothing wrong with working on theory, but if you work on theory alone then you'll never get the results you want. Practical testing is a must.

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So how do I make those awesome texture effects like in the first image, Inyri posted, and I'm stuck on the clothes right now =_O+.

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On the first image? i would think like most ppl do, u put in a block colour scheme, then when ur happy with the layout, google for the type of texture u want (im guessing a brick wall texture maybe) made a new layer, and overlayed it on top, so it blends togther. Then maybe use the burn/dodge tools to put in shadows and hightlights. Ofc im assuming photoshop was used :P

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:rofl: I'm quite able to make a brick texture without photosourcing it. In any case, I don't plan on doing that. Plus it's not brick, obviously, so using a brick texture would be silly.

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well i was using it more as a example obv, coz i dont know what u did, u dont have to go all ''pro'' on me :P lol, but some textures can be used like brick, and look diffrent on models :P its how u use it i suppose.

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Photosourcing is never a good idea, since you won't be able to get the texture to fit the skinmap without seriously damaging it. The end result is that your skin will look entirely fugly.

question about sounds
 

I used new sounds in the model that I've submited, and I have recorded them in stereo, but the taunts and other sounds can be heard fine in the game ( in the console game there's an error about the stereo sounds but I can use them fine anyway)... it's just my JA that's going crazy or I need to record them in mono?

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Kouen just called my work fugly. I don't know if I'm honored or offended. I'll get back to you on that.

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Before you decide, you might want to take a few classes in English Comprehension...

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Well, I am not very good when it comes to coloring or inking at all. I am a penciller. And in the pencil version, it does look like fire. But that is moot. The whole point is going to be what is on the arm since I cannot create a fireball for this character anyway. I am working on the chest right about now, and his mask is way better than it was the first time I drew it.

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Okay, took a quick class or two at the local university. I'm definitely offended. Not only that but you sir, are a disgusting chunk of petrified wookie hair, not only that but your grandmother is a gruesome barrel of putrid compost. Not to mention that your father is an opinionated clump of stale sweat socks to say the least. (With all due respect.)

where was I going with this again? Oh right, my chrome is broken. How I understand chrome is you make a basic texture, and you add alpha to the areas you want to be chrome (In photoshop just use the handy little eraser on about 40% - 60%) Did that, slapped the shader on, and it just looks white behind it. Any helpful hints?

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Go back to class. Wookiee has 2 E's. :p

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Foiled Again!

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Photosourcing can look good if you do it right. You just have to find a picture with a high enough resolution, and know photoshop like the back of your hand. :cool:

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If you knew photoshop like the back of your hand the photosourcing would be unnecessary. ;)

Hehe, I suppose that is true, but we all know photosourcing can save alot of time.;)

For the lazy. :/

A contest is not the time you should choose to be lazy and cut corners... If you aren't good at making textures and you need to photosource, that's one thing. But to do it just because it saves time? That's cheap.

I was thinking about participating also

Just have to learn basics of skinning and get good Idea of hero/villain I'll make

How can I get jadens skins for exactly one outfit (jaden has many clothes) to modify and put as one new player

Also, I'd like to throw out there that I draw a very clear line between photosourcing and imagesourcing. I photosource. As in I take pictures of things to use for textures thus I can make them EXACTLY what I need. Whereas most of the kiddies around here take some google imagesearch'd picture of an anime character, and glue the face on a reborn model. THAT, is what annoys me.

Lol how to do block colour scheme? Like 1 colour scheme for the part I want to do?

Hey, not everybody has 10 billion hours of free time to work on stuff. Gotta balance work, school, etc., so don't call it cheap.

Then again though, we do have until the end of May.

I think I'm giving you guys more time than I gave the mappers. :p

So mapping was easier? Its good to see the contest somewhat moving along, i want to see the final results tho. hopefully everything is varied and not to much alike so far that won;t be an issue form what i've seen

Oh hell no! A skin is a dozen times easier to make than a map. The end of May is the longest this thing should go on.

A good skin is harder to make than an average map. You can't say one thing is harder than another.

I'm reaaaaaaaaally stuck on the clothes, and I don't just want to recolour the clothes because that would look crap ><. I want to give him new clothes (rodian) as in just new textures.

I don't know. If you are making a massive map it can take many months. I have an unfinished ex-clan map that I worked on for 6 months, and it is only 1/3 done (and that was before my job and 3 months of that was summer). I made my contest entry in about 3 days. :lookaround:




...Unless you don't think my skin qualifies as "good". :(

It is all in the eye of the beholder. My first skin I ever did, Captain America, took me about 6 months. Now people will look at that and go, "Why?" And it was because I was devoted into making it the best it could be (Which still could be better) And that included going back to the starting board 2 or 3 times to get it right. Now, it all depends on the type of person, thus why Inyri said you cant say one is harder than the other.

I suppose that is true. It's just hard for me personally to imagine that comparison after making dozens of custom textures and shaders and carving out thousands upon thousands of brushes for a single map, plus model and entity placement. Editing about 6-7 two-dimensional files just seems like a breeze. :nodding:

I'm almost finished... I have a special version I'm making that will be released after the contest, which I don't have to worry about, and I need to make icons. Team skins, shaders, and the like are all done, other than one small part of the skin I need to fix. All that's left to say is :iron:

damn thats a freaking awsome reskin Inyri

to bad i cant model nor skin

Looks like it's time to post another update. I haven't been around that horribly much since I've been pretty busy with work. But my outlaw is doing quite well. Pictures you say? you scream? you demand? I simply cannot keep my public waiting.

On a more realilistic note, I'll take any advice anyone has, though I may rudely ignore it due to lack of time, or because I think he's pretty damn close to perfect. (or as perfect as a horribly weighted model can get)

Things I can't fix:
The shape of the model!
The deformation of the bullets
The evil clipping of death

http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/9...highreset0.jpg

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/9...uregoneqx8.jpg

many awsome skins to be seen will be hard to pick 1