It's that time again, when I randomly show up and post pics of whatever new thing I'm working on.

Short explanation behind this thing: I finally decided to play with Soft Selection in 3DS Max, and ended up with a weird torso-type-thing. It's still a work in progress; need to create the head, finish the tail/massive arms off the back, and make a real texture. Current colors are just placeholders (Max materials, mostly Marble maps).

Poly count is through the roof because I'm working with a subdivide size of 2-3. It's somewhere around 54k right now. Gonna create a normal map and simplify the model after everything is done.

Anyway, enough talk! On to the pics!

Starting off we have the bit of randomness this thing is evolving from.







Next up, where I am now:













And the whole thing:

wow, you know much about kinematics? if you could animate that it would look unreal.

As soon as I get this thing finished and put a texture on it. Skeleton is next on the list.


Now that I know where I want to go with this thing, I can put it in the list of things going into a project I may have mentioned in one of my previous posts. I want to eventually make an RPG, and this is going to be one of the basic enemies. I have attack animations already planned out in my head, mostly involving those two arms that are coming straight up out of the back.

For anyone who's interested/curious, I'm working on this project by myself, mostly between classes (just started at the Art Institute of Tampa; no, didn't do any of this in/for/having anything to do with class). The engine I'm planning on using is Cipher (already bought a license; they have some awesome documentation to go with it, too).

Hm, speaking of which, I need to double-check if I can use normal maps in that...

Purdy, but theres still some hard edges.

Thanks. As for hard edges, do you mean like that line on the back leg that you can see in the close-up? That's been annoying me for a while now, but I'm probably gonna have to delete that section and re-model it. I'm not sure where the other sections you're talking about are, tho. Feel free to paint over any of the pics to point them out.

tahts insane!

in a good way

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

Is taht JK!1111!11

No?

Ooh. Well it looks sweet anyway!

Panzer Dragoony. =D Me likes.