Heavy Armoured Martian

[Irritant]

Have I become to Martians what Cheapy is to Gargs? Perhaps...

But this is one of three models I am currently working on, which include this one, a Martian Cyborg, and a heavy armoured Human.

http://www.planetquake.com/cor/models/martian/heavy.jpg

http://www.planetquake.com/cor/models/martian/heavy_skin.jpg

About 10 hours so far. Some parts I had lying around already.

On to the cyborg.

[Vermeulen]

Very nice style to it, it'll fit into your game nicely. Although i think you should make the envmap on the top of him a little more transparent so you can actually see the aliens head clearly.

[Mishra]

I really don't see where all those polygons went, and it seems very top-heavy, like it would fall over easily. It's good, but it could be better.

[JDinges]

Got to agree with Mishra, where'd all those tris go to? from what i can see of the wire frame it doesn't look like it should be nearly that high

we need a better wire pic /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Irritant]

Sorry for the tiny wire pic -

Alot of polys are in the head, which will be getting alot of facial animation. I initially made a low poly version of it, but decided to keep the more detailed version when the model overall wound up with less polys than I anticipated.

http://www.planetquake.com/cor/models/martian/head.jpg

Low poly head

http://www.planetquake.com/cor/models/martian/head2.jpg

[Irritant]

And the rest of the mesh. Pay no attention to the misaligned pieces at the waist(split there for torso/hip rotation ability, and potential Q3A exporting if I feel ambitious). Those will be lined up better when I rig him.

http://www.planetquake.com/cor/models/martian/heavy_mesh.jpg

[Irritant]

Teamskins. Got him in game now, all animations, v_weps complete. This is md2, and I was shocked that the vertex deformation was very minor converting to that format.

http://www.planetquake.com/cor/models/martian/enforcer.jpg

PS - I am now just noticing the twisting of the left ankle, god damn it.

[Irritant]

And now for the Martian Cyborg. My scanner is broken, so I cannot upload the concept I sketched out. There will be a goofy eyeball inside of the round portion of the head. One arm is to be a green alien graft, the other mechanical pincers.

2424 tris, about 5 hours, including unwrapping.

http://www.planetquake.com/cor/models/cyborg/cyborg1.jpg

[Irritant]

Texture started - I'm branching out...really /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

http://www.planetquake.com/cor/models/cyborg/cyborg2.jpg

[Irritant]

Default skin - finished /images/graemlins/smile.gif

http://www.planetquake.com/cor/models/cyborg/cyborg_skin.jpg

[Sectaurs]

heh. cool. i like the cyborg the best so far.

his feet look a little bizarre, though. looks like they're not actually attached to his leg-bone.

[CheapAlert]

Are you using Quads for strips for roundness? (as seen in figure A)

http://www.planetgargoyle.com/strips.jpg

See if B could solve some dense polycount problems. Hope this helps /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Irritant]

Thanks all for comments and crits /images/graemlins/smile.gif

CA, on figure B, how would I be able to bend that strip with smooth deformation? Seems it would be zig-zaggy?