Squawks

[New Horizon]

Sweet. The whore was one of my favorite concept pieces. She's so down to business. lol

[squawks]

quick question. upperclass whore or gutter whore? (ie she could possibly work in a brothel but also streetwork) Or gutter whore? If she was upperclass whore she would have more access to diff types of makeup/clothing etc.

[sparhawk]

You can do both.

[Domarius]

But if we don't need 2 right away, I vote for the upperclass one first.

 

@Spring - yep I'll pass them to her at work.

[Springheel]

quick question. upperclass whore or gutter whore

 

Ideally one model could work for both. We're trying to make our AI models as versatile as possible, so that mappers can use them in a variety of situtations.

 

Keep in mind that we're using head-swapping (the head and body are separate models), so you could make multiple heads for your model if you like, one upperclass and one lower. Also, we can have multiple textures for the same model, so clothing could be very rich material in one texture but dirty, plain and tattered in the next.

 

We have a system that allows us to easily attach models to AI, so accessories like bracelets, pouches, etc, should be made as separate models rather than part of the AI mesh.

 

In terms of size, the characters should be the same size as the D3 characters...I think there is a female model called Poppy, but I've never looked at her. The hazmat guy should be about the right size though, if you want something to compare to.

[sparhawk]

Do you also rig the model for animation? If yes, then Dom can probably brief you heow they need to be setup with the bones, so they can use our animations and attach items to them.

 

Looking forward to your models.

[Domarius]

Yeah I've got her set up with making things in proportion with the rest of our characters, after talking with oDDity on MSN about the best way to go about doing that.

 

And I'll get her the specifications for rigging when she start rigging.

[sparhawk]

What about the feet? Do you all truly think that Oddity's idea to making the feet bigger for proportional compensation is reall good? evertime I look at our models I have the feeling that the feets look extremly big, and I never noticed that claimed effect of them looking better ingame.

[Domarius]

To be honest, I never agreed with the "compensation" reason, but I actually didn't mind the way they looked.

 

But if everyone has a vote on it, we can change that.

[sparhawk]

I think we don't need to change the current models. But we could make with a new model and see how it looks. I mean, enlargin the feet if it really prooves better, should not be SO big a task. So if Squawks creates a new model from scratch it would be a good way to check it.

[Domarius]

The pagan female has more or less "in proportion" feet. Don't know if this was because it was made after everyone else protested against the large feet, or because females shouldn't have big feet But I personally wouldn't mind if future models had proportions like that.

 

We can just say the guards have big boots.

[sparhawk]

We should first look if this effect is rella there when the model is in-game or not. Somehow I don't really believe it, but it might be true. In that case the bigger feet make sense.

[Springheel]

Odd shrank the bigger feet after that discussion. There IS some perspective distortion in the game, and it does have an effect on the feet. Any new models will be judged on a case-by-case basis (besides, the whores wear dresses so you won't see their feet standing up anyway).

[sparhawk]

(besides, the whores wear dresses so you won't see their feet standing up anyway).

 

Maybe not their feet. But what about other stuff from the male AI passing by?