Pagan Female

[ascottk]

Work has started on the pagan female:

I added some clothing (no underwear so some players may get a surprise after a KO ) & oDD had a skin with tatoos. Her shoulders need to be fixed since they look goofy at the moment & she has no toes or toenails The tricky part will be the weighting on the clothing so her breasts won't clip out of them . . . which may not be a bad thing

[OrbWeaver]

I'm no expert on period clothing, but that bra and skirt looks fairly modern to me. I would expect her to be wearing a corset or long dress or something.

[ascottk]

I'm no expert on period clothing, but that bra and skirt looks more than a bit modern.

That's a temporary texture until I settle on something that fits. I want a ragged looking animal skin thing. & I wanted it to be a little more suggestive

[ascottk]

I image the warrior types to look like this:

oDDity does have a pagan with a long dress. But I don't think she's the warrior type.

 

Or this:

[ascottk]

I just found a great resource to develop our pagans:

http://indian-cultures.com/

 

There's a lot of pictures of different cultures & the different types of things they make:

[Springheel]

oDDity does have a pagan with a long dress. But I don't think she's the warrior type.

 

Odd called it a pagan but it isn't really. That model will just be our default townswoman/maid model--we should probably rename it at some point to avoid confusion.

 

As for this model, the tattoo version (with clothing) should probably be the default skin, though it's handy to have the other available too. Our pagans are supposed to be vaguely inspired by eary celtic tribes, but they range from the savage to the relatively sophisticated, so there's lots of room for variety.

[oDDity]

With the normal map she has fingers and toes.

http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showt...=3533&st=50

Also I made a proper version of the t stance.

http://www.pixelwerks.be/pictures/pagan_nude_female.rar

[ascottk]

With the normal map she has fingers and toes.

http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?showt...=3533&st=50

Also I made a proper version of the t stance.

http://www.pixelwerks.be/pictures/pagan_nude_female.rar

Thanks, oDD! I didn't see it with the normal map yet but the t-pose will help a lot.

[ascottk]

Update:

New dress based on the proguard torso (I have no idea why maya occasionally has these god awful shadows ) The normals have been added to the render. But she needs some ornamentation (jewelery, shells, etc.)

[ascottk]

I forgot we had pagan decals

 

& here's the back:

 

I resolved that stupid shadowing. I exported the dress as an *.obj, deleted the original in maya, then imported the obj back into maya.

[Crispy]

Good progress!

 

It looks like the normals on the dress may have been screwed up... maybe try resetting them if it happens again (with the Modelling menu set, Edit Polygons -> Normals -> Set to face (yes I use Maya a bit )).

[PinkDot]

I like the idea of vine twisting around the cloths . I'd add some shreded edges and maybe some shadowing under the vine (on diffuse map), so it doesn't look like painted on the cloth but has some thickness.

[ascottk]

Good progress!

 

It looks like the normals on the dress may have been screwed up... maybe try resetting them if it happens again (with the Modelling menu set, Edit Polygons -> Normals -> Set to face (yes I use Maya a bit )).

I probably tried something or other with normals but the 'set to face' turned off the smoothing permanently for the mesh for one attempt I made a while back.

 

I like the idea of vine twisting around the cloths . I'd add some shreded edges and maybe some shadowing under the vine (on diffuse map), so it doesn't look like painted on the cloth but has some thickness.

I'll keep that in mind & thanks for the feedback That texture will probably be in progress for a while, but our second female is ingame

 

She's on svn now. There's some rigging issues & the skin applied to the main body doesn't apply to the head:

//++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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//  Pagan Female skins
//++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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skin characters/pagan_female/cloth_natural
{
 model models/md5/chars/pagans/pagan_female/pagan_female_mesh.md5mesh
 model models/md5/chars/pagans/pagan_female/pagan_female_head.md5mesh

 models/md5/chars/pagans/pagan_female/pagan_female models/md5/chars/pagans/pagan_female/pagan_female_bare
}

skin characters/pagan_female/nocloth_natural
{
 model models/md5/chars/pagans/pagan_female/pagan_female_mesh.md5mesh
 model models/md5/chars/pagans/pagan_female/pagan_female_head.md5mesh

 models/md5/chars/pagans/pagan_female/pagan_female models/md5/chars/pagans/pagan_female/pagan_female_bare
 models/md5/chars/pagans/pagan_female/pagan_female_cloth textures/common/nodraw
}

skin characters/pagan_female/nocloth_tatoo
{
 model models/md5/chars/pagans/pagan_female/pagan_female_mesh.md5mesh

 models/md5/chars/pagans/pagan_female/pagan_female_cloth textures/common/nodraw
}

So she always has a tattooed head (oops, I misspelled tattoo in the skin decl ). Is there a way to include the skin for a def_head?

 

EDIT: For some reason her breasts became lopsided when I was rigging her

EDIT2: Her head's too big . . .

[ascottk]

Environment shot (click for larger size):

 

[OrbWeaver]

I like the dress, but the skin looks kind of weird. It's rather bland and plasticky, and I think there is something screwy going on with the mesh normals (unless it's just the lighting highlighting the mesh geometry).

[New Horizon]

Very cool shot. Very cool indeed. I love the approach you took with the dress, almost exactly how I would have envisioned it. It does look like there is something strange with the normals, as orb suggested. Not sure what's going on though.

[Springheel]

The dress is interesting...it has a nice normal and might look half-decent as fur as well. The skin colour definitely needs to be warmed up a bit...it's almost grey. It's been like that all along, however.