Jerboa's Models

[greebo]

I hope you're not offended, but I'm somehow not convinced by the looks of that staff at all. It looks very simplistic, the texture suggests that it is some sort of stuffed animal.

 

The way I'd approach it would be to go as high-poly as you can with the staff's head and use the sculpting tools to form the details into the snake head - does your modeling software provide any sculpting tools?

[Jerboa]

No offense taken, crits are important for improvements and works should be counted as a team group effort. I'll take it back into modeler and do some slow poly ramping to see if I can get a more realistic menacing appearance.

 

The modeler I use is wings3d and it does have a tweaking tool.

[Jerboa]

I've done some more tweaking and went with a suggested wood variant. With gold fangs and fire opal eyes. I am considering changing out the cloth hand grip for a leather one.

[Springheel]

I went back and did some teaking on the chair. It was rendering really screwed up in game, and had some problems with weird misplaced verts in the uvmap. I also added a working collision mesh and entitydef, and added bottoms to the legs so it can be tipped over. Also added two new skins.

 

The new chair is saved as chair_triangular.

[Crispy]

:thumbs up @ SH :

 

I've done some more tweaking and went with a suggested wood variant. With gold fangs and fire opal eyes. I am considering changing out the cloth hand grip for a leather one.

Oops, didn't see this a month ago. That's better, but it's still not ferocious enough (I want it to scare me!) and the grey on the inside of the mouth is odd.

[Bikerdude]

Where is this model/prefab..?

 

[update] ignore I found it under "models/darkmod/tools/wine_press01.lwo"

[Briareos H]

I don't have the faintest idea on how this press works.

[Bikerdude]

I don't have the faintest idea on how this press works.

Its a static model, but its models on RL versions, you simple turn the handle at the top that turns the screw with a plate on the bottom. The plate squashes the grapes and the resulting juices are then drained into in barrels and fermented with yeast and bobs yer uncle.

[Briareos H]

Sure! Except the plate is at the top of the screw in this model so there's no way it can do anything, it should be at the bottom

[Bikerdude]

it should be at the bottom

Its empty atm, so naturally the plate would be at the top.

[Springheel]

I think what he's getting at is if the plate is at the top, then the screw should be sticking much further up. As it is, there's no room to turn the screw and move the plate down.

[Bikerdude]

ah ok, for some reason I thought the screw was fixed but turns and the plate was on rails so would move down as the screw was turned.