New Pimp: Elektra

[eklipse]

hehe, well i havnt seen it yet so i dont have an opinion of it . well ive decided to start some variants to her such as giving her a stealth uniform...ill post some screen shots when i get far enough, and Devil_D wanted me to do a skin for him as well. his will be for the armored version of Marygold. cant wait to get my hands on it Hide

 

[Hide]

WIP 2.
This is done in the near future.

 

[eklipse]

=o! i love it! . that looks awsome Hide, i cant wait for you to release it

 

[Hide]

Finished.
It's your turn.
Good luck.

UVmap for body was not changed, but was shrinked.
You can use your texture for body, if you shrink it to 768x768.

 

[eklipse]

awsome! thanks a lot Hide , i really appreciate the time you took to add the armor to her, ill get started right away. ^_^

 

[eklipse]

Update:

Shot4

heres what i have so far with the 'basic' armor version. im gonna do the heavy version using all that Hide put onto the model, but id like to make the armor a different color than the standard purple...if anyone knows of a good color that matches her, then please share it

 

[daloonie]

Ouch that is some sweet upgrade

 

[Devil_D]

Looks great!
I cant wait to see more of your skins!

And Hide, great work on adding the armor!

 

[Lei Hng Wei]

She should have a sweet logo on her back

Ya know, I'm curious about that. Is it possible to add a Team Symbol tag so we can have a logo on the back, or shoulders, or where ever the skinner wants it.

And better add me to the "great job guys", 'cause I like what I see.

 

[eklipse]

well, there is a shield symbol with a thunderbolt on her shoulders...i could put a logo on her back as well, ill have to see what symbol would look good on her

 

[Kantham]

pretty nice skin ,

i can't do better atm , i like teh hair , they are stylish

 

[eklipse]

well, its been a while since i posted here, so i better keep you guys updated ^_^;. well at the moment, the whole model now has textures, but i did run into an issue with making a shader with transparent parts...for instance, the light armor version doesnt have the bottom thy pads nor the bottom arm pads so they show up as transparent. no biggie, thats what i wanted but here comes the issue: when i made the shader so that the gold trim would shine, the model now doesnt want to render the shadow of the body...well more or less UT doesnt want to render the shadow. so im tring to figure out if this is a bug with UT or that i did something wrong x_x;. did you guys run into anything like this when working with transparent shaders?

 

[Hide]

Programable shader of ut2k4 has lots of problems in "alpha blending".

If you don't need "half transparent", you can use "mask" instead of "alpha blend".

Try to set "OutputBlending" as "OB_Masked" in your shader's property.
Then, alpha channel of the texture which is set in "Opacity" works as "mask" instead of "alpha blend".

 

[eklipse]

sorry that i havnt been on lately guys >_<;...anyways, i managed to fix that bug with the shadow. it seems that i had to make a final blend for UT to render her shadow >_>;. funny enough, i was originally trying to figure out why UT Comp wouldnt render my skin as well as Marygold and other shader related skins...it seems that UT Comp doesnt LIKE .upl files calling for shaders ;. it has to be either a texture or a final blend for UT Comp to render the skin. very picky >_>;...anyways i have one final skin to go and its a stealth version of her armor...another thing, how can you fix the LOD setting? i wanna try to import the skeleton mesh so it doesnt have to use the Marygold model anymore, but when i tried it messed up the LOD setting on the Elektra mesh so she looks funky from a distance >_<;.

 

[eklipse]

scratch that question, just figured it out ^_^;;

 

[Devil_D]

Just a question: What is UT Comp???

 

[eklipse]

well its a program designed for competition use between clans...some servers have it enabled regardless so it kinda annoyed me that some skins dont work because they called for a shader...its kinda weird that way ;

 

[eklipse]

well...after being busy with life, plus being unmotivated and stuck for a bit its finally done ;...sorry i took so long guys, i know that some of you were looking foward to seeing the armored version ._.;...but i hope you wont be dissappointed with it:

Stealth 1
Stealth 2
Stealth 3

she looks really nice in game with the shader that i applied to her stealth uniform =o~...anyways, im gonna send the link to SaD for download and itll be up here shortly ...for those of you that had downloaded the original, just let it overwrite the old files...all itll do is 'update' it so that it doesnt use the Marygold model anymore, but the Elektra model.

 

[Devil_D]

I cant wait to see more skins from you!

Keep up the good work!

 

[Kantham]

, ugh , man , nice work , i just think about this:

when i see her , i can't do better