Harry's Models GPL'ed

[HarryButt]

These are the bugs I was talking about
I believe that's not all I have overlooked...

And by the way: zuriastrad, you're the man...

Although you missed the armor and the underpants, but I suppose that was absolutely your intention

[zuriastrad]

harrybutt-
i've got something for you. i made your model into a zym.

the pk3.
the blend file.

gotta warn you though, it's a very rough job on my part. the uvmapping is terrible, it's textured with a nexuiz floor tile texture and there isn't a proper skeleton, so it's not really anything more than the shape of your model gliding around the map, but i thought you might like to see it anyway.

i did have some major problems getting the mesh to export. even after deleting the internal faces that i pointed out earlier i still couldn't get it to export properly. i think it might have been something to do with the body and faceguard meshes being seperate objects. i selected both (in object mode), pressed W and selected "union". this made a third model where the two had combined to a hollow mesh. i tidied up some of the excess verts and it exported ok.

[HarryButt]

What about the armor? Doesn't it work if you merge the two objects with W -> Boolean Operation -> Join? I thought, this would remove the faces inside. At least, that's what I did when joining the back arms with the torso (they were separate objects at the beginning).

[zuriastrad]

And by the way: zuriastrad, you're the man...

thankyou.

yeah, join would combine them into one object, but it didn't seem to fix whatever was causing the script to fail. i'm going to have another look and see if i can find what was causing the problem. once i find it i'll let you know. i forgot about the armour and underpants. i wasn't making him nekkid on purpose or anything.

[zuriastrad]

just occurred to me that the problem could be because i'm using an svn build of blender and it might have a few bugs. worth bearing in mind.

[zuriastrad]

this is the error i keep getting. damn nuisance.

[zuriastrad]

ok. i started from scratch, uvmapped it properly and made sure i used all the parts of the model. i'm not getting the export script error anymore, not sure exactly why, but it's good news.

for the bulk of the model i uvmapped one side, mirrored it and applied the mirroring. then i uvmapped the chest belt thing afterwards. the uvmapping is pretty randomly spread around, but it wouldn't be too hard to shuffle it around and rescale it.
origin-0008.blend
origin-0002.pk3

[HarryButt]

Whoa... I never expected my first mesh to come that far...
The "only" stuff that's missing are animations, textures and normal maps, right?

[zuriastrad]

The "only" stuff that's missing are animations, textures and normal maps, right?

yep, just those few little things and it's done.

on the subject of textures i decided to bake ambient occlusion into the skin of the model to make it a bit more recognizable than the green tiled mess it had before. to do this i had to uvmap the model again (without mirroring). it's not a proper texture or anything, but it does look a lot better.

origin-0003.pk3
origin-0009.blend

Whoa... I never expected my first mesh to come that far..

well, i was really impressed by both your concept art and your meshwork, so i thought seeing your model in the game would be good encouragement. if you've got any questions about any of the stuff i did give me a shout and i'll be happy to talk you through it.

[KillaGrunt]

[quote="HarryButt"And by the way: zuriastrad, you're the man...
I agree with you all the way HarryButt