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I've finished the texturing and got the model rigged, but it needs to be animated, or modified to use the current animation set. I'm releasing it now as I doubt I'll have much time to work on it for a while.
Source tarball (.blend and .xcf files): karotep-0.1-src.tar.bz2

Render:


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I've been working on a custom Nexuiz playermodel for a while now, it's my first stab at a humanoid model, and well... basically is it any good? What do YOU, the community think of my nubmodeling?

pics and stoof here: http://www.haosredro.com/nex/model-karotep/index.html


...and yes, I do think that chainsaws are teh melee weapons of champions.

Kewl

Keep it up coming!

Looks pretty good so far! I like the concept art Keep up the good work!

nubmodeling? sure don't look very nooby to me i really like the concept too, looking forward to seeing how it progresses.

You generally want to only have quads. Try to stay clear from triangles where ever possible. Places that wouldn't be animated much can technically have triangles but it's good practice to use quads all the time.
I also see that the face have a 5 sided polygon, not this is a bad thing as such things can be deformed in ways that you might not intend it for. Thankfully that place is easy to fix, just merging that one vertex with the one on the same line. But you would also want to clean up those triangles as well.

I've made a skeleton and done some basic rigging. Still needs loads of weight-tweaking to make the mesh deform properly, haven't ran into any triangle-related b0rkage yet though (or at least, I don't *think* I have ) Still need to add the nex-specific bits to the skeleton - the "gun bone" and what not.

Screenshot

It looks good! Keep it up, the concept is great.

Looks like a pretty good concept to model translation to me

May we see a screenshot of the unwrap (the islands I mean)?

Sure: http://www.haosredro.com/nex/model-karotep/shot8.png

Not the most optimised unwrap in the world

Edit: Early skin WIP

*bump*

About half-way with the skin now:

Hell yes! Nice work

Yeah, looks great so far.

bump: source release available, see first post.

Wow, nice work taiyo

Really, I would say it looks very good. I wonder if you could smooth out those pectoral polygons, they are a bit angular (just on the UV map), and maybe give it some kind of tint, rather than all gray.

Please, someone rig it!

Yay, that's awesome! Great job!

torus wrote:Wow, nice work taiyo

Really, I would say it looks very good. I wonder if you could smooth out those pectoral polygons, they are a bit angular (just on the UV map), and maybe give it some kind of tint, rather than all gray.

The visible polys are due to the material settings in Blender - they don't show at all in-game (through GL rendering). Some of the grey scales are on a separate layer in the GIMP file, so tinting these will be easy. I need to rework this so that all the scales on their own layer. I'm hoping to get the shirt/pants skins done soon too.

The model is already rigged, though the bones will need renaming to use the stock animation set.

I urge you NOT to just color the whole damn thing the teamcolor, like the Carni is- that always looks really bad. If you can do it tastefully, that would be much better.

Also, I believe you can just hit 'smooth' in blender, and the render will be smoothshaded

torus wrote:I urge you NOT to just color the whole damn thing the teamcolor

No, no, by "tint" I meant to have the scales/skin different colours from the grey/brown scheme (is that what you meant?). I think I'll make patterns from the scales for shirt/pants colour (as in colouring different sets of scales to make the patterns).
The auto smoothing with an angle of 60° does make it look somewhat more like it does in-game.