Return of the brown coats :)

ultramedia

Hi Everyone,

Over the holidays I hope to put together a video tutorial for my site (www.showmethatagain.com) showing how to get a custom character into UDK, and I needed an example character to use in the tutorial. So I dug up this old model and done a bunch of fixing up on his textures - they were terrible - and now he's looking a much better

glottis8

His eyes look like are looking in opposite direction.

rescale

He looks a bit like Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly, or ?

Hayden Zammit

Just finished watching Firefly. Man what a show, and what a character.

ultramedia

Yep, I don't think it will really look like him until I put a face rig in it and make him pull a dozen different funny faces

Dim

You seem to be missing any wrinkles on the pants, and a lot of definition/contrast in the textures. Good start though.

SanderDL

The belt seems really low. It is never going to hold up his pants like this. Good start though and I'm interested in that tutorial too!

Dim

In Ultramedia's defense, he does have suspenders.....

ultramedia

Oops, I should have shown the reference I used for them, here you go :


I am going to bake some proper lighting and grunge into the textures, but at the moment I'm just caught up in smoothing out a workflow between blender and udk...

RAWTalent

It's castle! Textures could do with some biking and dirt IMO

odium

CAPTAIN TIGHTPANTS!!!!! *SSSSQQQQQUUUUUUUEEEEEE*

SanderDL

hmmm yeah I guess that explains :poly136:

ultramedia

Hmmm... max to udk (via actorx) works pretty much out of the box, but blender to udk is giving me a good solid fight for my money...

Dim

Yeah, please let us know if you find a smooth way between the two programs. I've been building an environment between them, and it's been borderline unusable. I've been using the .ase exporter found on Katsbits, but it doesn't support multiple material IDs, or any sort of normals (even when edgesplit is applied).

ultramedia

Unfortunately, for now at least, I need to take a break from trying to connect blender to udk, it's just been one crappy problem after another. I might have another go at it in January, but for now I'm going to do some non game stuff just for the sake of doing something that actually works.