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It starts May 12, and ends Sept 12. Let's see what you got!
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[Dota 2] - Dazzle - Yuwipi
Hey!
I wanted to create a set for dazzle, using his native american and dark influences as a guide. Just trying to get it fleshed out with these concepts. Lemme know what you guys think!
I wanted to create a set for dazzle, using his native american and dark influences as a guide. Just trying to get it fleshed out with these concepts. Lemme know what you guys think!
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Am I really the only one who likes 3? I think the mask, weapon, and the unique take on the "headdress" looks awesome.
4 works really well to, but too much indian!
then I like 5 more bc it's more original
EDIT: By the way. You may want to know that your entry was featured on the Dota 2 blog. Congrats!
Anywho, back to business. After seeing all the comments and using my own judgement, I think 1 and 4 are obviously the strongest choices, with 5 being a wild card. I don't see 5 working as is though, it doesnt have quite the volume the original does.
I made a quick mock up of the design for you guys to see what I'm talking about.
The second picture is just kind of round 2. Just mix-and-matching, picking elements I thought were most successful, trying to solidify the design. If there other combinations you guys want to see, lemme know, and I'll see what I can do!
For everything else there is NOTHING I can complain about.
I've been working on the highpoly for the first version.
The biggest thing I'm concerned about is the approach to the bones on his skirt... not sure if its too heavyhanded. I'm not also not 100% sure about the design on his hip pads, but that can be changed easily if necessary. Lemme know what you think!
I'm definitely gonna try that out Managor. I have a couple other ideas to try out as well... should be fun
Thanks to everyone for commenting!
One thing though: I would play around with moving the tuffts of hair to different sides when looking at him straight on. That will make it look way more interesting ESPECIALLY from the 45 degree top down angle he has in-game
Other than that it's looking fantastic.
You could also trim the bones down to only have the 2nd and 4th bone if that would let you keep some bones if 4 is too much.
I think the design on the hip pads will come down to the textures themselves rather than what you can actually model. There's lots of stuff you can do with those. Considering there is 3 dots and Dazzle has 3 fingers there's something you can play with there considering the tribal theme. Lots to play with that you can't necessarily see even on a high poly model.
About the symmetry of his fur, I've thought about it, but I really don't think its an issue... Dazzles mohawk is symmetrical as well, but his animation adds the sway and asymmetry. So, in-game you won't ever notice.
As for the tri-count of his skirt, it's definitely gonna be close! But I think I can just squeeze it out... I've already removed one the bones and made them bigger to help with this. Also, I checked when making the sculpt base how many tris I was at, and it was just over. So, I should be able to trim a little here and there.
Gonna be making the low poly's for these pretty soon... so, if you guys like one over the other, drop a comment!
I still have to rework the wild card design... should be coming up next!
And the headdress detail...
I don't think I will have time to work up the other designs...So I will have to stick this one.
Gonna be working next on his staff, arm slot and the earrings for the misc(?) slot. Hopefully I can get this stuff pumped out quickly!
C&C welcome!
Managed to work out the arm stuff
Can't wait to get started on the staff
Ever since the last update(I think), I have not been able to test items for Dazzle in the game... it still works for the other heroes though. Also, all of my items that previously worked don't work anymore. When I try to import it gives me this error.
Failed to load specified VMT template 'materials/models/heroes/dazzle/dark.vmt' for class 'dazzle'.
WARNING: CTargetZIP::Compile - Target 0 Compile Failed
I've already verified the game cache...but I can't seem to find anything on the dark.vmt. Can any of you import his items? Is it just on my end?
Any ideas?
I'll have a try when I get home from work and let ya know if I'm having problems.