[Dota2] – Nyx Assassin – The Chosen's Carapace

Mulkyz

Here it is, all together:


Let me know what you think




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Hey guys, working on a set for my favorite hero. So far I've done a basic first concept, I'd like some opinions on color and the armor itself.

Thanks


Edit: items on their own.

Claws:


Horn:


Body Armor:

Ex4000

Looks pretty cool, I think it might be a little to much like the default armor though, its hard to tell without it being 3d.

Mulkyz

Yeah I agree. That's why I was looking at doing some of the different colors, like blue to look a bit more royal.

Here's an alternate horn to break it up a bit, and make it more different from the original:

Mulkyz

Alright, so I think I'll have to stick with red. It'd be nice if I could ask Valve what they thought of the color scheme for Nyx, because I've had a lot of people say they like the blue and green.

Anyway, some more horn refinement and back armor ideas, and also the original model for comparison:

Mulkyz

Gotten a bunch of feedback so far and the combined opinions have led to this:



I do like the other horns quite a lot so I might make them seperately afterwards to come out alongside the set

Mulkyz

So the thread's been quite a wasteland.

I can only really assume that's because the design isn't wildly different from the original. I'm mostly worried that if I do something crazy and creative that it wouldn't get in the game, since Valve have set pretty strict requirements with the characters, and need to keep a similar shape and set of colors

If only I could summon them and ask, haha.

Mavell Duceau

Well i for one hink it looks muchly good! especially the hooked claws.

Core7SO

I kind of have the same problem also with NA.

Feedback from here and from personal friends that my set was "too similar" to the default. I just jumped on modeling a blocky base mesh, and after little tweaks during the modelling process I tested it in game; and I found the charm I wanted to give on it without even being half finished. Now I'm more secure on what to change, what to improve, what to conserve, what to discard; and even got little ideas I should experiment with.

So I suggest you to follow the same way just keep the work flow and if you feel like doing crazy stuff but you are worried, do it gradually, so you can keep it under control, and don't have to scrap everything to start over

Mulkyz

Thanks Mavell much appreciated

That actually makes sense Core, I was really hesitant about modelling because I don't want to get to the end and change my mind about it. When you think about custom sets that are already in the game they are actually pretty similar in concept, I think it just doesn't fully come out until it's actually in game. Thanks a lot

Mulkyz

Done a basic layout of the modelled set, still getting the right shape and whatnot.



I'm happy with the shape of the horn, but texture-wise I might alter it to fit something on it rather than just flat metal.

Thoughts?

Tvidotto

Great progress

Mulkyz

Slow progress since I'm still kinda buried in school work. Our big project finishes this week so hopefully I can spend a bunch of time texturing. Here's the basic colors, I've worked a little bit on the weapons:

Mulkyz

Done some texturing on the weapons, here they are in dota:

I'm having trouble matching the shininess of Nyx's default armor with the two masks, even though I'm using values that are pretty close to Nyx's.

JGcount

Well, it is going to be hard for you to catch the light the same way, since you dont have a normal map, if I am not mistaking?

Mulkyz

You are correct - I don't own any sort of sculpting program since I'm just starting out. Do you think it'd be better to just use a program like nDo to make one?

Previously I've made a pair of Lycan claws and managed to get them to match pretty well without the use of a normal map.

Mulkyz

Ok, hardened some edges and messed with the mask1 and mask2 files. Relatively happy with it for now:

there's a weird gold color that shows up at the tip of the blades at certain angles (you can see it in this picture), I'm not sure what that is but it's not the biggest problem so I'll work on texturing the other pieces of the set now since there is only just over a week left

JGcount

I think it would be worth it, just to reinforce that gold rim on the armor parts, with a normal map.

In terms of the gold spec on the claws, nyx has some funny things with the "diffuse spec color" layer in the masks where yellow/brown patches show up. Haven't been able to completely figure it out myself

Mulkyz

JG I made the claws darker in the alpha channel of mask 2 and it changed that weird shine from yellow to blue. I also added a normal map for the gold trim, wow it makes a difference. Thanks for the suggestion


I also redid the pattern and colors on the shield. Although there is still that problem with the blue shine on the tips I may have to just start on the helmet and armor since time's running out.

Mulkyz

Helmet is now in-engine and almost ready to go pretty happy with it other than the ridiculous saturation on the horn. I'll tweak the mask1 and mask2 files tomorrow and then start on the body armor

Mulkyz

Helmet is all fixed



Onto the body armor

Mulkyz

Armor is in



I can't figure out a way to get the whole set in game though, I might have to just use marmoset or something to have the whole thing together

Mulkyz

3 imports and a little photoshop does the trick

Clyptic

Nice job looks good, the presentation render is really dark though. Need to add some light to that scene.

Mulkyz

Thanks

Yeah it is hey, I think I made the background too dark as well, was kind of trying to make it sort of night-ish but ended up making it invisible