[KF2] – Item – Van Alberts set

Hawt Koffee

so since Halloween is coming up and we all know how much Tripwire loves Halloween I thought going for a more costumed vibe while still keeping to the monster killing theme, Alberts is my favourite character so I thought I'd make something for him first, and since he's a holy man after all, a VAMPIRE HUNTER kind of get up seems pretty appropriate.




so I've blocked out the main 2 items of the set
The hat will go to the hat attach point obviously
but the scarf and cape will go on the jaw attach point so you can still wear things like the sunglasses with the whole set.

gonna sculpt the details in a bit

Hawt Koffee

at the time of posting most of the details had already been sculpted but it's still pretty far from being complete

current highres form

Dylan Brady

that is looking badass!
Are clothing items like that cloak allowed? if so thats really kool

Hells High

Nice, I like it!

Hawt Koffee

Dylan Brady wrote: »

that is looking badass!
Are clothing items like that cloak allowed? if so thats really kool

Ana has a scarf that goes down around her shoulder area and is skinned to her collar/shoulders

If I assume Tripwire plan on going the TF2 route and never alter the characters actual meshes then doing stuff like this where the clothing works around the rest of the character mesh (a la tf2) then this should be technically fine.

whether or not it is stylistically fine is up to Tripwire.

TF2 had a slow burn up to crazy full body items, rather than take the slow route of exclusively "head" items I'm gonna jump the shark and go straight to the experimenting, seeing how much we can really get away with.
I feel that something like this cloak seems like a pretty tame spot to start.

WadeWT

This is badass, Alberts is also my favourite character and I'd totally sport this.

Hawt Koffee

Some updates on the lows and some marmoset test shots



I sure hope I can turn off backface culling in the sdk
Texture is definitely not final

MichaelF

The folds on the back are flawless!

Hawt Koffee

hats done
time for textures

Hawt Koffee

Texture work

Dylan Brady

nice! good folds.

Hawt Koffee

this compression is killing me
Also blenders fbx exporters is drastically offsetting my mesh

The top mesh is the one I normally work on, when imported it floats high above the characters in the sdk model preview.
the bottom mesh is where I've manually moved the mesh I'm exporting to get it to appear correctly on the characters.

not very helpful as I have to work through trial and error to get the rigging right AND the placement right.

Hawt Koffee

EDIT: fixed import issues, just can't get the bloody thing to deform

Hawt Koffee

Ok so instead of offsetting my mesh, I import my workmodel and use the extra mesh options instead of the socket manager

only after that does it actually deform.

danpaz3d

This is looking great! Hope you can get the rigging working.

Hawt Koffee

danpaz3d wrote: »

This is looking great! Hope you can get the rigging working.

it is working, I just can't spawn it as an interp actor to preview it on the character

Hawt Koffee

I feel like I'm gonna have to scrap the cloak due to lack of support.

danpaz3d

Maybe this could help? Not sure. I guess you need to follow the process in the KF2 Wiki. But this could get it working.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QiZrtDQMnA[/ame]

RedNick

Someone made a guide recently on previewing rigged cosmetics. Maybe it can help you.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=531527094

Hawt Koffee

We're finally finished

Workshop link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=533793904
Dev Thread: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=157610