Earth Defense Operative!
polycounter lvl 18
X-COM: UFO Defense is easily one of my favorite games, ever. The series has yet to get a proper 3D sequel, so I decided to do my own take on an Earth soldier.
Wires
The final count is ~2440 polygons.
256x256 for the body, 128x128 for the head, and another 128 for the pistol and holster.
I should have re-distributed some polygons to the upper arms, but I didn't figure that out until I rigged it. He's got a cowboy look going, what with the squinty eyes and the revolver. Eastwood, maybe?
Whaddaya think?
Wires
The final count is ~2440 polygons.
256x256 for the body, 128x128 for the head, and another 128 for the pistol and holster.
I should have re-distributed some polygons to the upper arms, but I didn't figure that out until I rigged it. He's got a cowboy look going, what with the squinty eyes and the revolver. Eastwood, maybe?
Whaddaya think?
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anyhow, my crits would focus mainly on the shading. i like the subdued color choices, but the primary material reads as far too matte, i'd like to see more highlights. the vertical stripe down the upper arm really catches the eye because there are more highlights. now i'm not saying you should go crazy on the highlights, but i think it would definitely be serviced with more prominent highlighting on the main suit material.
the face is generic enough as a stand in for a number of different soldiers.. with the full head covering you've neatly avoided the issue of hair, so all you'd have to do really would be to make a couple of skin tone variants and i'd be ready to play!
so when does your freeware remake come out?
anyhow, looking good. plan on doing the personal armor and then the power armor?
I love the model its great! Do more do MORE!
Laces on space boots? Doesn't that create issues with the whole trying to keep out the vacume of space? Well so would not having a helmet so I guess he is in his atmosphere gear? The head looks a bit too high poly for the rest of the body and you might be able trim 200-500 polys from the head and not see the detail of the model take a hit at all.
Looks great! Lets see more! Lets see if we can't find you a lvl designer and a coder, before you know it BAM you have mod!
OoOOooHhhh... BF2 mod... drool....
Great X-com clone that is useing the Quake2 engine, try it out
and yes xcom was an amazing game
Crits if any permitted, the boots make it a lit' Mechy but seems good for what they are.
-peanut
Very nice
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Its for fun i guess, they where talks at microprose about making it in full blown 3d (around 1998-1999) but the project was left asside for lack of finance in some part.
gauss - I thought about giving him a helmet, too. It might be fun to give him more equipment and some skin variants. He could get the full action figure treatment, yea? I'm going to take a final pass at the texture, and I'll keep the contrast in mind.
I'm also doing another model with the same 'earth defense' premise. I'm not necessarily sticking to the X-COM armor classifications, although it is the main inspiration.
Vig - I have the XP version myself. There's an exe fix for the DirectDraw problem, but its not quite 100%.
I did use some high altitude suits as reference, and you make a fair point about that pesky vacuum problem. He'd probably look better without the laces, so I'll revisit that.
JKMakowka - I remember seeing this before. Seems like there's tons of fan projects. No harm in trying.
SyaPed - Originally this was for a mod concept, but its just me, really, so I would say its for fun.
I'll bump the thread sometime later with an update and hopefully a second model. Thanks for all the feedback!
Haven't abandoned this model yet, but I hit a dead end with the texture a while ago. This would be the light armor variant.
I feel that the design is pretty blah, but I thought I'd show you guys. I could use some advice on the skin.
crit on the first design, so if a girl was wearing the suit, those nipples on the front heh.
And if its supposed to be a girl the Upperbody looks to much like a boy lol >.<. Other then that it looks good.
Jeremya Is right though, It could use some armor on the arms
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It looks very weird.. If its supposed to be a boy.. The legs look to much like a girl
And if its supposed to be a girl the Upperbody looks to much like a boy lol >.<. Other then that it looks good.
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That's the first impression i got...still very nice work! all hail X-Com!