Ayane

KDR_11k

Due to popular demand I'm making the dark ninja Ayane for UT2003/04. Despite looking like a Sailormoon extra and coming in a gift wrap she's a deadly assassin and the most popular character in the DoA roster.

Ayane is untextured except for the eyes and an alphamap for the hair. I've put edgeloops where the materials change to add UV seams there since someone suggested that when I pimped Kasumi, I'll probably remove the yellow trim on her "belt". I tried to avoid needing doublesided solid materials so I only have to make the alpha bits doublesided and make the shield effect work better with the model. The back of the skirt (and most likely the front as well) probably needs some more adjusting to deform better, the proportions are those of the UT2 default female skeleton.

It's annoying, there seem to be almost no pictures of her default outfit on the net so I had to use the manual (which has no picture of her entire body in it) and some quick glances during gameplay as my refs.

MoP

Pretty cool. I like her face.
Her feet seem a bit awkward and formless, and also you really should add some boobygons(tm) to round out the shape there.

Steve Schulze

She's the most popular? I always prefered the one with the braids myself.

Looks pretty decent, though I think perhaps her nose might be a bit on the big side

spider2cool

how many months is she? is it a boy or a girl? Just joking. she looks good, only crit for me is she looks like she is in her 2nd trimester.

PolyMonkey

You pretty much nailed her with the bow and all. I would just say she does appear to be a bit on the heavier side. Thin her out a bit.

Scott Ruggels

Are you going to "portray the physyics" as it were for the run cycle?

Scott

Sean McBride

hahaha pretty good stuff KDR!

*sets age to 99*

KDR_11k

I put her on a strict diet, gave her more of Mop's patented Boobygons(tm), worked on the feet a bit and adjusted her backside for deformation. No problems with bad deformation anymore. UVmapped her and started texturing (painted the face so far). Somehow she lost 40 triangles in the process.

Jackablade: Judging by the number of "Ayane is better" comments whenever a DoA character is brought up she does seem to be the most popular.

Scott: Sorry, the animations in UT2004 are too many for me and I can only use Milkshape for that (Blender has no exporter for UT2004's format). I'd rather ram a knife into my gut than go through the pain of making that many anims in Milkshape. She'll use the default animations so no "physics" for her.

n30: What does that age setting do, anyway? I mean, except tell you that the game is meant for 13 year olds (default age)?

KDR_11k

Does anyone have a picture of her that shows the front of her skirt? It's impossible to find anything like that on the internet, most people are only interested in her upper half.

Cubik

o rly!?!?

KDR_11k

Thanks man, I couldn't find anything like that.

Sean McBride

Haha, the higher the age the more brest bounce there is.

at 99 its not crazy insane but its VERY obvious!

KDR_11k

... What did I expect from that game?

I wonder if "Age" is a play on "H"?

KDR_11k

Textured! I've decided to shrink her textures by half for the ingame version, barely a difference. That's probably not a good sign.

Download! (currently marked as test release, just in case anyone discovers issues that need fixing)

stoofoo

Looks nice. Your highlights and midtones are all kinds of white. Try and deal with that, eh?

KDR_11k

I used a brighter and less saturated color (or, in the case of the skintone, more yellowish) for the highlight, then added white to the highest point. I suppose the result just looks as if I had used plain white...