Female warrior for Quake 3

Valandar

Well, as some have noted, I've finally gotten around to trying to make models for Quake 3. The first one I'm doing is actually a conversion of a mesh I made for the game Freedom Force a few months back.



It was originally designed as a Valkyrie type, and in FF she used twin swords (since any weapons or the like were PART of the mesh).

Naturally, she no longer has her swords, but is gonna trade them in for a rocket launcher first chance she gets.

She might be pushing the envelope a bit - she's right at 2000 tris. Nowadays the systems can handle it easily, so I'm probably gonna leave the main one where it is. On the other hand, I'm not quite sure how to make LOD support (both reducing polycount without having the skins go haywire, AND howto set everything up to accept it).

She uses a single 512x512 skin, by the way:

almighty_gir

why do some parts of the texture look so photosourced, and others look so painted? the mix just doesnt sit well at all =/

Valandar

Because the face was a render I made of a Poser figure... the rest was all hand-done

CheapAlert

the bright parts of the skin WILL get overexposed in q3a's overbrights you know

Valandar

True. I can always dim it down in Photoshop.

By the way, the picture of the model itself was done in Max, with a "Zero strength light" and the skin applied as a self-illumination map as well.

Valandar

Okay, all I have left to do is move the tag_weapon a teeny bit closer to the body, and then wait for my friend to record the grunts, etc for her sound pack.

steady

cool! I think she looks nice. Glad to see someone making a ppm for my favorite game ever.

J03M4M4

the gashes or dents/cuts into the armor look not random enough in the max render, then in the game render the whole thing is very dark, I thought the Q3 engine would of surely made this skin stand out. Not be so dark. Red is supposed to be a flashy color right? What is the story behind her?

Valandar

The story is rather cliche, actually... I hadthe idea of doing a mod for the game Freedom Force a while back where Armageddon occurred, and all the world mythologies jumped in on whatever side was appropriate - you had Valkyries, Garadu, Kenku, and other relatively "benevolent" mythical beings on the side of light, against Daikini, Oni, Harpies, and other relatively "malevolent" critters on the Other side. This particular model was for a Valkyrie.