character - girl in cocktail dress (hl2dm)

warby

i just posted this on cg chat:

shes roughly 5k polys





she is based on an older ut2k4 custom model i made a while ago.

together with the pics of the actual model ... http://riviera.heaven.nexusirc.at/warby/pics.php?file=characters/ut2k4/kitty_ingame.jpg

...i also posted this picture to tease the peole http://riviera.heaven.nexusirc.at/warby/pics.php?file=wip/kitty_skin_colored_team_colors.jpg

the "test audience" liked it so much that i decided to make her some more "casual" outfits expect more to follow

notman

Looks good.... might want to add NWS in the title though

warby

NWS ???

Wells

Not Work Safe.

Looks pretty good, though I can't say as I've seen a lot of cocktail dresses like that. I wish I had, though.

warby

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Looks pretty good, though I can't say as I've seen a lot of cocktail dresses like that. I wish I had, though.

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hrhrhrhrh thats excellent iam addingthat

i was allready brain stroming nws Nudity W... Sexual content .... what the hell could that mean

its of course more sluty than a cocktail dress but i just cant find a more appropriate name for the outfit

Steve Schulze

Translucent negligee, perhaps...

Your alpha maps look they could use a whole lot of cleaning up. The look really noisy at this stage, particularly from a distance.

You could push the shading on the flesh tones quite a bit further too.

DeathKitten

I believe the term you are looking for is Chemise.

example:
http://shop.trashy.com/index.php?s=product&set_id=211

I think she needs a few wrinkles/folds where her hips meet her waist & under her breasts, to make her look a little more realistic. Other than that she is quite lovely

-DK =^..^=

warby

chemise ey ? i love it




falts and wrinkles and anti noise in progress

MoP

Looks pretty good.

There are a few things so far that I would really try to fix... mainly the skintone is really weird, it's kinda too orange and pink at the same time. Also there's not really enough colour variation and it's too smooth.

Shoulder joint on the model looks very weird, not very anatomically correct, it needs more bulk around the armpit, and shouldn't curve up that way at the top.

The chemise looks like it needs some more manufacturing seams, stitching and stuff - at the moment it just looks like weird transparent stuff floating over her body. The fact that you can see a definite (and consistent) distance from her flesh looks really weird, it's like it's floating and not being worn.

I think this could be really good if you fix those issues... right now I just think it's quite good

MoP

hawken

The dress doesn't hang very convincingly, you'd be better off hanging it from her body, not wrapping it like a shell.

apart from that, it's FAP FAP -tastic!!

I'd disagree with mop over the skin tones however, she is a ginger bird, and therefor, Ginger complextion suit her.

MAUL0r

i'd not call that a "cocktail dress" more like a "cocktease dress"

Weiser_Cain

Nice site. How about a sdk?

ElysiumGX

I agree with MoP about the shoulder joint. Very disconnected from the torso. Up close, the nose is out of shape, the ears are out of place, and she's going bald. I think you went too far with the detail of the eyes, and not far enough with any other aspect of the texturing. For 5k, the texture does very little to bring her personality. She's more attractive from a distance. It's a good start tho.

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that will be running around a battle zone with a shotgun.

Etienne

Hey! I remember this character!
Are you planing to post the "updated" version for UT2004 also?
Different tones for the clothing for team colors shouldn't be too hard to do also... No?

I still use this character once in a while.

TTYL

Etienne

warby

glad to hear that people acutaly pay with these custom models ^^

making a ut port would be a bunch of extra work but i bet as soon as ut2k7 comes out i wont be able to stop myself of once more revising this character

Etienne

I honestly wonder what software will Epic support this time. I believe they might have gone back to 3DMax, but Maya still has a lot to offer. Remember that UT2K7 will also support normal mapping, so ppl will be able to put a lot more in the characters and environment... well... if it does take too long to do.

I really like your first chick because she "fits" in the UT environment. Characters that stand out too much, or don't have team colors are deleted from my PC.

TTYL

Etiene

KDR_11k

The Unreal Engine is Epic's primary product, of course it will accept both Maya and MAX otherwise someone might decide they shouldn't buy the UE because their team would have to relearn and their pipeline change.

ElysiumGX

As far as I know...the THREE main commercial 3d apps are supported. Max and Maya of course, and XSI's Unreal tools were released stating they would also work with Unreal Engine 3. And those of us who use them know they do. I don't think the editors are changing very much...just getting more advanced additions. That's why Unreal Engine rocks!!! So...back on topic. The title says HL2DM.

Etienne

Wooo... Half-Life2 DM? That was fun ... for like ... 10 minutes ... I with there was something more that just a couple of room and a gavity gun...

Etienne

Jelmer

Deffinatly work on the eye. The iris pops out way too much right now, and add a lower eyelid! Here's a little .gif by miss Bergkvist.

Etienne

I wonder... if it's easyer to export a model in HL2 or in UT2K4...

Etienne

spider2cool

i hope you plan on adding some hair on the actual head texture to make the hair look like it blends into the modeled hair. right now it looks like she is wearing a wig and she is really bald. look around the ear and you will see what i am talking about. I have to agree with hawken about the "shell" thing. like the idea though...(i had to look real hard to even see the face...lol).

KDR_11k

I wonder... if it's easyer to export a model in HL2 or in UT2K4...

UT2004. No contest.

Etienne

Cool... I never got my models to work for UT2K4... problems with the bones and stuff... I might retry something soon.

Etienne

Zatoichi

My only critique with this is that the nipples look smaller than her eyes. That's just wrong... IMHO.

warby

final texture pics of the other dress will follow soon

Etienne

Mmmm... I love the black dress...

Etienne

Corry Frydlewicz

Not sure if it's my screen or not, but no one else has mentioned the seam running down her face.

And I agree with the flesh tone comments. She looks like she's being overlit... like a Sims character.

KDR_11k

That seam is just an unwelded center seam (not all mirroring methods can weld those automatically). Noone pays attention to those because it's assumed that it will be welded when the model is done.

warby

j0 listen to kdr that man knows what he is talking about




*fingers on the stop watch* flaming warby for being an anime nerd ... commence ... NOW !

Etienne

So desu Nga~?

Etienne

acc

That nose bugs the heck out of me. It looks like someone took a baseball bat, swung it swideways just under the eyes, and squashed her nose right in. ElysiumGX had it right when he said she's attractive from a distance.

Body is great, though, and I like the hair. Go go nekomimi

warby

so all the dresses are done model uv map and texture wise


now for some rigging ... ( last chance to motivate me to change/fix something ... with a paint over ... or something )

Zatoichi

OMGWTF... heh, just kidding. Not bad, has that DOA look to her.

Etienne

Wow...I love the work on the maid dress...
I guess you won't need team color for HL2DM...

Etienne

Dark Sepiroth

haha nice work warby
I guess if I would rent a maiden I would rent her :P

Etienne

How is the rigging coming along?

Etienne

warby

only very slow iam preparing to move to hamburg right now so i dont realy find the time to do anything else besides work in the offcie and preparations

JKMakowka

Hamburg, Germany?
What made ya move (back?) to good old europe?

warby

my visa runs out ^^

KDR_11k

And a Master Card isn't an option ?

warby

hell no of course not ...

oliver

Looks cool and funny. I remember her in UTk4.

warby

rigging is making progress


mega special credity for x-tender for the 1337 cloth layer rigging script

CheapAlert

that arm on the leftmost pic is really twizzler bended

warby

hmmmm yes .... ill get right on that ... ( the should thign wont be fixable i am using a realy mean hack to compensate for something the valve people do during their animations with the should bones )

Etienne

nice... work...
Is the model still due dor HL3DM?

Etienne

Weiser_Cain

Stop with the poses, you'll make me blush!

warby

sure is another done rigg /pose pirtae costume by hessi j0

Joao Sapiro

well, she seems elastic woman, :P

i like the proportions !

EarthQuake

I think that the texture could use a lot more detail, the photosourced textures from that pirate costume on the really basic cartoony skin looks wierd to me. (she dosent even have fingernails!)