LPC #05 - El Z0rR - Posion Zombie (hL2)

El Z0rR

I'm working on a poison head crab zombie as seen in HL2. Thats the screaming black things that have a poison head crab on their head and they throw other poison head crabs at you that come off their backs.

Here's my progress on the head. It's 190 tris.

Any C&C is always welcome. Feel free to give me any pointers along the way.

El Z0rR

Update,

190 tris.

El Z0rR

woo I worked out how to get the alpha to work
here's the diffuse so far:

El Z0rR

I've started work on the zombie part now. it's 420 tris. so I'm going to have to lower the headcrab part and call it equipment me thinks.

Armanguy

love the headcrab keep it up!

El Z0rR

thanks!


I posed him a little to see if it looks like a poison zombie, once thats ok, it's making the textures better. MoP can I eat your brains?

Mtg_kirin

the head crab looks a bit big. Also werent the poison ones only in groups on the guys back, then he would throw them at u? the head crab sat on head?

could be wrong havent played in a long time

anyways starting to look really good, keep it up

El Z0rR

Yep, they normally have 3 or so on their backs, but I'll have to do some poly reducing to be able to meet the requirements.

I think it might be a bit big too, though usually the legs hang more limp which makes it look a bit smaller, So I'll fix that up.

I'm thinking of making like 2 lower res ones on his head/back then one in the air like he's throwing it, but like I said I might have to lower the detail in a few places. ATM it'd be 3x 190 tris for the headcrabs and 420 for the zombie part. AHH!! lol

Mtg_kirin

u could probly get rid of some edges on the crabs sides. but other then that it seems like u optimized very well.

El Z0rR

the one on his back counts as a weapon lol


329 for the zombie, 139 for the head head crab, 150 for the back head crab.

still more work to do.

RazorBladder

This piece will turn out awesome if you concentrate on pushing the textures at the pixel level.

Mtg_kirin

wow there bigger then i remember. SO good job. Agree with razor work on textures and it will rock

Xaltar

Doing well, don't be afraid to push the contrast, I find I always start out very timid on the contrasting colors. Then when guys give me a kick in the right direction I start pulling it together. With some serious contrasting reds in there you should be able to come very close to the origional.

Good luck

El Z0rR

Ok here goes, I welded a few random verts and now the zombie with head is 499 and the headcrab on his back is 150.

here's the textures

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It's looking pretty awesome. Smart idea to use one headcrab for the character and the other for the weapon, lol.

El Z0rR

I think I'll leave it as that. I think the 2 main problems are I built the headcrabs 50 or so tris too many (i had to do some welding) and my texturing skillz aren't great. Practice makes perfect etc.