request for uber chocobo!

[Kazuki]

Re: request for uber chocobo!

Very nice work. But the head and the body pieces should match each other more.

[dabadking]

Re: request for uber chocobo!

maybe could look similar to one of these? I like how the chocobo only has the armor on his upper part of the face ..it doesnt cover the beak (sorry for the horrible pics but i just googled the FFXII chocobos). not sure what the more colorfull choco pic s from

[Gokage]

Re: request for uber chocobo!

That's what i'm talkin about XD. I'm just learning how to do this stuff. Hopefully I'll get good ^^

[Jei]

Re: request for uber chocobo!

maybe could look similar to one of these? I like how the chocobo only has the armor on his upper part of the face ..it doesnt cover the beak (sorry for the horrible pics but i just googled the FFXII chocobos). not sure what the more colorfull choco pic s from

do you have a clearer image of the left one? looks cool. wanna see it more clearly

[Korith]

Re: request for uber chocobo!

Its a little washed out, but this is one of the images I look at when deciding how I was going to do this. Its not the same scene, but its quite similar. (dabadking - the colorful image you put up is from FFX).
Link since its rather large.

Update on Progress:
The production of this has come to a screeching hault. Was getting near completion and decided to see how it acutally behaved in FFXI. Well, it didn't work. The image on the armor is all screwed up. I'm seeing if there is anything I can do to remedy this, but its not looking hopeful.

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Success!
HAHAHA! After spending close to an hour working on this I finally had success in getting the image to display correctly. Unfortunately, the Alpha layers aren't doing their job when viewed ingame, but its better than the helmet being chocobo colored. Yay!

[dabadking]

Re: request for uber chocobo!

how is the image messed up? maybe if you had a pic, someone may know how to fix it. I'm assuming the skeleton didnt match up?..or is it just the textures itself?

[Korith]

Re: request for uber chocobo!

I've seen people run into this issue numerous times, and nobody has ever been able to help them. But since you wanted a picture of it:


(and like I said in my last post, I've fixed this. Now just the alpha mapping is broken)

[dabadking]

Re: request for uber chocobo!

sweet! glad you fixed that issue..... if you cant get the alpha mapping to work, you can always make the armor go just above the eye instead of around it.... just an idea because I want to see this released, and not just get scrapped because the alphas wont work....also I'm not too familiar with VRS (just starting to learn finally) but maybe instead of alpha(if you cant egt them to work) maybe cut out eye holes using VRS or something similar to that method?

[PotentPotables]

Re: request for uber chocobo!

Most likely the reason it's not converting the Alpha properly is because the Armor texture you imported over has a reflective material attached to it. Reflective Materials don't Alpha, like shields and stuff.

If you're familiar with VRS, you can attach a new Non-reflective Material to the Model and delete the old one. this should fix ur problem.

[Korith]

Re: request for uber chocobo!

No need to fear, I intend to finish this. Even better, I figured out why the alpha mapping doesn't work. I made the armor shiney, so it reflects in the light. Unfortunately, shiney things in this game cannot have any alpha mapping. So, either I remove its reflective nauture to allow alpha mapping or I manually go in and edit ever little spot.
Edit: Just as PotentPotables posted as I was typing this =P

I have a feeling I'll just remove the shineyness. Making the eye hole in the head, along with the fancy designs on the edges would require adding alot of vertices. It would also take forever. Also, I doubt anyone would really care that much if it isn't very reflective.

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I went in and removed the material to allow the alpha layers to work. I also tried to get the shades on the armor to be the same. Tell me what you think, if nobody has anything else to say about it I'll release it later today.


In game:

The lighting is kinda weird on the body armor, I have no idea how to remedy that.

(And maybe, if we're really lucky, someone like Amadaun will come fix up my shitty skinning job. I tried, I really did, I just suck at skinning.)

[dabadking]

Re: request for uber chocobo!

heheh, I was planning on doing a bit of skinning on it as well just to see how it would look, so yeah no worries on the skin much ^^ it looks good, I like it!

[OG Night]

Re: request for uber chocobo!

looks awesome

[Korith]

Re: request for uber chocobo!

Well, since nobody has given any objections to my shitty skinning job, I'll post it. If you reskin it, please post it here so the rest of us can check it out .

[Kittyneko]

Re: request for uber chocobo!

Great job, really. But why are you finished already? Leg armor.. come on! We wanna see more. ^^ I'm also sure you can edit it so that the handle where the character holds itself on to, can be changed to a sort of chain attached to the headgear. I'd really like to see you, or someone else skilled to progress this further.

[Korith]

Re: request for uber chocobo!

I considered adding the reigns, but I'm not sure how possible it would be to do that, without it looking horrible with some animations. As for leg armor... hmm... mostly forgot about, and kinda ran outa steam. I'll see if I can find some time to get leg armor done tonight.