Well , I've mooched around for a bit , asked a few folks as to what I should do next now that the vanguard outfit has been completed... I really wanted to do a woman's outfit, and asked if anybody had any desires for a MESH woman's ensemble and the feed back was lack lustre if not non existent. So if you would like something considered please let me know, as my meshes take quite a while to do so I dont want to do something that wont be enjoyed.
anyways...........
I've had quite a few requests for a new MESH rarius style outfit, ive looked at whats been done previously, checked out various centurion, legionnaire and Spartan outfits as well as googled a considerable amount of resources and I have came up with a few ideas that will be more authentic, so no masses of red cloth, no large metal armour plate and will be far more blood and sand style than " carry on rarius "
But where am I so far ?
I always like to post pictures of the development work that I do on these things and this is no different
Anyway .. thats it for now ..... keep smiling and I will catch you all on the next post.
Brayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Well this is comming out better and quicker than I had expected, ive done a little bit of detailing so far, but nothing so much on the texture front, still heres the update of its progress......
I thought I would give it a little render and check out the musculature on the chest plate, its going to be leather and not metal, so no need for nipples etc. did the stiching while i was at it and in my opinion its looking rather snazzy
Well capt'n sims died a death and wont be up tonight , so .... this is what ive come to finish with for todays little work.... hope you like and watch this space
I have been asked by various people if i could do a version of the helmet with the plume as it seams tob e a popular option, so today ... ive been doing a few things, I have meshed it out but also did the flexy alpha horse hair plume in SL , i wont show the SL one .. mainly because its not textured yet , but the meshie one is here.....
As always .. i know WIP arnt the most exciting stuff in the world, I have completed the sofa tutorials, so I am planning on doing some clothing ones very very soon. and rather than doing a particular thing ... will just show how to create tops and pants .. possible also skirts and boots.
Bray
This evening has mostly been about sculpting the detail for the damage to the helmet ready for the texturing process, sorting out the feet for the shoes and starting to model the shoes out,
So I hear you say ... what have you done?
Well .... ive done mostly texturing work, and modelled the feet as you can see from the picture above , and this evening I textured those so called feet.
was not a fun experience I can tell you that , but ... after projection painting about 12 different pictures
TADAAAA
I know there doesn't seam to be any updates on this puppy in a few days , well the main reason for that is that I decided to practice my projection painting technique , and it kind of got out of control, so rather than a foot ..... I photosourced a skin and just kinda ran with it, it was quite fun to do and although its not perfect its actually pretty good , considering the original reference was a pasty sun burnt guy with a strange beard. Every picture had different lighting , but I managed to pull it off .... any skin makers out there .. I really respect as the single arm SL avatar is hell to match up
anyway , here are a few pictures of what I did ...... and then I will post an update on the rarius outfit.
The rarius outfit though , is actually moving on OK , I made the cape mostly , and have started the texturing process on that so here is a picture of its current state , I have yet to make a cape broach for it.. but anyway
i would like to say i have something to post ..... but todays been totally shyte, firstly .. somebody hit my car while it was parked, if that wasnt bad enough ... my wacom tablet has bit the dust , so im having to see whats available for the very limited funds that i have available.
Hopefully will be up and running soon.
well....................
after a night of whining to myself about how crappy my day was , i decided to bite the bullet , I tried my tablet on various computers and the same thing happened no matter what i did. So i looked online and decided to get myself a replacement. went to the usual suspects like curries, dixons i checked online for the best prices etc and checked PC World. still completely put out that i would have to get one at all .. i spoke to the Lady Banker about it and she said that as it is important to my work ... i cant exactly go without one, I know many of you other creators may use a mouse etc for drawing , but its like the multiple monitor thing .... when you get used to a pen ... its very hard to go back to a mouse. I had forgotten how expensive wacom tablets were as my grapphire is over 6 years old and is a bit of a workhorse, but was a medium active area which is 21cm x 15cm i was pissed and had resolved myself that i couldn't afford to get a newer bamboo tablet of the same size, so was looking at the lower A6 versions aka .. the bamboo small which at 14xm x 9cm you can imagine my disappointment, but at least it wasn't the very small one at 12 x 8, but the wifey said again " why are you buying something that you ultimately are going to be disappointed with" so i bit the bullet and ordered a wacom bamboo medium special edition which at £109 on special offer hurt like hell. I tried to go to the store , but i guess with the recession you just cant buy things in an ACTUAL store any more, so came home and went ahead with the order online, So anyway....... knowing that i had nothing to lose ... i decided to hack my old tablet ... i had heard that tablets tend to have faulty USB leads after a while , so I took my tablet apart , smashed up an old USB cup warmer and as im a dab hand at fixing crap that would otherwise be fit for the bin ... i swapped the leads over .. and so far it has stayed alive for the last hour with out turning off. Although its too late to cancel my order for the replacement tablet it seams as though I may have rectified the fault on my old one.
so what's the benefit of the new one.?
tablets tend to do pretty much the same no matter what you choose , the main differences are active area , and software , as i dont use the crappy shyte they bundle with it , and you cant opt out of it, the new tablet really only gives you touch ability , as well as the pen .... is it worth the £109 outlay ..... well I guess that depends on wether or not you consider a tool to be worth the outlay ... I didnt want to spend the money , but at least I have a replacement and if my old tablet stays operational I have a spare ..... or indeeed my wife gets to have it for her work as upto yet ... shes always prefered a mouse.
It may be old ... but it worked hard
so is this going to be any good ? hey I dont know .. it better be as I resent spending money on things i dont need, and upgrades for the same functionality makes it a waste.
