Original Khaara "models"

NeptalidNeptalid Join Date: 2003-01-06 Member: 11951Members
in NS Customization
I don't know if this is just me, but after having looked at the skins for the Khaara awhile back I got the feeling that they were scanned. Something about them reminds me of plasticene models, I'm not sure if thats the word I'm looking for. Maybe one of the devs could clear this up for me. I wouldn't find that level of professionalism too surprising <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • VecdranVecdran Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2323Members
    They were made from scratch...
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  • JimJim Join Date: 2002-11-26 Member: 9989Members
    hmm...I think he means did they make the models in plasticine first, then scanned those models to create the skins for the models <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • NeptalidNeptalid Join Date: 2003-01-06 Member: 11951Members
    Jim, thats exactly what I meant. I know that a lot of commercial games have done this. There's speculation that the original Doom sprites were scanned from "puppets" with posable metal skeletons.
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  • VecdranVecdran Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2323Members
    OO. Excuse me.
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  • NeptalidNeptalid Join Date: 2003-01-06 Member: 11951Members
    Thats still technically making them from scratch, it's just a different process. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • MausMaus Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5599Members
    I think it's more likely they were just made from sketches (front and side projections) traced in a 3D proggy.
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  • RoadMasterRoadMaster Join Date: 2002-06-01 Member: 718Members
    <a href='http://members.rogers.com/roadm/images/claybob5.jpg' target='_blank'>http://members.rogers.com/roadm/images/claybob5.jpg</a> <--- omg ahh!!!

    ... sorry, I couldn't resist. No the skins I don't think were made from real models, considering how the skinmesh was laid out I'd highly doubt it actually... you can get a lot of detail in without such things.
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  • NeptalidNeptalid Join Date: 2003-01-06 Member: 11951Members
    W0\/\/ t3h |30|3z0R!!11 Its not the detail level so much as this feeling the texture is a 3d object and i feel like there are tool marks on the lines, as if they were sculpted. Then again, if I'm really attentive for signs of human activity I think I hear water call my name......
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  • SurgeSurge asda4a3sklflkgh Join Date: 2002-07-14 Member: 944Members
    **** Roadmaster, enough shameless advertising!
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  • def_onedef_one Join Date: 2002-05-21 Member: 641Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    nah, they were all made in max by hand, then textured by hand by mr. strader
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  • CookieCookie Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6817Banned, Constellation
    hmm roadmasters pic of a skulk is dofferent from the ingamemodel of a skulk coz the shouldders are enormous on the plastercine model
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