Question And A Wip

LancerEvoX

First the question: Is it possible to create a marine where a head and the body are randomly chosen for the player. My example would be the paratroopers in DoD where the player would get a randomized looking soldier. I was wonder if this was possible. I might look into converting all of the AvP2 models into one marine build that way. Maybe... I'm not that skilled though lol. 2nd one: Anyone know how to convert dtx textures to bmp?

Second: I was just messing around by making my own hacked marine, and this is what I came up with. Nothing special, since it uses mainly the AvP2 Sadar marine. Biggest issue I have right now is skinning. I suck at skinning. If anyone would like to give this guy a skin, PM me. Ill work on it if anyone is interested.

1219am

Is that what you have now? If it is, i love it!, i was just loking for something like that!!!

LancerEvoX

so far... i still need to assign teh vertices, and fix the gasmask tube... its jsut there. btw teh eyes will be a transparent blue lol. (that screenie is an old one, its a Jin Roh mask btw)

<img src='http://www.geocities.com/lancerknightx/Screenie.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

Mr_Headcrab

Randomization's coded in, If flay ever decided to implement somthing like that (already in a limited form in the Marine skin colors) it would be really cool (Although the Desert Crisis (HL) total customizible system would be more fun in my opinion)

LancerEvoX

ok that screen didnt work <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->. But yea, c'mon flay add randomization or some form of customization.

1219am

Can i just have it now? PM me if i can <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

Dillinja

holy hell i need this head for my HA please

2Dd

Amazing. Simply amazing.

Fox_One

Oh man that is sexy!

Obst

You can have two different skins, but no different models. Only JP may be different, but this isn't random, but equipment dependant.

Maus

You can get two different head meshes by using the code for black and white player models, at the cost of the additional polys of a second head.

Obst

Ehm? Black and white colours are skinned on, not done via models.


<!--c1--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->$bodygroup "marine"
{
studio "marine_ref"
studio "marine_jetpack"
}


// 2 skin families
$texturegroup skinfamilies
{
{ "Marine_final.bmp" }
{ "Marine_black_01.bmp" }
}<!--c2--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->

Just skin changing, nothing with submodels. Or is it just not used in there? But I had tried several other combinations of subgrouping, like

<!--c1--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->$bodygroup jp
{
blank
studio "jp"
}

$body studio "marine_ref"
<!--c2--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->

And it workded like normal, just changes for JP, so I really doubt there is a model for the black head ^^
Please correct me if I'm wrong <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Maus

Well, a person has to keep his "secrets" secret, but it's possible to have different head meshes. Just think outside the box a little.

/me feels unclean for saying "think outside the box"

Obst

You mean a smaler head hidden inside another texture of the other skin? Then this is exchanged with a trasparent texture so the head inside is revealed?

Kaine

what you can do is make the texture groups assign a totally transparent texture to one head, and a skin to the other, then when the texture groups are reversed, so are the skins (except you would have a different skin for each head, but the transparent one would be shared, even though its only on one head at a time)

see?

Maus

You're halfway there, but forget the "smaller head inside another head" part. Just have two normal-size heads on the model, and have it with a skinfamily such that when one is visible, the other is totally transparent, and vice versa.

So, with that "secret" revealed how about we move on to having models looking different dependant on which weapon they're carrying. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Dillinja

that would be strange

so when i pic up a hmg i look like rambo and when i drop it i look like ...whatever...

Obst

That's what I said ^^ [somehow] *slaps himself*

LancerEvoX

ok i dont get qc scripting lol. but yea thanks anyways. i'll just assign the vertices and release as is for a light marine. i'll let teh community do anything they want with it.

Dark_Soul

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omai, great touch on the transparent thingies, you can even see the eyes !

Anywayz, knowing that this is a hackjob, makes it lose a little bit of my excitement ... a little bit <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->