Dreamspinner opened this issue on Jun 21, 2001 ยท 18 posts
twillis posted Thu, 21 June 2001 at 11:10 AM
Dreamspinner, I'll email you when I get home tonight. Or you can use tdwillis@earthlink.net, if you want to add that to your address book manually. I haven't done any morphs for the tounge, but I did give it five parts so it could be posed. If you scale parts Tongue 2 through Tongue 5 in the z direction (I'd probably leave the base of the tongue, Tongue1, alone), you can make the tongue stick out. Rotate on the x and y axis to curve it. It has been suggested that since Cring does not have arms, the tongue might be employed in their version of Martial Arts. Which would probably mean their version of Jackie Chan is really, really popular with the ladies. I haven't figured out how to do morphs that involved more than one body part yet, but I'll look into it doing some for the tongue as a whole, and probably the neck as well. I'll have to give some think time to eyelashes, as I'm not sure how they would work with the eyelid morphs. Good suggestion, I'll let you know what I come up with. I also want to do some mouth morphs, as the way it opens seems a bit awkward to me. As far as colors go, I tend to make the females less brightly colored than the males, as is often the case with Earth species. And before you guys get all puffed up about that, keep in mind that the reason that females and juveniles are camoflauged is that they are more essential for the survival of the species, while the guys have to compete for the babes. So there. See, a brightly colored male is more of a target for predators. But bright colors are also an indicator that one is free from parasites, and healthier in general. So a brightly colored dude is a good mating prospect because not only is he healthy, he's managed to avoid being gobbled up by predators in spite of being a big ol' target. (Bright colors can also be an indicator that one taste really bad, or is poisoness, so one could go that way, too). My idea is that developing one's bright colors would be one of the big "coming of age" thigns for teenage male Cring. Also, litst suggested that it's the guys who wear lipstick, on their world. These are just some random thoughts/suggestions. Of course, people can design the textures however they like; I'm just happy people are wanting to use the model. My own textures tend to be on the cartoony side, but I think this guy would work with more "realistic" styles. I think I would look at lizards and fish for ideas. Or octopi... some species actually send signals to each other via color, like some chameleons do. Sorry, didn't mean to ramble on so long. It's just that this is my big 3D "debut" and I'm still pretty excited about it. Everyone has been so nice and encouraging, this has been a real blast. --Terri