Ok the armour is packaged in alpha mode .. once Logan's fury gets my morphs made i'll rebuild the cr2's to include the morphs (i hope it works) and then repackage and set up for downloads in the freebies section.

lol i have all 3 and an msn account .. but i use the icq one mainly..

well my friend what i'm hoping for is some one to go thru and find the poke thrus, build magnet morps for them, then load the morps and resave the cr2's with the morphs loaded and set to a default of 1.000

can it be done? will it work?

The poke thrus i've found so far are both thighs poke thru the hip guards (fix the hip guards), the belt is interfering with the straps for the hip guards (fix the straps), and theres problems with the chest piece on the sides of the brests (could be fixed by shrinking the brests on posette ... but may want to fix it any how) and at the bottom of the chespiece where posette pokes thru the chest piece (very minor, not even seen unless you close up on the hips at just the right angle)
once i clean up the cr2's i'll pack it all up and pm you a download link. but right now i'm waiting for my phone interview with Charter communications.

Message edited on: 04/04/2005 12:32

Ok looks like we're down to building cr2's. Actually we're almost done building the cr2's i need to do the forearms and the scale boots and shin guards. I should be able to copy the other boots cr2 and just change what modle it loads. After that i have a LOT of clean up to do on the cr2's .. and i may have to get Logan to work some more of his magnet magik to fix some pokethru issues. most notable is where the thigh guards poke thru the hanging hip guards ... it doesn't do that in the obj!!!! grumbles

for anyone who might actually still be following this thread, modling, scaling, and grouping are done ... now to uvmap and make cr2's and a pp2 for the gorget and it'll be finnished!

ok work on this project has hit a major slowdown .. the main reason is because i'm in the scaling and grouping phase... I HATE grouping ... i HATE IT!!! i can't get my head to understand grouping in uvmapper, cutting the mesh in rhino leves nasty seams .. soo.... i do my grouping in the poser grouping tool which i think i have learned to master. scaling is done ... It almost wasn't because of major issues with the armour not fitting on poset even though it fit on her in rhino... poser does some freaky stuff ... however thanks to Logan'sfury i went and figured out magnets enough to fix the collision issues, rexported out of poser and imported in perfect. so work continues... trudging along slowly... i have a phone interview with charter communications monday .. another company that doesn't wanna pay me jack .. but at least this one is literally 7 minutes from the house unlike that one in dallas. who knows.

very nice, i've just barely scratched learning magnets, kinda figured out on my own how to use them to fix some pokethru issues with the armour i'm currently building but what you've done is way beyond me :)

Actually,

the pauldrons (shoulder pieces) are held in place by the arm straps, the straps connecting to the center ring in the front and back are really no more than added protection against a pauldron slipping down a little on the upper arm and geting into an uncomfortable position. There is a matching set of straps in back that serve the same purpose. so if the front strap is severed, the pauldron is still supported by the back strap. Wost case the plate right over the shoulder would flap up (i've had a shoulder rivet pop in a fight before it's annoying but not majorly debilitating.).. and in batle minor armour malfunctions like this happened from time to time.

The thigh pads are similarly strapped in place like the shin guards, and fore arms are. If you are talking about the side hip guards that hang on the outside of the legs, then yeah if you cut a strap it would fall from the front but there is a similar set of straps in back so it wouldn't fall off..

I had similar hip protection on my armour and lost a rivet and it did pretty much the same thing ... the thigh guard falls in front but still not an opening for a seriously fatal blow.

If you want to go for historical accuracy remember most swords of the time wern't even sharp enough to behead someone in a single chop it often took 2 to 5 chops sometimes more. (this is why the guillotine was invented as a "humane" method of beheading). If the sword isn't capable of going thru the flesh of the neck and separate the thin bones of the spinal column, there's no way it would realistically cleave thru the thick of ones leg and the much thicker and solid thigh bone.

technically if i were making this armour in real life, I would put a strap at the top of the front and back rings that would hold them in place on the chest piece and provide balance for the other pieces should one be severed. But since i'm going to do the pauldrons and hip guards (and connecting straps and rings) as a seperate conforming figure from the curiass (chest piece) i felt it better to leave it off for asthetics and to fend off collision issues or straps floating in the mid air in poser.

Message edited on: 03/26/2005 01:18

Well i don't know how it went ... i don't feel that it went wonderfully .. but then again .. i never do. I so hate interviews. He said he'd be done interviewing in about two weeks.

lol thanks Carolly, i needed that... well folks i have a job interview today ... they don't want to pay me enough .. but it's better than nothing so wish me luck :)

Sorry folks .. as much as i'd like to do the gloves it's not looking like it's gonna happen. I can't find any tutorials on making gloves. I have a ... prototype in the works... but the way i'm having to do it is causing all sorts of really badly creased seams and looks horrible... on top of that i can't find a way to cap off the fingers that desn't come out all pointy and amazingly horrid. :(

Grrrrr.... Serious flaw too my thought pattern here :( the p4 fem catsuit has those stretchy bits between the brests .... and no brest morphs ... however i can turn off the upper parts of the catsuit to make it look like leather pants... muahahahaha! and it works too ... the parts i turn off visibility on stay invisible .. yes i am rambling here just to keep track of my thought patterns.. i'll forget come morning.