Forum: MarketPlace Showcase

Subject: The State-of-the-art Assassin Droid's about to roll off the assembly line.

_dodger opened this issue on Feb 10, 2003 · 22 posts

_dodger posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 10:41 AM

I have packaging, fixing up the PNG/RSRs, writing up the README, testing, and submitting. Package to include:

Figure
2 Textures, 1 multi-file Bumpmap
8 MAT Poses
12 SETTING poses to set limits on and off by body section
(I think this is a new idea, BTW)
2 REFLECTION MAT Poses (sets only the reflection map used)
21 Hand Poses
17 Body Poses
Figure includes Morph Dial for fading out the ambient light in the face

_dodger posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 10:42 AM

MATS and stuff

_dodger posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 10:45 AM

Annnd... Poses! These are custom-made poses designed to resemble many of the common ones you get with other figures. (Due to the not-so-human body structure, figure does not work well with very many poses designed for other characters, so I have included several Same with the hands but I only get three pics for the marketplace and that's what these pics will be.) As a note, except for compositing and the drawing, none of the images I've posted in this thread contain any postwork whatsoever.

_dodger posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 10:46 AM

All this expessiveness -- without a face!

Disciple3d posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 11:17 AM

neat

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MachineClaw posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 11:49 AM

Sexy Bot!? haha, your killin me man! Damn fine work, you've come up with a real winner there.

Crescent posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 1:03 PM

Credit card is standing by. ;-) Oh, some of those poses are just freakin' hilarious!

jaybutton posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 2:05 PM

Very, very cool. Can't wait to get it. :) Jay

dragongirl posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 2:33 PM

"Air Guitar" !!! LOL! Great pose set! Terrific model! :-)

lalverson posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 5:00 PM

WHEN!!!!now!!!! gimme gimmee..GIMMEEE!!!!PLEASE!!!!!testers get this in the store now!!!!!!!

DangerKitty posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 5:54 PM

Great work, dodger, can't wait until he's available.

Little_Dragon posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 10:23 PM

I like the Scud "Heartbreaker" texture. :) Even though your droid doesn't look much like Scud (other than the spindly legs), it somehow reminded me of him, from the moment I saw the conceptual drawing.

spratman posted Tue, 11 February 2003 at 9:02 AM

Ahhhhh! This so cool! The perfect anime enemy, hope ya don't mind if I line 'em and fire away. LOL!... it's on my wish list.

Gazukull posted Tue, 11 February 2003 at 5:48 PM

I am so going to buy this.

MachineClaw posted Tue, 11 February 2003 at 5:52 PM

I hope the addon pack doesn't take too long. really want that left hand. haha, bot ain't available yet, and I'm compalinin' sheesh! goes to the back of the line with his CC in his left hand, and waits

_dodger posted Wed, 12 February 2003 at 12:20 PM

It's been submitted B^)

MachineClaw posted Wed, 12 February 2003 at 12:42 PM

does the Snoopy Dance

_dodger posted Wed, 12 February 2003 at 2:55 PM

This image was rendered in Max frmo an OBJ export of JICC in the included Dodge pose using raytraced materials. While I cannot guaranty it, as I do not have the programs, I'd imagine people who render in Vue, P5 Firefly, and Bryce could get similar results. I had to plug in the shoulder inside texture as a shoulder inside reflection map and use the PPP bumpmaps (of course) for all of these, and I had a little work setting up modifications of the Max standard raytrace library materials used to match up, but it only took about 10 minutes to set up all the materials for this and about 5 to render it.

_dodger posted Wed, 12 February 2003 at 3:08 PM

All the required bits of a good droid are there in this figure, as defined by the Corellian Android Manufacturer's Guidelines:

Joints that make sense
Hydraulics that you're not sure what they do but they look cool
Humanoid shape
Built-in weaponry
Humanoid hands despite the fact that there are better manipulation designs possible with non-organic devices
Things that look like exhaust pipes (in the head assembly)
exposed parts so you can see greeblies
lit funtion and power indicators despite the fact that the robot could simply query the devices internally
vague resemblance to a household appliance*

B^) * For reference, R2-D2 looked a bit like either a rubbish bin with a fliptop lid or a shop-vac, V.I.N.CENT, ahead of his time, a bit like a modern CD boom box, the Gonk Droid like an air conditioner, C-3P0 had what now appears to have been a CD player in his midsection, and Robbie the Robot, of course, resembled a jukebox.

_dodger posted Wed, 12 February 2003 at 3:10 PM

Oh, yeah -- JICC here, well, his chest sort of vaguely resembles a fancy designer bidet, while his right forearm is a bit like a toaster and his left like a half-disassembled portable television set. His shins are reminiscent of coffee grinders.

GraphicFoxx posted Wed, 12 February 2003 at 4:51 PM

"...his right forearm is a bit like a toaster..." Actually, put a few holey grooves in there, and it's a stand up cheese-grater! So with this coming out soon, is your 'jedi' nearly ready as well? Very cool work though man. I'll definitely be buying JICC as soon as he's released :)

_dodger posted Wed, 12 February 2003 at 6:52 PM

The Space Knight set is on hiatus, pending a redesign of the mesh because the old one just wasn't doing what I wanted it to. I don;t know how soon I will be able to get back to it.