'OK, whats all this with 'wirez'' you ask?

Right, lets briefly explain. Project Wirez began following some enquiries about a 3D wire structure in one of my gallery images (no link cus, everyone had the chance to see it it when it was posted!). So thinking that the file size of just the depicted head conversion would really scare a Runtime Directory things seemed a little 'out of the question' for a full length humanoid figure.

Never one to give up that easily, I've had a mess with some low res figures and got the .OBJ file size down from around 800MB to 20MB.

Even at this early stage I'm optimistic that a usable, free, 3D wire full humanoid figure of between 10MB and 15MB could be achieved. Still sounds large but add up the MB's of one of your favourite figures with clothes and hair and then compare.

I doubt the structure will pose like the usual figure but I'm hopeful limited movement will be OK without much problem to the tubular based structure.

It's early days but I would love this to be my Christmas gift to the 3D Community.

But why post so early? That's easy - without sufficient interest I may not continue at pace with this free gift and sometome in 2005 would be more likey. I'm at the "is there likely to be much interest stage" after raising this in the copyright forum.

Free Wirez is on its way!

Please have a look at the example image and either express your interest (or not!) here in this post or use the IM service.

As always, Best Wishes.

Message edited on: 08/21/2004 18:22

sounds good to me..if you want support, don't hesitate to stop by the modeling forum..;)

It does sound good to me, too.

I see visions of him walking around with many tiny people inside screaming to get out...or screaming for their daily rations of bread and water. Looks cool!

Good for sice fiction.

looks good to me,

Looks good. But wouldn't a simple transmap with the UVtemplate give the same effect? (can't try it right now as I'm in the middle of a looong animation-render, but...)

Here is victoria 1 with ernyoka1`s idea applied. The eyes look wrong because they have so many parts that they look solid, but that should be easy to fix. I made the tongue and the teeth totally transparent (invisible) so that the mouth looks right. The ears look solid because the map has a lot of small lines in that area, but that could be made to work, too.

I forgot the nudity tag.

I have reported this thread as a violation of the TOS here.

Oh wait, did you say Free Wirez? Okay, nevermind. ^_~@Becco