Wow! things seem to be moving along for you nicely. I must regretfully say that I will not be able to contribute after all as something important has come up to eat up my time. I am sorry.
And I need to say that Polaris and Ron, you guys are amazing!!!
looks awesome, i really like the way the shoulder guards curve at the end, nice job, your work will never cease to amaze me 
but i must say, i like the first head you did better, i think thats the model we should go with. not to say that the new one isnāt good, it just looks a bit cheesy. and now that i look at it, the original fits his character really well. when your done, let me give the eyes a shot, cause i cant really think of how to describe them.
please forgive me, but i should have explained a bit more about this guy, this is just the first time ive gotten someone willing to work on this, and i have been working on my models more from memory than my drawings.
the fins on each side of the suit are meant to protect his head from assault from the sides(im sorry if my poor art made it look like antennae), his body is held to the suit by little hooks that latch on to the tentacle like limbs, his fingers come to an almost suction cup end and branch out like tentacles from his arm, and also l would really like to have the metal covers on his forearms.
i reall like your new suit design however, if you add the protective fins and the hooks and arm plates, it will be even more awesome 
just remebered i had done more on this guy than the head, maybe itāll give you a bit of a better idea what i want him to look like.
Polaris30, those guns are amazing, zbrush is such an awesome application. 
thank you for the compliments by the way, but i must say, my work really isnāt very good :o 
the name of the engine im using is NexGen, when its done being writen if you want iāll give you some links so you can check it out if you are interested in using it yourself.
im not completely new to making games, iāve done some work with Reality Factory/Genisis3D for about half a year now, im just now starting to get how to do the modeling and level design though. ive had to put all of my work except for this game on hold though, since ive go other responsibilites too.
i can actually do mechanical things well, its the organic stuff that stumps me. ive been working for months on the main character for this game, and iāve just now finished the uniform, which actually came out surprisingly well. now i just gotta work on his head, which i have to do myself since he is basically me in 3D , but a lot cooler 
Ron Harris, now that i think about it, i really like the way that the Polaran came out. lets stick with what you have there with a few changes:
-use the original head model, i really like that
-add a little connector like thing at the bottom right(left from the front view) corner for him to refil his suit with the gas he breathes.
-add the arm cover things
-leave thr arms and legs the way they are except for the fingers having the suction cup ends and forget the tentacle and hook things
-listen carefully to this one: the area around lights needs to dip in and then the lights need to curve out as kind of a dome, they will be semi transparent glass, with the aid of an HLSL shader made in Render Monkey(iāll handle that later), and they have a colored light inside that alternates in this pattern(which i will also take care of, this is just to give you an idea): blue, fade, green, fade, blue, fade, etc. and the little display thing is a heartbeat measurer that i hope to give an accurate reading based on how scared this guy gets through the aid of Lua scripting. this is the part you need to know: they can be broken, thats right, all of the lights can be broken, so we need something under them
-realized i forgot to mention, the game is called Star Force and the little symbol thing that is on the suit this badguy wears is the symbol for the Alliance, basically itās just a sword through two stars with another star in the background, symbolising the Alliances capitol star system, alpha centauri which has two main stars and a third secondary star.
-thank you for taking the time to do this by the way, you dont know how thankful i am, keep up the awesome work.
thnxā¦and thnx Donnaā¦I will try to work something up before the end of the weekendā¦trying to keep it relatively low polyā¦Monday night latest I should have a little somethinā somethinā cooked upā¦nitey niteā¦
ron
thanks, sounds great 
dont worry too much about polyās though. this guy could probably stand to be between 5,000 and 8,000 polyās at highest LOD, and the normal map of course could be infinite millions :eek:
iāll start working on a basic landscape area to show this guy off in, i plan to post pics of this guy online in several places when your done, i will make sure your name is on them. iāll put some links here so everyone at zbrush can check it out.
sorry GD, been a long weekā¦this is what I have so far with basic remodlingā¦have to add the fins and head and of course smooth things out a bit moreā¦the project of this evening 
lemme know your thoughtsā¦
2 shots with a quick mock upā¦no real detailing yetā¦do you have a . bmp of the little knife emblem on his chest? thnx.
ron
the body is 119000 polys at a subdivision of 5
WOW, it looks just right. you are doing an awesome job.
only thing i would change is to make the hands little bit smaller.
itās been a long week
i completely understand. a lot of times i will set a deadline and say āi have to have this done by this timeā and when the time comes iāll still be staring at my computer saying ātime to start working, time to start workingā 
i told somone a while ago i would make some ready to use animated first person weapons for his game(well for everyone, just basically a resource for the community) and i still havenāt done it. as soon as i finish the demo im working on right now iāll probably start doing them.
heres a .bmp of the knife emblem:
thnx for the emblemā¦that will helpā¦
had a problem overnightā¦lost the modelign I had done above but I had the stage before thatā¦so I thinned its fingers a bitā¦no major thing to get back to the point it was last nightā¦do you want the fingers thinner and shorter than this? And what res of the two do you want? I had a bit of time this afternoon till one of my partners comes by, to work on thisā¦and hopefully some this eveningā¦hope your weekend is off to a good startā¦
ron
looking great!
sorry about your problem, i one time spent about 32 hours of work on a model and lost it and the back-up because i deleted the polyās but not the group, causing milkshape to crash on load. that hurt, but it didnāt take long to get back there.
but anyway, fingers should be about a third that length, and im thinking we oughta forget the leg covers. also would it (if it isnāt too much work) be possible to change the fins to the way they were on the high-res version you lost. that would be great. and the higher-res is probably what you should send me and i can experiment with lowering the polys for in game use.
feet and toes are absolutly perfect by the way. and if you have the original(very first) head model you can use that and forget the mouth. but if not its fine. and i really like that jet black shader you used, lets bake that and use it on the model.
with the skin material applied and bumpmapped this will more than rival Unreal Engine 3.0ās artists work, which is really more than what i was hoping for. thank you.
All sounds kewlā¦just got in a little while ago from a pay per view boxing party at a friends houseā¦Delahoya got knocked out with a body punch to the liverā¦very sadā¦grrrrā¦anyhooā¦just finished putting in a new fan in my power supplyā¦grrrrrrā¦so that put me a little behind this weekendā¦I have a fulll plate of work for Sunday so hopefullly by Sunday eveningā¦Monday the latest I can get back on the model, making the adjustments. Glad you are liking it alright. I havent done a lot of whole figures so this is a great excercise for me. I hope you will have little or no problem using the final product. Thanks for letting me in on the fun. Talk at you laterz
Ron
just got in a little while ago from a pay per view boxing party at a friends houseā¦Delahoya got knocked out with a body punch to the liverā¦very sad.
Ouch, i dont follow boxing(or really any other sport) but i dont have to to know that hurt. Ego and Body. really truth is i dont get boxing, i guess i just dont like sports where people intentionally try to hurt other people.
but anyway, im glad you are enjoying this, having to fix computer problems is a real pain, it took me hours the last time i installed RAM, it is so hard to get it into the right slot on my computer, then i found out that my computer rejected the RAM transplant because it was a different RAM type. so i had to buy more and do it all over again. :lol:
hope things work out well. hope work didnāt throw too much at you sunday, its sunday after all, and seeing your from the south i didnāt think any companies worked on sunday, but one thing to remember about any company is they will grind you down untill theyve squeezed everything they can get out of you until they break you, then they throw you away. :mad: 
but hey, if they give you monday off, then i guess it kinda makes up for it.
but enough of my incessent complaining about the world, talk to you later.
took a slight break from the Polarian and went with the mutant tickā¦(btw I hate sports tooā¦but sometimes you have to humor your closest friends ) I prefer fishingā¦no demanding and no testosterone involvedā¦anyhooā¦here is the mutant tickageā¦
most of that is lighting and materialsā¦cept for the middle oneā¦baked it and thru some quick color to itā¦lemme know yer thoughtsā¦and I will also get back to work on the Polarian this evenign I am sureā¦
btwā¦nothing wrong with venting about the real worldā¦makes cyber life that much more enjoyableā¦
laterz
Ron
(psssstā¦Ronā¦ticks have 8 legs )
You know Lonnieā¦lol I was wondering that after the factā¦snickerā¦being an arachnid and allā¦then my minute brain cell kicked in and said, āHeck heās a mutant, so wth will notice?..ā LOL and of course you were there my Masterā¦ ā¦I will pull out my cyber scotch-tape and fix mr.buggyā¦hell at this point I dont know if this is what GD had in mindā¦laterz tatersā¦and btw lonā¦7pm here and I am onlineā¦where are you
ron
check your PM Ron
the tick looks awesome, it is just what i had in mind.
