what’s the update anyways? How’s it coming along. Can’t wait to see it. Even just what you already have. I want to see it running in game.
Heres a quick update. Work has been keeping me busy this week, but I am finding free time.
I have just about gotten the animations out. They are Havok, so im working out the compression an mapping. As soon as I get that worked out, Im going to get them applied to my Orchid (and a few other models Im doing) so that I can make sure the rigs are all clean and the skinning is good. I’ll put up some videos of that as soon as I get a few ready. I have bound my retro Orchid to the rig from the one in game, and it should work really well, but we’ll see. I will also put up some videos of some other random changes in the game.
But we’ll know soon if they will run cleanly in the game with the existing data.
Really just trying to finish putting all the pieces back together now, and finishing up some models to use. As soon as I get it all up and going, I’ll make a big knowledge and resource dump somewhere other than here so that everyone else can use it all.
Also, I have been stuck in a conference call for the past 2 hours that I have no reason to be in, so I have been quick 3d sketching an Eyedol to pass them time today lol. We are going to run him through our 3d printer tonight and see what happens. Going to make him into a badass statue. I’ll probably do his textures and finish him out, but hes not too bad so far for 2 hours and lunch break, just needs his ■■■■ horse legs and clean up. Also looking forward to retroing Gargos.
Eyedol Early 3d sketches from today (just playing around while I halfway pay attention to the phone, so dont judge too harshly lol):
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It might be a Xbone performance thing. If you mess with the models it might affect framerate, which totally isn’t worth it.
They can release it for PC only as an option, but I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
You did this in 2 hours? Man… I wish I knew 3d modelling. You are amazing.
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Yo, In before Conan Tusk, modeled just like Arnold…
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Dont forget about He-Man Tusk!!
Yes, it’s impressive how quickly Beterthnyu is able to work with what so little time he has.
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I honestly can’t wait until becomes Orchid available for Source Filmmaker and XNALara. She’s quite the hottie, retro or not.
Orchid is not only the most popular female character in the game, but she’s also one of the most popular characters entirely. Clearly, her designers did something right.
Orchid has huge breasts in this game like mega massive but her face is terrible. Now Maya looks stunning great face but flat breasts. You win and lose with both IG and DH.
This is where modding comes in.
Let me guess, do the stages, Assassin’s Cave, Forgotten Grotto, The Pinnacle, and Arena of Judgement, have models of the background characters? Maybe we could see the white colored assassins in place of Sadira, the war golems in place of Aganos, The Pinnacle Fulgores in place of Fulgore, and the red and blue Elites in place of Arbiter as character mods.
Yes,it helps that she’s sexy, but there is more to it than that. Aside from her face, just about everything about Orchid is well done. She’s modeled well, her gameplay is simple yet deep and not as monotonous as Maya’s incessant tossing of daggers, and she animates very well and looks great in motion.
Orchid simply has it all, though her in-game face, retro and accessories could be better.
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After watching the model for so long, I came to think that Orchid’s problem is not the face, it’s simply the mouth.
Orchid’s mouth line points downwards, combined with the flat lips it makes her face look weird
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Her model extracted from the game proves this:
mouth goes down, giving her a weird look (although I understand this may be done to make her look like 1994 Orchid in fear of purists saying “that looks nothing like Orchid!”
As we can see, Orchid smiling fixes her bad mouth problem
and here…rawr…so nice.
Also, as we can see here, her original model did not have this problem. So the intent was to always make her beautiful.
And the hair. Please fix the hair lol.
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Thank you!
wow man thanks for all your work. You are obviously going above and beyond the more simple clothing and skin tone remapping the fighting game mod community is used to seeing. I am soo looking forward to the knowledge dump. Putting the work into modding my favorite games is as fun as playing them for me. And since they gimped Kim Wu I need something else to do with my KI files, lol
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Orchid’s default would be near faultless if someone could make her face and hair look exactly like this in-game…
http://www.gamedeus.ru/images/games/K/killer-instinct/killer-instinct-art-05.JPG
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Yeah. I’m surprised that nobody at IG has worked on this. Modders could get this done in 2 days.