Landwalker

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Hello everyone,

I took an old model and decided to see what I can do with making it better.

its a landwalker concept, did it in zbrush, the quality is medium i guess, probably for mid-shot only but thats ok.

Also I think the way I'm throwing it together might be wrong or there's a better way but ill put down how I wired it up in render tree too.

The thing has 2 uv tiles so every time I load a texture in its gotta be attached to 2 image nodes (one remapped -1 0) and a mix 2 colors node, I tried using texture layers, but i don't get the "exact same" result, I think its since one of the textures blend modes was set to rgb intensity and the texture layer editor doesn't have that, i think the closest equivalent is blend. Now thats just my working with it, so I'm sure there are people who know this inside/out better than I.

Right now im painting masks for some of the maps, aand yeah I think that's all I got for now.

ttyl be good to each other-

as always thanks for the read.

[owei]

Hey! Looks great so far! Would be great to see the hole figure and its design ;) Keep it up!

cheers,
oli

[Draise]

Wow, that is a mean concept. Is it machine or animal!?

[slowdive]

HI guys

Draise-

Originally I wanted to make a walker of my ownwhen HALF LIFE 2 ( anyone remember that game?) came out.

Theirs is a tripod where this is a 2 legged one.

But essentially I wanted it to be hollow frame device ( like bones of a bird)

It is in fact a machine, but people have been saying put a little guy in there,

since they see the little articulator arms ( I guess it humanizes the device a bit)

Owei-

I would like to post a more accurate texture setup but I am having issues with render tree with my test masks
once they go into the mix nodes weight /alpha parameter.
they seem to bypass the base color entirely- and images come out as totally black in frame.
once removed the model renders fine. but i cant mask out anything so all the textures come out with 100% intensity, and no placement control

Ok sorted that it was a problem with the way a tiff was saved

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UPDATE:

Still working on it, got some movement but the model is currently not to scale, trying to fix for real-world scale stuff.

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Some screencaps I found in the project folder

Originally it was just supposed to be a low poly asset, but I think its pretty cool and weird too

Thats how it looks its kind of hard to see the whole thing since its very tall compared to wide.

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I got it rigged, on a low-res

the maps and transfer look pretty good so far.

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Today is scaling walk cycle and fix rig day.

[gaboraa]

Great work! only criticism I could make is that the balance of the creature is a bit off. If I remember correctly, Half life's walker character had three legs to balance the weigh of the character equally. Other that that, looks great, keep up the good work!

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Oh yeah its seriously bordering non-feasible but that's what came out in the concepting phase. I will work on making something more physically accurate next round.

Hi! I think I've been on your blog before!

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Hello again-

some light tests

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Here is a video of the thing, in action.

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Thanks for the read I still have some other shot stuff in store for him

right now i'm just looking for tutorials on ICE

thanks for stopping by. I will check however every now and again. Tell me if its great, tell me if it sucks, tell me if its not green enough I don't care. But I'd like to hear from you.