I don't understand how that would mess up UV and texturing if all you're doing is detaching faces and reattaching and welding it to another mesh. The only thing that would mess up would be the rig/skin modifier weights.

Actually, I don;t think that will work. There's no feasible way for me to wield it on the body mesh. Is there a way to partially apply the symmetry modifier, soonly some faces get mirrored?

Also, for the torso, it should weight ALL of the body, limbs included, so that way when it tunrs or moves, everything turns with it, right?

me. but its not ready for pics yet, its almost there though

So,why bother asking if you already know he's doing it?

I wonder what did you do with the poor guy in the back.
Edited by Dumb AI on Feb 28, 2013 at 11:01 PM

Well, I detached and attached that portion of the torso from the arm mesh to the body mesh, and the UV unwrap modifier got removed, and after I reloaded the scene, that object now doesn't display the textures on it in the viewport. Still shows up in the render, it seems at first glance.

When importing into 3ds max, checking or unchecking the UV unwrap modifier makes absolutely no difference. Having it checked means that it's there for you to be able to modify the UV of the meshes. Even so, in the end one would either collapse the modifier or delete it entirely.

Baiscally without the modifier it makes no difference. You will have to reassign materials and material groups - that's it.

Hit me up on xfire if you need more help.

Nevermind, I just needed to uncheck display vertex colors or something along those lines in the object prop. menu.

Anyways, I figured out a way to get around all of my issues, so i'm making good progress now.

I just need tips on how to make the knee bend look good, but other than that, I think i'm set. Thanks for all your patience.

Also, an unrelated note: I can't figure out how to rotate the hands or arms of the brute bipeds without the joints twisting into themselves like the end of a twisted/tied balloon.

tried my new computer on open sauce:

It's pretty!

Where have you been?

oh ya know. with dah ladies

super late, but that is because the arm can be readily replaced with the robot permutation, as there is no left robot arm permutation.

Beautiful grunt. Just lovely.

great job chedars, your grunt turned out better than my grunts

Thanks! My rigs messed up though because I rotated the pelvis before rigging

here's my poor neglected grunts, i'm going back to finish them as soon as i'm done with my falcon.

The red and green look a bit saturated, but the orange and white are nice. Also, if you're going for accuracy, Reach's grunt heavies are a greenish brown, rather than a greenish blue.
Reach grunt heavy: http://imagenes.levelup.com/uploads/gallery/pics/gallery_pic_3519_0_30804.jpg

yea they were 30 second slap on shaders, im definately redoing them. i actually havent touched them since the reach extration tools became public
Edited by killzone64 on Mar 10, 2013 at 05:38 PM

anyone know where I can get a student license for max 2009 from the autodesk website? it doesn't show up in my products page, and this does have something to do with bipeds.

why 2009? you cna use 2012 just fine with ce?

certain plugins I've found only work with 2009. some file importers, additional formats, etc

what kind of plugins?, currently compatible with max 2012 there is an animation importer\exporter, model exporter\importer, and an emf importer.

I hope you understand if I say I have to keep it under wraps.

2009 isn't available on there sorry

i use 3ds max 8 and 3ds max 2012 they both work grate i use 2012 for bipeds and i use max 8 for scenery, weapons, vehicles and animations. it works best that way.

yeah just tried. you cant do it with reach :(

Actually, they are iridescent/pearlescent.

For the majors, their body armor is a copper, with greenish specular highlights. Their "starscream" prongs are crimson with copper highlights or vis versa.

Spec ops have a dark maroon with a sagish specular highlights, heavies are sage with a very slight brown specular highlight, minors and ultras don't really have a separate specular color, but they are still pearlsecent. With the ultra, the helmet and backpack may have a slight pinkish specular color.

In max, the easiest way to do this is with the mental ray car paint mat/shader. I can give some specific set ups to simulate each grunt's armor later. All covie metals tend to be pearlsecent/iridescent to a certain degree, so generally, car paint is the way to go.

Anyone here like Tribes Ascend? If so I'm working on rigging and getting some of the Tribes Ascend bipeds ingame for ce.








Edited by klasher1000 on Mar 13, 2013 at 11:40 AM

Looks like a mix of medieval knight armor and Section 8's battle armor.

looks nice, tribes was cool but what i really want to see is the planetside stuff in ce.

still trying to figure out how to rip from it
Edited by killzone64 on Mar 13, 2013 at 08:57 PM

Planetsides models and such are so drab compared to Tribes though, I mean look at that suit of armor up there... then look at the lame spray painted body armor on any of the PS2 factions...

except the Vanu. they have the best sniper/max armor.

The Vanu is slightly more interesting, but even it is still boring compared to tribes.

Since I was having some problems with models I ripped before I have to re-rip and re extract the models, textures etc. So it will take some time for me to get the bipeds ready to be rigged for animation. Also anyone know where I can get a Halo 1 Masterchief animations and rig for a project I'm working on?


EDIT: Problem solved found the old rig I ripped with HEK+ before
Edited by klasher1000 on Mar 15, 2013 at 05:24 PM

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm im terrible at shaders :(



the skins lighter ingame
Edited by Cheddars on Mar 15, 2013 at 07:38 PM