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I've got a lot to say here, so I'll just copy what I posted in the VRS forum and Badkittys:
Brace for it, this is gonna be a long post... *takes a deep breath*
Made every one of these myself, though they seem to have bunched up, so I've got a few to post all at once. Also, all of these are mithra onry, with what I know transfering these between races would be just about as complicated as creating them again from scratch
Wings of Selh'Teus. I pulled the wings directly from the NPC. They're a bit big for normal use, and I can't get rid of that red glow, but then, I'm not all that sure I want to. This is head-equipable just like the corsage or tail ribbon. http://www.benway.com/vagrants/dats/wings.jpg
And finally, a mithra Garuda. I ported the avatar over into equipable files. I've got a lot to say here, so I'll just copy over my post from Badkittys:
She blinks, she sings, she walks, she sits, she tears crap up. Not many problems with it either. As mentioned above, there's some minor clipping with weapons. I had to mess with those chicken legs for a few hours to get the bone weights right. Now they nicely fold in so it almost looks natural. It's not perfect, granted, but without another bone there, it's probably the best that can be done. Especially considering after I tried my initial plan for those legs, that back "knee" went clear up through the upper leg when sitting.
There was only one other problem I ran across, and I couldn't for the life of me fix it. The orignial Garuda never walked, her feet never touched the ground. This caused a problem because us as players do walk on the ground, and in doing so, our feet make sounds when we step. Garuda doesn't have ANY sound effect attatched to her walking or stepping. It isn't just quiet, though. Every step errors out and produces an annoying ping sound. I tried to get rid of it, but in doing so, the texture on the feet was fudged up on an unfixable scale. It looks fine in the viewer, but not in-game. It's just the texture though, and it's not *that* bad, so I included both files in the zip. Outside of remaking those feet from scratch, I can't fix it, and to be honest, I don't care enough to devote another week to it just to fix this. I seriously tried everything I could, I can't fix it. >.>
I think I know why there's a ping there but not when singing. (since we all know Garuda never sang either.) Garuda does make vocal sounds, like sighs and such when getting hit, or attacking, etc. As a result, the "head" has a sound "file" with it. When you sing, it finds this "file", but can't find the sound, so doesn't play anything. However, there isn't even a "file" attatched to the feet, so it just errors out, producing that ping. http://www.benway.com/vagrants/other/sound.png
Nakate, that Garuda dat was enough to make me stop lurking and actually post because I'm so amazed. I played around with it in model viewer and it actually works really well. O_O Near perfect infact!
I ignored the hand/weapon issue because I didnt use the .dat for hands. I just put on war gloves instead, which matched really well.
You should be proud! That seems like THE most advanced DAT I've seen to date! I only hope you continue your great work. *psst, do Shiva! Or a Garuda version without the wings* >_>
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