Give me a new toy, and a day, and...

[Hyrist]

I'll give you my first ever time rendering a skin.

The first file is the origonal look of Rdm, and the following three are my edits.

This is my first sumission to the Graphical Update Collaberation Project (GUCP?)

My customization of the Hume Male Redmage.

First off, I went with basic logics in my workings here.

Artifact is old... so of course a leather based artifact armor is going to look likea beat up peice of mail... so I went with that idea.

I also went with the idea that Aincent Humes probley wouldent have messed around with shiney brass peices. Steel (polished slightly) was the idea for the replacement color. And you will notice alot more studs in the mail, as Humes do like to reinfoce things. (They come form a tenically inclined country and all)

Anyways thats enough of me defending my peice. Please be brutal, as this will be my first of many submissions. Galka is next!

[Ghostraven]

Re: Give me a new toy, and a day, and...

wow lookin pretty good! Can I get these dats? I want to see how the in-game lighting looks

[Amadaun]

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I've created a monster....>.>

Just kidding. ^^

I really like the thought process, and the details that you put into this. The way you made the white parts of the armor start yellowing, and the tarnished metal, for instance.

I think that you achieved the look that you were going for with the red parts of the armor, but the black needs a bit a work still. Perhaps find a cracked leather texture to copy, or overlay if you're using Photoshop. The joints of the armor would be the most cracked and worn. You could also try adding some scratches to the larger pieces of metal.

Granted, this all depends on the amount of detail you want to put into this.

Overall, quite nice, I think.

[Hyrist]

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I dont want to get too far into the wear and tear of the armor as I would like to still be viable for every day gaming use. (No matter how good it is, if you make the armor look broken down, eventually someone is going to get sick of it.

As far as the detail in the black sections. It always occursed to me that the RDM Af was a mixture of Leather armor and cloth, the black section being cloth like. Which is why I went for the more faded look as opposed to cracked leather. But its a good idea.

I'm more or less satasfied with the peice as is, but I might go back for some tweeking later on. Thanks for the critique Amadaun.

wow lookin pretty good! Can I get these dats? I want to see how the in-game lighting looks

Unfortunatly, this is only the look I made for Hume Male. Elvaan's are going to receive a vastly differnt rendition of the RDM AF, though you might like what I have in mind.

Right now I am looking at the Galka renders of AF and seeing if I can get any ideas for that in...

[Ghostraven]

Re: Give me a new toy, and a day, and...

haha Dam I can't wait, stuff like this breathes new life into this game

[Hyrist]

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Ok, here is my shot at Galka.

I'm not as happy with it as I am with Hume Male. But the Galka's toned down look gives away their Bastokian Miner's Heritage. Choosing this style over a more desert look was mainly decided on cause I came to conclusion that Galkas really wouldent have discovered Red Mage untill they had moved in with the Hume's. Thus the darker tones.

Again, steel replaces gold here, and a much darker red tone, more similar (infact almost exact) to the Monk Relic colors. I fiddeled around a little and decided to add a bit of extra medal to the peice. Swapping in sections of chain to give a more iron feel, while trying to retain its arcane origens.

Some of the actual graphic quality seems off to me, as SE loves to streach its pixels to the limit on Galka, so I have alot of trouble adding in peices. However I am more or less satasfied with the peice, though I am still open to sugestions.

Again, this is my Submission to the GUCP.

[Spazz]

Re: Give me a new toy, and a day, and...

looks good. But on the galka it looks extremely stretched.

[Hyrist]

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I'm still trying to work with that. It seems that SE loves to streach skins... alot... especially with galka. I could use some tips on how to keep quality on it while still having my edits shine though.

[Tygleris]

Re: Give me a new toy, and a day, and...

Heh, that seems alot better from what you showed me last night. Maybe just the hat color was what was throwing the outfit. Nice job again man.

[Seldzar]

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Doesn't seem that bad to me, the only bit I think you should work on or take out are the chain things going across the front on the black part as they seem to be (to me at least) whats giving it the stretched look.

[Hyrist]

Re: Give me a new toy, and a day, and...

Hume Female is done, and I went a little extreem.


Turned the blue all glowy, and transformed a War Aketon the close as I could get into a RDM AF Body. You can see here that it is quite darkened out, with bright blue highliths, almost as if the 'runes' are glowing.

I edited the Nin Pants to provide some complete coverage here, I'll probley work on a hotpants mod on this set later though, to please the fanboys out there.

Per request of a friend, I decided to use a completly differnt boot set too, using the beetle/shell boots as a base.

No model alteration on this, just skin edits.

Thre is one noticable glich in model viewer, in which the side of the aketon doesnt shift for the leg, as seen in the third picture.


The .Dat Files for this and all otheres will be realaced once the full AF set is done for all races. I will hand them over to DevilFox (If he will take them) To add to his collection.

Mithra is up next!

[Sammonoske]

Re: Give me a new toy, and a day, and...

Gj, looking good there!