Blademaster Chainmail

[HappyTauren]

heh, just random thing i made in 5 minutes... what are your opinions...?
*not finished*

 

[Kimbo]

looks .. kinda blury..and can you show the unwrap?

 

[HappyTauren]

yeah, and update

 

[Kimbo]

hmm..not bad actually, looks like scales, would really rock as scales for like a dragon or something, although it doesnt look to good on an orc. But i really like the pattern.

 

[HappyTauren]

heh, it's brush in gimp. create one with 90 hardness, size 8,6,4,2 with darkest grey, dark grey, light grey, lighest grey, and place first the biggest one with darkest color, then lighter and smaller... that aint hard to do at all if you have brain (that's my friend' advice since i have no brain)

 

[Kimbo]

i dont use gimp.. i dont like the mac sorta interface. But its good if you have nothing. I use gimp to alpha since psp10 gives a white alpha(makes alpha on models eg, Teamcolour red look pink) while gimp gives a black making it look really nice like it should be.

 

[HappyTauren]

well, i have photoshop too, but i cant bother with milions of plugins and commands... and is too complex for me (for now)

 

[camel's_hump]

It needs more contrast, and I advise against making chain mail for all of his armor because it is not noticable ingame and will look like a blob.

 

[Rui]

Hmm, well, it is a little too light actually, and maybe blurry as Wulfy said. But it looks horrible on feet, I think you should leave his feet as they were.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

you should learn to keep the form of the original skin, but still make your own paterns and stuff. The skin has little variation.

 

[Crin]

first of all if you were trying to make chain why in the world are the links so large.
Chain mail, is extremely hard to skin because of all the intricate metal rings. My best advice for help with chain mail is to look at some in real life.

Now, when you are placing clothing and or armor over the skin its usually best to shade around the areas that don't cover skin to make it look like it is actually above the skin, and not part of the skin.

You need to work on your shading as well, because from what i see there is none. Look at how light effects the way things look. is everything you wear always flat and shapeless. You need to shade the details too the models shape otherwise it looks bad unless you know exactly what you are doing.

Keep up the skinning!

 

[camel's_hump]

I think he means scale mail. Skinning scale mail or chain mail is pretty much a waste of time because none of the detail is noticed ingame unless you can get them to a high enough detail and contrast level which is fairly hard to achieve. Since you are new to skinning I suggest you start out with plate mail, or something of that variety.

 

[Crin]

I actually agree with Camel's Hump on this. Chain mail is almost pointless to do in wc3 do to the fine detail it requires. However it looks good if used in small amounts as trim for somethings. such as the trim of a chest plate or the trim of a glove. or say the trim on the back of a helmet would look nice as well. but for the bulk when used to make an entire tunic of chain and such the unit will usually look like a ball of gray matter.