Dark Enchanted Book

[Moderator]

12:38, 30th Mar 2013
Deolrin: While the idea is interesting, the model is not very well made. The mesh is terrible and the texture is far too low resolution. It could use some additional details. The animations are not too fluid, either, and you may want to include a "Morph" and "Stand Alternate" animation where the book is motionless.

16:33, 5th Jun 2013
Deolrin: The animations are still not fluid enough, and some are wrong. For one, "Morph" is a looping animation(it shouldn't be), and the model sinks into the ground during "Death" and the alternate animations.
Also, the mesh and textures are still pretty bad. There's no teamcolor, either, which might be a problem.

 

[bisnar13]

Yeahhh, 2nd unit model! *Subscribes*

 

[eubz]

Nice model but the texture used seems blurry.

 

[bisnar13]

Well, its kinda small in-game, so, it won't be important/noticeable.

 

[Greenwhy]

the blurryness isn't a problem at all but I wish that you faced the pages upward so we could see the detail... sort of like in the pic at the top of this page.

 

[bisnar13]

the blurryness isn't a problem at all but I wish that you faced the pages upward so we could see the detail... sort of like in the pic at the top of this page.

Finished. Although i haven't changed the model screenshot yet.

 

[Khil]

Add some magic aura to this book and we have a real enchanted one!

 

[bisnar13]

hmm yes, ill try

 

[JesusHipster]

How about a teamcolored bookcover?

 

[bisnar13]

yes i will find a fitting texture tomorrow

 

[NyQz]

I think it need some smoothnes, althought its pretty good.

 

[Manuval]

Can you show the book cover?

 

[Roland]

I like the book!

 

[bisnar13]

Can you show the book cover?

Here it is. Sorry if its not to detailed.

 

[AwzomeWulfzz]

This could be useful for a pedestal. (Like editing the Book with Pedestal model and removing the book, and putting this awesome model down there.) Anyways, 5/5. Pretty useful. +Rep to you good sir.

 

[Manuval]

Here it is. Sorry if its not to detailed.

Nice

 

[UgoUgo]

You asked for comments on animations so I'll give some:

Right now all of the animations look very stiff. This is because you are missing something. Variations. When I mean variations, I dont mean stand -1, stand -2, attack 2 or such.

Let me elaborate on this point. If you look at the animations, you will notice they are very repititive. Lets take the 'Stand' as example, you see, it just moves up and down with the same x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis. It makes the model to have robotic characteristics.

So what you can do? For stand animation, perhaps you can add a little difference in motion when going up and down. Example: AT frame 1500, the book goes to z-axis by 15 point. AT 2000, the book goes to z-axis by another 5 points. So by these 2 frames, you can see the book goes up with decreasing acceleration, making it look more natural, less mechanical. After that, you can make the book flaps just a little, just to show there are signs of life/being controlled.

What I stated are just mere examples, use your imaginations to applicate it. I usually refer to warcraft 3 models when it comes to animation.

Just a tip, NEVER animate all parts of model at the same frame. It looks very unnatural. You will notice this on larger scale models.

 

[AwzomeWulfzz]

I suggest you make some add-ons at the book. Like a big runic thingy at the cover. And it doesn't look Dark to me. How about naming it to Enchated Book instead?

 

[bisnar13]

Did you try it in-game? You will only see the dark ribbon and darkness in-game.

 

[Wazzz]

oddly enough, just the idea i was thinking of implementing with a whole group of 'mimics'

 

[kellym0]

this is pretty cool little doodad I like it! 5/10 could use some glowyness!

 

[bisnar13]

this is pretty cool little doodad I like it! 5/10 could use some glowyness!

Its a unit , try it in-game, it looks more evil/dark there

 

[Wazzz]

...doodad?

......oh no...

 

[bisnar13]

...doodad?

......oh no...

its a unit

 

[Uncle Fester]

Looks pretty nice.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Interesting... But if you were to use the "magical tome" model as the base for the book, I think that might be a lot more interesting/useful/cool. That actually looks like a big, magical book (though you've had to animate it to be open & stuff).

 

[bisnar13]

Can anyone help make this model better? I find it hard to improve as you guys say so, since I took a year break from modeling