Mitochondrial Stalker

[Moderator]

18:18, 6th Apr 2012
DonDustin: you should really improve the wrap. The felhound texture is not that bad after all

DonDustin: There is still some funky morphing during the anims and the wrap is still not perfect, but approveable

 

[rcshaggy]

This is something new. LOL...

 

[Vengeancekael]

It looks neat, just.... a higher quality texture I think would have been better, it looks kinda disgusting right now. (I know the creature's supposed to, but still)

 

[Misha]

It looks neat, just.... a higher quality texture I think would have been better, it looks kinda disgusting right now. (I know the creature's supposed to, but still)

yes it is supposed to, and bummer that there isn't higher resolution felhound skin ingame XD

 

[eubz]

WTF, this is GREAT!!!

 

[Tank-Commander]

The animations look a little weird on the model but looks pretty good eitherway

Also is it just me or are there quite a few arachnathid based (animation) models showing up recently?

 

[Misha]

The animations look a little weird on the model but looks pretty good eitherway

they were looking weirder when i've uploaded the model first

Also is it just me or are there quite a few arachnathid based (animation) models showing up recently?

seems so xP

 

[Sin'dorei300]

Cooool! I kinda like it!

 

[Radagast]

nice one Misha.

 

[Misha]

hope it now has a good rewrap

 

[Orcnet]

awesome combo with a rock and felhound wrap

 

[InfernalTater]

This is really cool. Another arachnathid edit, both of them turned out pretty cool looking and with different styles.

You did what you could with the textures you wanted, and I give you a 4/5 despite it being a little blurry.

 

[Misha]

This is really cool. Another arachnathid edit, both of them turned out pretty cool looking and with different styles.

You did what you could with the textures you wanted, and I wish I could give you a 4/5, but unfortunately the textures are blurry and I'll have to give it a 3/5.

not that noticeable ingame

 

[kellym0]

i think its chill, testing animations ingame:

the first potential problem I notice is the unit is placed very far above the ground, so high i can actually see it from a scale of the model at .75

the problem is the smaller it gets the higher it somehow seems to appear, especially on intensely inclined terrain. especially during the stand portrait animation. but also in the stand animation as well.

unless this unit is ment to be hovering with 2 legs off the ground on one side at a time each, i dont have much else to say other then it seems to be flying!!! -Spooooooky


aside from that i think the pincers woulda been a cool additon, if only mabe, one pincer uv wraped? loalz.

tails sick. looks mean.

a perfect THING organism for my map.

il give it a 7/10 because the scorpion models pretty hard to work with

 

[InfernalTater]

not that noticeable ingame

You're right, I just checked. I'm raising my rating to a 4/5.

 

[Misha]

i think its chill, testing animations ingame:

the first potential problem I notice is the unit is placed very far above the ground, so high i can actually see it from a scale of the model at .75

the problem is the smaller it gets the higher it somehow seems to appear, especially on intensely inclined terrain. especially during the stand portrait animation. but also in the stand animation as well.

unless this unit is ment to be hovering with 2 legs off the ground on one side at a time each, i dont have much else to say other then it seems to be flying!!! -Spooooooky

Hm.. on which unit you tested it? maybe it doesn't align with the terrain while walking, i used the scarab to test
EDIT: oh crap.. i don't have a clue how to fix that S:

aside from that i think the pincers woulda been a cool additon, if only mabe, one pincer uv wraped? loalz.

was imagined as a horribly mutated being from parasite eve game, so, no pincers

tails sick. looks mean.

a perfect THING organism for my map.

il give it a 7/10 because the scorpion models pretty hard to work with

TnQ :]

 

[wester]

I really like those bugs, but the walk animation is a bit strange

 

[BlackRangerXIII]

I miss Parasite EVE
Good work

 

[NixEon]

I love Mitochondrial Stalkers

 

[Nasrudin]

Misha I'm not an expert, but I think using translation keys over rotation keys in this case deforms the mesh far too much (body and tail - stand anim; head - walk anim). Translation is fine for soft or fluid materials, but not things with bones or carapace.

That said, I actually like the animations a lot. Walk is nice, bar the exaggerated head movement, death is also well done. Enlarging the tail during the attack is a nice trick, it really reinforces the impression of movement.

Stand is probably the one that deserves some tweaks (the tail gets deformed, the body moves too much while the head has zero vertical movement). Also a second variation where the mouth doesn't get open could be nice.

Very good job overall, keep it up.

 

[Misha]

Misha I'm not an expert, but I think using translation keys over rotation keys in this case deforms the mesh far too much (body and tail - stand anim; head - walk anim). Translation is fine for soft or fluid materials, but not things with bones or carapace.

That said, I actually like the animations a lot. Walk is nice, bar the exaggerated head movement, death is also well done. Enlarging the tail during the attack is a nice trick, it really reinforces the impression of movement.

Stand is probably the one that deserves some tweaks (the tail gets deformed, the body moves too much while the head has zero vertical movement). Also a second variation where the mouth doesn't get open could be nice.

Very good job overall, keep it up.

that's about all i could make to the original scorpion animset, without having to edit the anims themselves, which is still beyond me (since animating in milkshape is from scratch and destroys the existing war3 skeleton, which i didn't want to do)

 

[Nasrudin]

Ah, d'oh, I really thought they were custom animations... nevermind then.

 

[Mr.Pockets00000]

I like it. It is very creative. Could be good for a zergling-type unit in an RTS. 4/5