Look and Feel

Discussion in 'Zones and Populations' started by ttobey, May 6, 2015.

  1. Bludd Well-Known Member

    so ttobey anything you can share about the specific part of the kraken mount you have been working on lately? is it the jiggly tentacles or the blinking eyes or maybe the gaping maw?
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  2. ttobey Makes the Monsters Move

    We are working on EQ1 for a couple of months right now but these monsters will eventually wind up in EQ2 too. tutu?
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  3. Geroblue Well-Known Member

    A tutu wearing kraken ! Well, that'll keep people awake at night.
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  4. Hartay Keeper of the Server Hamsters

    Does switching from blocky EQ to a more round EQ2 confuse you sometimes. I've always wondered.
  5. Schmetterling Well-Known Member

    they have picked up some rounded edges on EQ1
    Not so much in this area ( * )( * ) .
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  6. ttobey Makes the Monsters Move

    For what I do, there's not much difference between EQ1 EQ2 or even Unreal.
    EQ1 has a 4 skin weight influences per joint and EQ2 has only 2 so I usually go with 2 and will tweak it better for EQ1. EQ2 has a better joint count. I usually try to keep it all so it's easy to transfer a character from one engine to the other since most monsters we do nowadays will be used in both games eventually.
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  7. Balcerak Well-Known Member

    Meanwhile, back to the Kraken!
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  8. ttobey Makes the Monsters Move

    That's not an appropriate commercial break!
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  9. Bludd Well-Known Member

    but it is a fitting start of the next chapter

    tomothy tobey's self biography, chapter 319: back to the kraken

    "i dont think they believed me when i said that i wasnt working on the kraken mount, but i had to keep up the front. no leaks!

    after a stint working on everquest 1 i was now back to everquest 2 and was dreading tackling the krakens many tentacles, but i knew i had to deliver. the new mount was going to come out with the march expansion and it had to look great. the tentacles had to pulse and twitch just so and it was exquisite work, painstaking work. i sat down at my workstation and looked in the mirror for inspiration"
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  10. ttobey Makes the Monsters Move

    This doesn't seem like something I would write about. It may be a forgery.
  11. Geroblue Well-Known Member

    It isn't a forgery. Ignore the still wet ink.
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  12. Bludd Well-Known Member

    huh, thats WEIRD
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  13. Raff Well-Known Member

    GASP!...someone in Animation is impersonating TToby?

    The plot thickens.....
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  14. Schmetterling Well-Known Member

    yea ttobey acted just like that for a year when we got the broom mount , a master piece .
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  15. Kelvmor Active Member

    Hey, look who's back.
    Nah, but I noticed the "Spontaneous Combustion" fire elemental illusion from the Legends of Norrath stuff still doesn't work with mounts, even though it's just a fiery reskin of the human male model, and wears player armor.

    Mount off:
    [IMG]

    Mount on:

    [IMG]
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  16. ttobey Makes the Monsters Move

    Long time no see! I'll take a look.
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  17. Bludd Well-Known Member

    well you should need a head to operate a flying mount. i think the norrathian air administration wont approve headless pilots
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  18. ttobey Makes the Monsters Move

    You don't get a long time no see.
    Short time too much see.
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  19. Bludd Well-Known Member

    :(
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  20. ttobey Makes the Monsters Move

    You can be King of the Forums for today though if that will turn your frown upside down.
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