2010-05-22, 05:04 AM
I meant to suggest before modeling the snake helmet to match the snake monster. It might have an extra appendage on its head (or maybe I'm imagining that) but anyway it would make the item fit more snuggly into the already existing Som asset set / add character. So like if you found in an area populated by those snakes you'd have a good idea how it was fashioned. If it's just meant to be a metal helmet in a decorative style well then back to the drawing board.
About in game portraits. It would probably look best assuming the portraits are meant to be "photo realistic" if you just took a screenshot of your in game models. If the portraits are of characters not in the game go ahead and make models for the characters anyway that matches the style of the game. I'm not the ultimate authority in these matters by any means but to do otherwise tends to make games appear even more amateur than they may be. Even if the portraits were perfect reproductions of oil paintings or whatever you have in mind, in a universe populated by low poly abstract eyeless denizens it looks tacky to break out of that esthetic unless you're really going for a matte painting kind of effect (probably not applicable to Som)
@ML: Not sure what is going on with the grass pieces but just wanted to remind everyone the existing outdoor set really has problems where the enemy/npcs feets meet the ground. That is the ground and even stone walk way pieces are well above actual foot level. I hope you make use of the outdoor set because it could really use some additional pieces to fill it out and I hope at some point you'd be willing to volunteer to do that. You seem to have a knack and what needs to be done is really trivial compared to the stuff you're doing I think.
About in game portraits. It would probably look best assuming the portraits are meant to be "photo realistic" if you just took a screenshot of your in game models. If the portraits are of characters not in the game go ahead and make models for the characters anyway that matches the style of the game. I'm not the ultimate authority in these matters by any means but to do otherwise tends to make games appear even more amateur than they may be. Even if the portraits were perfect reproductions of oil paintings or whatever you have in mind, in a universe populated by low poly abstract eyeless denizens it looks tacky to break out of that esthetic unless you're really going for a matte painting kind of effect (probably not applicable to Som)
@ML: Not sure what is going on with the grass pieces but just wanted to remind everyone the existing outdoor set really has problems where the enemy/npcs feets meet the ground. That is the ground and even stone walk way pieces are well above actual foot level. I hope you make use of the outdoor set because it could really use some additional pieces to fill it out and I hope at some point you'd be willing to volunteer to do that. You seem to have a knack and what needs to be done is really trivial compared to the stuff you're doing I think.