Sumskilz's Unit Creation Blog

[sumskilz]

:O Anything new?

Ha, I got voted for so now I guess I have to produce.

Hopefully soon, I've made a lot of parts recently but nothing complete.

[bobbin]

Congrats on the award sumskilz!

Are you the only one working on units btw? You must be a unit making machine if you are.

[sumskilz]

Are you the only one working on units btw? You must be a unit making machine if you are.

Well it's mostly just me lately, but I've actually been a little slow for the past few months due to RL.

[Heathen Storm]

Well it's mostly just me lately, but I've actually been a little slow for the past few months due to RL.

Its okay man, RL happens to everone

[Hengest]

We've got our first Scandinavian unit coming out soon though, showing off some of Leif Eriksson's work. Swedish Heathen Peasants!

[Heathen Storm]

We've got our first Scandinavian unit coming out soon though, showing off some of Leif Eriksson's work. Swedish Heathen Peasants!

Definitely excited about that

[Cyrus the Virus]

We've got our first Scandinavian unit coming out soon though, showing off some of Leif Eriksson's work. Swedish Heathen Peasants!

Are you calling us heathens my good sir?

[Harðurāðaz]

We've got our first Scandinavian unit coming out soon though, showing off some of Leif Eriksson's work. Swedish Heathen Peasants!

I WANT IT NOW!

[\Vazul's Ghost/]

Great to hear! Really looking forward to it.

[Hengest]

Only those of you that deserve it!

[sumskilz]

I've been experimenting with a new technique of making faces which I think is actually an improvement over what I've done in the past. This model has about the same poly count as ETW/NTW heads:



At a more realistic game distance:

[bobbin]

I've been experimenting with a new technique of making faces which I think is actually an improvement over what I've done in the past. This model has about the same poly count as ETW/NTW heads:



At a more realistic game distance:

Nice work! What is this technique if you don't mind me asking?

[sumskilz]

Nice work! What is this technique if you don't mind me asking?

I don't mind you asking, but I think I'd have to write a multi-page tutorial to explain it properly.

[bobbin]

Haha, no I wasn't expecting that, though if you have a link that could point me in the right direction it would be grand.

[Los San Patricios]

It looks incredible indeed!
Has it a higher, lesser or equal performance hit as your previous faces?

[IVIarkI2I]

I don't mind you asking, but I think I'd have to write a multi-page tutorial to explain it properly.

youre probably using facegen modeller for those faces, saved as 3ds and imported to milkshape?

[sumskilz]

Haha, no I wasn't expecting that, though if you have a link that could point me in the right direction it would be grand.

Well, there are tutorials out there for some aspects of what I do, but it's somewhat something I developed on my own, though I'm sure there are others doing something similar.

Hey Sumskilz
what had you planned for Italians??

Patience

"multi-page tutorial to explain it properly."

yeah teach it please!

Sometime, I'm really busy over the next couple weeks though.

It looks incredible indeed!
Has it a higher, lesser or equal performance hit as your previous faces?

It's a jump from about 320 to 520 polys per head which makes a difference but is still about the same as ETW.

youre probably using facegen modeller for those faces, saved as 3ds and imported to milkshape?

No man, facegen sucks. I don't like it for MTW anyway. The head models are good I guess but the smallest you can get them is 1650 polys and the textures are really plastic looking. Plus you can't really improve the textures because they are UV mapped in such a weird way that it's hard to draw on them.

[Baerke Hinn Gauzki]

.... Sumskilz..... These models are....... Absolutely brilliant...... As close to reality as they can get.......! Oh god, you guys in the team are just flipping great............

[Walkman810i]

Wow that is pretty impressive!

[\Vazul's Ghost/]

He's a dead ringer of my Ciceronian Rome tutor, it's freaky...

Great job though sumskilz!!!!


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