Metasequoia modeler tutorials and Keynote translated plugins

[airflamesred]

I wouldn't bother with a patch on these. From what I've seen in games, 8 poly on the circumfrence is enough and thats easy enough to work with.

I haven't done much with this - Its not fair to mess with other peoples designs but managed to halve the poly count on the arm. Its really a guess on the level of detail (LOD) it really depends on how close the camera is going to get and if its animated then there is less to concentrate the eye on.

With the eyes, I would just copy from the 'chara constr' file that comes with keynote.

Well done to John for all the tedious work with the anchors. I was just thinking ; create the bones add the auto anchors which will give mats to the bones then delete the anchors. Then just atatch the bone mat to the relevant mesh. Any quicker method John?

[Creatura]

thanks for the advice but why the middle finger? 

[airflamesred]

Ahhh sorry. We brits don't use that one. It hadn't even occured to me

[HwitVlf]

I was just thinking ; create the bones add the auto anchors which will give mats to the bones then delete the anchors. Then just atatch the bone mat to the relevant mesh. Any quicker method John?

That's the method I've been using, and it works quite well. And once you've made a humanoid skeleton, you can use it on other models by just moving the joints to the right place.

[HwitVlf]

I know that he's got the wide eyes going on but thats a wee trait of mine. (fish reference.)
I could say Al Murray on smack but i wont.

Ha, speaking of weird looking eyes...

[airflamesred]

Unless anyone one knows something I don't, the anchorless method leaves us with problems adding a texture no? Or jpeg to be precise. what happened with your skeleton, Creatura in this regard.

[Creatura]

I didn't have time to work on it recently because I was out for work.
I made quick Excellector model though and posted in associated topic here.

[airflamesred]

Whilst digging a hole last week I was suddenly overcome with a fear that attatching a mat to a portion of mesh that this would cause problems adding a single jpeg. However, each mat can reference the same jpeg - doh!. So disaster averted.
There is a problem with exporting the UV map though- I think? unless you export each mat layer separately and then combine the layers.

Come to think of it I have a plugin which may sort this.

Is this making sense?

[airflamesred]

Is this making sense?

Clearly not! I hadn't turned 'material' off (the left side Uv menu). Too be honest I hadn't noticed what it did up until now!

Normal service resumed.

[Verdite]

This really is a treasure trove for meta and keynote users. Looking forward to modelling again, cant really model anything on a laptop, especially without a numpad for box modeling heads in blender :)

Hope you're all having fun at modelling, keep going!