ok, thanks to Kman the model is mapped and we can start skinning it. i have a test at university tomorrow and birthday on sunday, so there will be not much progress this weekend, but i hope to get a lot more done the next week. so stay tuned.
and once again: thank you KMAN
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/kman/images/projects/jk/dooku1.jpg)
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/kman/images/projects/jk/dooku2.jpg)
After unwrapping him, I set out on skinning him. This is where I am at now. Still have about 40+ years to add to the face, and then more work on the clothing. I only had time to add a basic texture to the clothing and extra pieces.
Ok, seeing that 2nd pic of the face, that was spooky.. !!! almost made me need to run for my blankey. ;) LOL, but definitely good work on the model/skinning... I'm just wondering when someone can make an anakin skywalker that has that black jedi robe from Episode 2, just with the hood back, and not on his head.
How did you make his face look so much like it?! Also that lil skirt thing he has (I'm not trying to be rude or a smart ass by saying skirt i dont know its actual name) did he have it in the move? Also is he gona only use 1 hand when he swings the saber like in the movie. and 1 more thing well you guys be creating a saber model for it?
MonkeyKungFu already did an excellent model for dooku's saber hilt. and since garik loran is working together with him, he does new pics for the HUD, we have permission to add it to our model, as far as i know.
KMAN, you skin is absolutely amazing, i don't think i could have done any better. one thing i noticed: the lips should be smaller, and a bit more flesh-colored. now it makes him look a bit too feminine. but hair and eyebrows are perfect.
nice work...
Originally posted by Archmv04
How did you make his face look so much like it?! Also that lil skirt thing he has (I'm not trying to be rude or a smart ass by saying skirt i dont know its actual name) did he have it in the move? Also is he gona only use 1 hand when he swings the saber like in the movie. and 1 more thing well you guys be creating a saber model for it?
Well here's a scan of him and yes he does have that "skirt" thing:
http://www.vengeance-unlimited.org/Jedi%20Outcast/Episode%20II/Scans/CD-1.jpg)
http://www.vengeance-unlimited.org/Jedi%20Outcast/Episode%20II/Scans/CD-2.jpg)
Originally posted by Archmv04
is he gona only use 1 hand when he swings the saber like in the movie
I think that is an animation thing. I don't believe that raven has released a way to create or edit animations.
Ok, I am really happy seeing the progress the models and skin are making.
And there is a saber made by MonkeyKungFu, and I made the HUD for it. I have not asked MonkeyKungFu yet (so if you read this please reply to it) but I hope I may add his saber to the Dooku model.
I also finished the HUD images for the saber, have a look.
http://home.t-online.de/home/0236859584/SWJK2/dookusaber.jpg)
i lovet hat skinage there kman. Alas his head is the wrong shape! Christopher Lee has a much longer thin face... not that fat arse face that this model has... needs to be fixed me thinks. Oh yeah what about the red inlay he has on his cape... that is mega impostant cos it is the dracula reference of all that camped up evil badguy business that he is so good at doing....
Arco
hey, hes conceptally count dooku :), not nessassary christropher lee
Now that I've seen it skinned, I do agree that the head does need to be lengthened. I don't think Dooku wore eyeshadow or lipstick either. :D I don't think his lips should be as tapered. Well, there's my two cents. :D
His head is to wide...he looks like an old freaky version New York Yanks first basemen Jason Giambi. The rest of the skin is loverly, he just looks to beefy to be an old guy (someone should be able to post some ref. pics for you both)
Someone already did post reference pics.
*bump*
Any updates? this model looks great, and i'd hate to see it just disaepear away. :(
still fighting with the textures. i will post some pics when there is some progress. unfortunately i didn't get so much done, because i have been busy but keep cool. this model won't just disappear, i'm eager to see it finished myself.
all i ask is to be patient...
Awesome model!!! Yet another sith lord to play with!
Keep up the good work, and take your time. A perfect model is much better than a buggy one.
Originally posted by Blades006
Awesome model!!! Yet another sith lord to play with!
Am I the only sick-minded person here that found this funny? :D
Then again, a weaker Sith Lord.
Originally posted by Pedantic
Am I the only sick-minded person here that found this funny? :D
Yeah I guess it did sound a little odd. Well, you know what I mean.
I think the freaky thing is the nose. It needs to be a little bigger.
Keep up the good work :)
Originally posted by Ray Stantz
Then again, a weaker Sith Lord.
I don't know about that. He stomped Obi-Wan and Anakin fairly easily, and Obi-Wan took Maul apart (no pun intended) while he was still only a Padawan. Of the three lightsaber-weilding Sith we've seen, in order from best to Worst, it would probably have to be Vader, Tyrannus, Maul. Maul just LOOKS badass, and he's quick. Tyrannus is more powerful :)
BradFu!
well i think darth Maul was the best lasersword-fighter of all the sith. darth tyranus is more powerful, because he has much greater understanding of the force, where he is actually as powerful as yoda.
it is really hard to decide where to put vader, because you only saw him fighting an old obi-wan and a young unexperienced luke skywalker. and vader was old and "crippled" by that time. it will be interesting what vader will be like in episode 3, when you (hopefully) will see him on top of his sith career.
please make his face a bit more narrow, narrow like Christopher Lee, not Dooku. :D , then he'd look amazing.
Well, Vader is definately the coolest of the Sith. :D
very good looks like him but face is abit dark but a very detailed model so far
I've just gotten into JK2 modeling myself, it's fairly simple but one quesiton
How do you get certain MP chars with custom lightsabers? or are you replacing the saber model? and even then are there tutorials aon weapon replacements? i'll be searching but if you could tell me in advance thanks:D
Then again I was comparing Dooku to Vader when I said "Then again, a weaker Sith Lord."
Originally posted by Luuke
lasersword
Light Saber
(remember that or I kill you ;) )
Originally posted by Kx_Dra_Sycdan
Light Saber
Lightsaber ;) :D
Originally posted by agentj64
I've just gotten into JK2 modeling myself, it's fairly simple but one quesiton
How do you get certain MP chars with custom lightsabers? or are you replacing the saber model? and even then are there tutorials aon weapon replacements? i'll be searching but if you could tell me in advance thanks:D
by now it is just replacing the standard LIGHTSABER hilt, but i hope someone will make them selectable soon.
That face skin bares an uncanny resemblance to Michael Jackson. Do something about the nose please. A little less nose-job-ish.
I hope the lack of updates dont mean this model has been abandoned! :( :confused:
The model looks great and i hope it is realeased soon.
Actually I think the eyes of dooku looks kinda "friendly", and should be somewhat reduce a bit in scale
no, this model has not been canceled. but because of my bad luck, i can't skin any more at the moment. i hurt my right arm at sports, now i have a pulled muscle (my dictionary says that's the right word) and can hardly hold my mouse.
thanx to Kman the model is finished and unwrapped, so if there are some good skinners who want to try on the textures let me know!
Perhaps a thread should be created in the Skinning forum to recruit someone to finish him off...?
I would be more than happy to skin this model. I have skinned for quite a while now, and I would be glad to help. If you are wondering "well i dunno are you a good skinner or do ya suck?" go to jk2files.com or jediknight.net or jedioutcast.com and look at the skins under my name You can be the judge :) Or just ask some one like sithlord ii, I made an alternate skin for his Exar Kun model , heheh e-mail me: omar_torresjr@hotmail.com
keeping in mind that Sithlord isnt using Omar's skin........
-Abs
Whoever skins it has to make sure to get the face right, 'cause it pretty much makes or breaks a Dooku model.
I'll send the skinmaps to omar_torres, so he can try it. I think his Vader skin was not really bad, and he wrote in an e-mail that Dooku is one of his favorites, so I'm sure he tries very hard.
And I love perfection, so if i am not satisfied I will help omar, that's what I did together with Luuke. And the old skin looked a lot like dooku, I think.
Don't worry. I think it will be a good one.
I use about 4 or 5 of Omar's skins.
I can easily say that they are very good quality and I have no problem seeing him work on Dooku.
Originally posted by Oobedoob Benobi
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Originally posted by Archmv04
is he gona only use 1 hand when he swings the saber like in the movie
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I think that is an animation thing. I don't believe that raven has released a way to create or edit animations.
yea well it IS an animation thing.. and they haven't released any tools to edit them... but theres no need for creating new 1 handed animations (and it'd be way too hard too)
they already are in there... theres two more stances in the game..
1handed blue and 1 handed red.. tavion and desann use em
needs some coding to enable them for MP... but its possible...
Here is how the face is coming along. I remapped the lining of his cape so It can be a different material. Keep in mind that the model itself would need to be changed for an ACCURATE likeness to be portrayed.
http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/kman/images/projects/jk/dooku4.jpg)
Made him a bit more menacing, added 10-20 more years (about 100 left to go) gave him bigger sideburns and a fuller beard, changed the skin hood over his eye lids and lightened up his lips.
Q on his belt- is it a red tone or is it just a fine leather material?
nice to see that with all your projects you still found the time to continue your work on dooku. i really appreciate your work KMan.
the belt is just leather i think, light brown leather. but i only have one good pic, so if someone knows better please correct me.
next i will take a look at the model's head again and see if i can correct some things to make him look much more like dooku. i find it kind of hard to edit models just by imaginating the skin, so the newest pic will help me a lot to see what has to be done.
Nice skin Kman!!
Can you perhaps explain to me how you made the beard and hair look zo real.
Ooow, btw, Luuke/Garik Loran, I'd also like to make a skin for this model :D Perhaps a younger dooku, still a jedi? :D
Can you send me the sdk? grafox@quicknet.nl
That was part of the question. It was my understanding that his cape lining is sort of a dark red velvety material. In that pic the belt piece appears to be the same tone as the cape liner. Either they are the same toned material or that person used a pretty crappy scanner.