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Post by Draconisaurus »

Wow I just found this thread.... lol So SI you think you can fix up that raptor skin? It wasn't too hard for me to render it in the right format, I can do it again easily. It really does look very nice... just needs some adjustment around the mid-body and a couple other spots. 8)
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yeah it shouldn't be too hard, if I can get some screen shots of where stuff needs fixing...
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OK SI here are some more raptor renders from Tom:

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Ok, that looks cool, so wait is this skin being used in JPDS? if so I have a fews questions, wouldnt we want to put it on another rap body, cause the JP/// raps had a more of a tc_isle build, also what about the quills/feathers on the top of his head? Anyway looks good and Ill try to continue posting as long as my comp doesnt crash.
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ok...that second pic shows the spots good...I'll see what I can do...


once that's done all it needs is a head crest
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i'm having some trouble lining up the pieces of the skin so I can know where things need to be fixed. Any one have any ideas of where the pieces meet and where'd theyd overlap and such?
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Hey SI, don't suppose you've come any further with the JP/// rap skin have you? :?:
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I haven't worked on it for a couple weeks...I might have to start all over again, to try and get a more uniform skin...

I was trying to contact remdul or anyone who maybe knew of a way to make one skin and then seperate it later...

I do have a new computer, so I can finally see the dinosaurs in TPDC so that helps out alot...
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Cool well tell us when you make more headway, or if you need any help. One suggestion I can make is directly comparing the TC maps with your JP///-rap maps to see if they obviously differ in any way. As for combining them now and seperating them afterwords, I'd say there's only a small chance of that happening but it's possible.

Also SI, when you get a chance, talk with MikeTheRap about some music things he has in mind for JPDS... ;)
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alright...the big problem is that I think the skin pieces overlap and I'm not exactly sure where it is that they do...I'll come up with something I suppose....most likely I'll start over from scratch, or atleast redo everything except the head....

I'll drop a pm for the music stuff....
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OK sounds good. BTW SI, I'm not sure if you can do this, and if you can't just say so and I'll work it out, but one way to tell what's going on with the textures is first of all to make each texture a different solid color, and have a black grid on it to show how it wraps around the body (numbers would probably be too big). I'm thinking this should show you where each image ends up on the raptor. :)
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yeah...that might help...

though I'm still going to redo the body, planning it out better so hopefully it'll be closer....


now I remember...what I tried doing was moving one part of the skin out of the folder, so that it didn't load with the model to see where it ended up...

I think if I start with the head, and have only that load up, and then work on the adjacent part of the skin and get that to fit up perfectly and so on until it all fits...yeah that should work...
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Yeah there ya go! :yes: Give us an update when you can. When it's done we can post it in the public JPDS thread along with some other updates. 8)
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here's a small update....I worked at it for a while last night....and got frustrated because it still isn't synching up properly which is weird because I overlapped the head/neck skin, with the upper body/arm skin thinking that that would make them meld together uniformly...yet that is not the result I got....

so I'm stumped for the moment...but I'll keep trying...
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K I'm pretty damn bussy tonight, probably won't even have time for terraforming, but maybe 2morrow I can slip in some time to test my grid-layout theory. Keep tryin though! I'm sure it's doable. :)
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