#bastekh'met

[komissarbaverick]

Got around to making a few final tweaks to the recent Bastekh’Met tomb stalker model, as well as giving it some UV maps and textures.

9,200 Triangles

Body material uses a diffuse, roughness, and metal texture, as well as a separate emissive material for the eyes and a handful of glowing bits inside of the torso, which can open up.

198 bones

The rig is also equipped with a handful of tools and weapons, which can be toggled between being held in the hands or holstered on the legs.

Full View of last render

[komissariart]

Local Madman converts a handful of his game rigs and ports them into Virtual Shitposting Simulator with varying degrees of success

I don’t have a VR headset so I obviously can’t test them out fully.

Bast has facial animations but the eye tracking refuses to work. Jujehyu doesn’t have any, since she is wearing a helmet. Oddly enough, the jaw flap on the armor is acting as if her mouth is wide open, showing the empty helmet if anybody is standing underneath.

I was planning to give the Bast a sword or two that she could pull out on a gesture, and the Jujehyu could equip and shoot her carbine. There was also an idea where she could take off her helmet since I’ve seen that done with some Halo and WH40K avatars, but I’m not at that level with Unity yet. The alternative is to make an alternate version with the helmet missing, and maybe the rest of the armor too.

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Local madman digs up an ancient xenos automaton and restructures its chassis to fit the proportions of a recent depiction of its species pre-extinction, while also making it 50% shinier and more spooky

14/06/18

Made the “original” Bastekh’Met model like a year and a half ago and never touched it again. Got inspired out of nowhere to pick it up and give it the polish that it deserves. Could do with a bit of tweaking here and there, but it should make do at this particular moment.

It’s currently in the regular Bast file and can be quickly switched back and forth between the living and automaton edition. It’s multi-piece mesh means it’s a lot more forgiving with some poses, although the shoulders are still tricky to deal with.

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Local madman makes Bast murderclaws even murder-ier

Just spent the past few hours painstakingly adding a few more bones into the Bast’s paws, giving them the ability to extend their claws.

Couldn’t figure out a way to change the Bast’s mesh for the claws to extend without overcomplicating it for the aesthetic [like seriously, shit wouldn’t even be visible in most cases so why bother], so they have a bit of a shorter range, while tomb stalkers have a much more formidable reach.

I also added some sockets to the rig for holsters, as well as adding support for dual-wielding the swords and daggers. I didn’t actually add any holsters to the mesh, so they kinda just float off their thighs at the moment. I’ll get to the proper stuff when I get to making the class outfits / chassis mods.

[komissariart]

A Bastekh'Met guard stands at her post [Circa 6000 BTC, colorized]

Made a Bast staff today. It can extend and grab things.

Bast guards also tend to use their staves to do vaulting and other crazy acrobatics during a chase so that they run faster and look more intimidating or some shit

Technically they’re already kinda quick and nimble but sometimes you just gotta be super flashy and fulfill your daily flexing quota, you know?

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I seriously hope you guys don’t render this

Bonus shitpost 23/03/18

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Absolute madman conjures a manifestation of a qt 3.14 wife and proceeds to jam an entire skeleton into her, all under the span of two and a half days

02/02/18

First time making a character with absurd amounts of fluff. Weight paints are still first pass, and aside from the highly dense facial polygons, the rig came out better than expected. Only did enough work on the facial rig to untangle most of the bones, but they could certainly do with more tweaking.

[komissariart]

I also fixed up the Bastekh’Met rig [20/02/18] so that the facial rig and the joints work properly, but the shoulders definitely need a bit of work in some poses.

Reworked the disgustingly ancient Komissariat rig [26/02/18] but had to make a few sacrifices in the process. Originally he was supposed to he tall and lanky, with his waist being somewhere in the middle of his body [just below his scarf] but there were many issues with his low-cut trenchcoat. I tried lowering his waist a little, but before I knew it, he had pretty short legs and a long-ass torso.

Such is life in the Zone. At least it further emphasizes that he’s not supposed to be a human.