#melissagt

[kala-hira]

dreaminginstasis replied to your photo “Holy shit, painting on a 3d model in photoshop is a freaking miracle...”

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melissagt

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“Holy shit, painting on a 3d model in photoshop is a freaking miracle...”

I must know the witchcraft! I use Mudbox, but in all honesty, it's a right pain in the pattoo.

melissagt

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“Holy shit, painting on a 3d model in photoshop is a freaking miracle...”

Wait...wut?!? You can do this in Photoshop???? Did you find a tutorial anywhere on it?

I found this by error, lol as per most of my modding experience. 

First you have to get the nif into obj form so I exported the body nif as an obj using outfit studio.

 Then I opened photoshop and opened the obj file. Once loaded if you right click a little menu will come up (if you click the second option it is your material file).

I also turned off catch & cast shadows as it makes it harder to see the main body texture.

Once open you can add your diffuse, spec & normal maps by replacing the default textures. 

If you double click on the texture layer in your layer menu, it will open the body texture as a psb file which will show your painting on the flat texture as you work.

I have tiled mine side by side so I can edit both the diffuse in flat & 3d form. 

You can now paint on the 3d object like normal and it will show on the flat texture. You can save the psb file as a dds when you are done :) 

I made some of my tattoos on the flat texture then made it into a brush so it was easier to apply. 

Hope this helps! If not let me know :) 

[cavalier-life]

Music Tag Meme

Shuffle your music library and put in the first 10 songs that come up, then tag 10 people!

I was tagged by @melissagt and @the-sith-in-the-sky-with-diamond and I am pretty sure I was tagged by @rainofaugustsith too, but I’m tired and I can’t find it in my mentions, so if I’m wrong, sorry!  Also sorry this is late.. life’s been a little hectic lately ;) 

1. Back To You - Selena Gomez (Not usually my jam, but I love this song)

2. Love and War - Fleurie

3. Money (That’s What I Want) - Flying Lizzards

4. Sweet Life (Lost Girl Mix) - Madison (Lost Girl season 2)

5. Reminisce - Mary J Blige

6. Lions Inside - Valley of Wolves

7. Grace - Bob Moses

8. Voodoo In My Blood - Massive Attack & Young Fathers

9. Can You Hear Me? - Unsecret

10. Loved By The Sun - Tangerine Dream (Legend Sndtrk)

I’m not tagging ten people cause I’m like.. the last person to finish this, I think. ;)

[greencrusader13]

Haha, now I want to know what your OC's would think of Lelu (and Raz...I mean my Raz, haha).

Haha sure!

Lelu

I think Eonur would be cautious of her ruthlessness, but admire that she is ruthless for the people she cares about in her life. It would probably take awhile before they become friends, but if they were to both be part of the Eternal Alliance I can see them bonding over time as they work together and as Eonur sees more of her intentions. Hell, he might even try to sway her over to the light, not that it would go well haha.

Greylam and Lelu would not get along well. There would be so much mistrust, and they would just be better off sticking to their own separate corners.

Tyar would have oodles of respect for Lelu. She strikes him as very Sith-y: graceful but deadly, manipulative to get what she wants (despite her often good reasons, from what I gather). She exemplifies the passion side of the Sith Code. Again, similar to what I said to @the-sith-in-the-sky-with-diamond , he would be baffled by her romance decisions and believe she could do better than a weakling Republic spy and a two-bit pirate (his words, not mine).

Cirak is hard to place. I can see him having fun with her in whatever form that takes, but I don’t think they’d ever form a friendship or anything else. I think they’d have a good working relationship, be amicable acquaintances, etc.

Raz (yours not mine :P)

Eonur and Raz would get along great. I think they’d train together as Jedi, and from what I’ve gathered from your posts Raz has a very loose view of the Jedi Code, assuming she follows it at all. Eonur in his later days would relate well to that. He puts much more emphasis on justice and being a force (no pun intended) for good in the galaxy, and so long as Raz was acted such they’d get along fine.

Greylam would be very confused by Raz. She doesn’t exactly act like a Jedi should, and Greylam is the archetypal Jedi and all their ideals rolled into a human-shaped blob. He’d probably see her the same way one might see a disruptive-but-bright pupil and try to get her to meditate with him, calm her down, and just be generally confused when none of it works.

Tyar would hate Raz. Not only is she a Jedi - which earns automatic hatred for him - she’s too fun loving. Her happiness would be something he’d seek to destroy. He’d hate her for turning Lord Scourge against the Emperor, but would also appreciate her getting him out of the way so that he could assume his rightful position as the Emperor’s Wrath.

Cirak and Raz...oh god. Fast forward to the Original Trilogy, and the Empire never would’ve needed a Death Star. Just set these two loose on a planet with a few drinks and unlimited credits and their adventures would end in chaos for sure. Cirak and Raz would be the best of friends. They’d joke well together, enjoy life together, and just take things chill. Who knows what might happen when they go out on the town.

Thanks for the ask! :D

[autisticdindjarin]

A commission I did of the Sith Inquisitor, Lelu, from @the-sith-in-the-sky-with-diamond to @melissagt

[kunoichi-ume]

Ik not sure how to do it on mobile, so I'll just ask...which character is the most clever? For the emoji ask!

Send an Emoji to the Writer! 

 🦊 — Which character is the most clever?

I don’t know how to do that on mobile either, so just asking totally works. Thanks for asking!

Naadia is by far the most clever. Former Imperial Intelligence spy who managed to survive and thrive there as well as getting out and disappearing completely under the radar without becoming a hermit. She is also the best cook and very good at making her own recipes. 

[salaciouscrumpet]

WIP Meme

Tagged by @melissagt Thank you!

Rules:

Go to your current work in progress, share the following, then tag at least 3 people.

- The first line of the work.

- The first line of your current chapter.

- The last line you wrote.

- A line for a chapter/part you haven’t written yet.

From my current fanfic, Scars Beyond Counting (Dragon Age: Inquisition)

The First Line of the Work:

“The Iron Bull was not so insecure that he needed to be proven right all the time, or that he felt any satisfaction in knowing his suspicions were correct when the rebel mages – for that is what he was certain they were – dragged Cullen away for the third time.” 

Because I am apparently incapable of not being wordy as fuck.

The First Line of the Current Chapter (most recently-posted chapter):

“He couldn’t tear his eyes away from the whipping post.”

JFC. <facepalms>

The Last Line I Wrote:

“The ranting had taken on a rote quality.”

A Line For a Chapter/Part I Haven’t Written Yet:

““I beg your pardon, [Redacted], I did not think to stop and ask his motivation while I was fighting for my life.””

I’m not going to tag anyone because I’ve no idea who hasn’t done this yet, but if you want to take part in this WIP meme then by all means, please feel free to do so!  :)

[defira85]

melissagt replied to your post: I have no interest in Anthem the shitty Destiny...

I know it’s not much comfort, but “halting development” doesn’t have to mean “server shutdown.” Many old MMO’s were around for years after development ended, so you could still play. It sucks, but at least there’s that. It’s still up in the air though, so I’d take anything you read on Kotaku with a grain of salt. It’s all rumors and speculation at this point.

We’ve got hope to cling to, true, I just don’t trust EA as far as I can throw them when it comes to saving money, and if they decide that keeping the servers online is too expensive they won’t even hesitate

I suppose I’d be more optimistic if it wasn’t a crummy week at work to begin with but right now it feels a bit like “YES OF COURSE, BECAUSE WHAT ELSE COULD POSSIBLY GO BAD WITH MY WEEK” 

they want dragon age 4 to have live elements for constant revenue stream but that’s... literally... what... swtor is doing????

[meonlyred]

melissagt replied to your post: andveryginger replied to your post: ...

I used to play GW2…up through Hearth of Thorns and honestly that game never hit as hard as SWTOR can. But, with these older game engines, we need to remember that they can only do so much. Newer hardware has largely outpaced DX9, so games that are stuck using the older API cannot properly utilize powerful multi-threading processors. And if you’re on Windows 8.1 or 10, you’re even more gimped with 32bit applications, because Windows limits them to 4GB of VRAM.

I do enjoy playing GW2 but yeah same, it never struck the same cord with me that SWTOR did. I’ll go months or sometimes a year without even touching it. I do like how much more mobile you are in GW2. I catch myself trying to double-tab to dodge in SWTOR. There is other things like; I prefer SWTOR’s outfit tabs to GW2′s transmutation stones. But then GW2′s dye system is the best I have ever seen.

SWTOR has utterly ruined me when it comes to other mmos especially when it comes to story and characters. “What do you mean there isn’t fully voiced choice based conversations!? What do you mean I can’t sleep with these NPCs?!” 

And yeah, the HeroEngine is unwieldy. The fact that Bioware has manage to make what they have out of it is a fucking miracle. So I don’t blame them too much when something breaks. I hope with whatever mmos they might come out in the future that they pick a different engine.