Stormie97

Don't eat the leaves, got it.

Thanks for the feedback, always appreciated.

The antenna cups in the vanilla model are actually animated using dedicated bones. Since I went with the regular human rig with this one, I don't have that option available. I did apply your suggestion to make them danglymeshes (as well as the spikes) to give them a bit more life.

The eye cubemap is indeed custom. It's my first time playing around with it and it's hard to gauge how it's going to look applied on a half-sphere. I've reduced the number of lights, it looks a bit more like the movies now.

I don't see a shading issue on the lips, maybe it's the bump and specmap that leave that impression?

Oh it is only the "hair" that uses danglymeshes on the vanilla? Been a while since I looked at it. I know some of the TSL aliens have a few more flappy bits using danglymeshes.

As to the mouth, it' hard to say without seeing it firsthand in-game.

Is it just me, or does the head look a little disproportionately small on those long shots?

Is that like a quintuple chin? Glorious.

One day I was walkin' and I found this big log.
And I rolled the log over and underneath was a tiny little stick,
And I was like, "That log had a child".

My stick is my friend born from a log.
Everyone can see it's better than bacon.

He'll be fine, I hear they have good prosthetics in the Star Wars universe.

Lol, not quite what I meant. I was referring to Odyssey trashing all your hard work with it's broken mip implementation.

Ah I see. Well the point of the high poly sculpt here is to bake all those details into the diffuse texture of the low-poly in-game model, using Substance Painter's Baked Lighting Filter (pretty awesome stuff). It worked quite well for the head so I don't expect too much ugly stuff for the body.

Haters gonna hate. . .

Maybe people like Juhani and her massive chin and strange outfit.

I'll admit I didn't think much of your mod when seeing it, but I never really liked Juhani to begin with.

The amount of interactions around here doesn't seem to be based on much more than chance anyway coupled with regulars.

You do only have a sample of 9 people though... or am I missing something.

It's counterintuitive to just downvote something without giving reasons for the criticism. 

Clearly some people dislike the mod on a fundamental level, so I'd personally like to know why.

There is honestly very little I would do aside from maybe accentuating the wrinkles near his eyes and down the sides of his face like this.

However, that could be achieved with the texture just as easily.

The head is the perfect shape, and the mouth is just the right level of pouched. 

As an aside, I love that you used Trask as your test character. For some reason, it's entertaining to hear his lines coming from that face.

Yep, the Rodian eyes don't even have a round eye surface. Don't get me started on the others like the Ithorians or Nikto as well.

Separate head so it can use regular armour (albeit with hand surgery) or are you sticking with the fixed appearance of the originals?

Separate head and torso. For me, it’s mostly about enhanced texture space. Not sure I’ll bother making a playable Duros myself (or armor wearing Duros NPCs) but I’m planning on releasing a modder’s ressource archive alongside with it, with everything needed for textures and such.

It's like the Star Wars upside down Forever Alone.

Btw what's the poly budget? I'm thinking those brows should probably be geometry (at least partially) rather than normal mapped.

I'm exploring higher poly meshes here, so polycount will be anywhere between 2k and 5k probably. So I'll make most of it actual geometry, should be doable without going overboard. Especially considering that Duros heads don't move much, apart from their mouths.

Edit: Maybe a lil' more than 5k, but I'm not worried too much about the polycount.

Ah good to know. I'm trying to preserve that low-poly style from the vanilla games, but it's nice to know I can give my models a bit more oomph on the polycount. This one stands at a 2,000 polys, so it's actually kind of lightweight.

Lol yeah that is nothing. The last few lightsaber hilts I made had twice that or more.

Finished the prequel-style belt, tried to keep a cohesive topology in the process. I added a pouch (just a small cube) to test out but didn't like how it looked so I'll keep it that way. Only have to texture it now.

Thanks. I used Yuthura's head as a base and worked my way from there in order to get a sort of mix between KOTOR's style and the cartoon. I'll touch up the face a bit, too but I don't want to go overboard into the cartoonish look. This mod shows that the twilek face is actually a good base for Ahsoka, the texture job alone manages to convey her likeness.

Probably a good strategy. I used the PFHA01/Luxa head as a basis for a Nautolan female head back in the pre-"porting is cool now" days and it was useful to get proportions and positioning lined up.

Yes it does save a lot of headaches further down the road in regards of those two factors.

It looks promising!