Bob T.'s alien heads

[Guest Bob Ta'aar]

Ah, I just love how the forum keeps growing. And since here's a new section, I'm gonna put in here, what I'm currently working on.

 

I always hated the lack of alien species to play as your PC and to be honest, most alien-head mods I tried weren't satisfying eighter.

So I'm working on several alien-heads at the moment with plans to release a mod, that adds most alien species that are in the game as playable PC heads.

 

Before you think, these won't be the boring full-body models where you can't see any cloth-changes at all and half the animations not working.

I'm actually very close to have a fully working Weequay-head on a normal human body (wich I'll tweak yet to match a Weeqay-body of course), the only thing missing at the moment are the facial animations, but once I can find the right hex-edit, it should be fully operational. The same method should work on all other heads as well, so I'll be able to include all species with near-human bodys.

 

The three species that already have head-only models I'm remaking into more individual heads, here are a few screenies of my Zabrak, Devaronian and female Twi'lek:

 

 

 

[Mandalore 61]

Those look cool.

[jswartz0181 18]

Okay, I have to ask. With the Twi'leks, is red going to be the only color, or will the full (or somewhat-full) spectrum of skin tones be available?

[Guest Bob Ta'aar]

Well, I don't think it'll be the only color. But so far the Lethan female is the only one I started yet and to be honest, the texturing part is my least favourite, I'm more the modelling type .

I'm still far from satisfied with the underwear-model of the Twi'lek (the boots need to got/change and I think I'll change the color into something else), but the UVM map of the Handmaiden-model (wich I obviously used) just plain sucks. I spent half a dozen hours to remove the neck-collar without changing anything else!

 

I even might recruit some good texturerers once I have a couple of good models to work with, so far I'm still at the very beginning (although I already learned much more that I'd ever imagined to be possible in that short time).

[jswartz0181 18]

Was just wondering. Of all the colors Twi'leks come in, red has always been my least favorite.

[Guest HaVoKeR]

Zabrak? Darth Maul ancestor in kotor... =p

[Guest Astor]

Any chance of you using these new skins to change some of the NPC clones in the game?

[jjo 2]

...That Zabrak totally has a target right on his crotch.

 

But these are looking really nice! Looking forward to the completed product.

[Mandalore 61]

I even might recruit some good texturerers once I have a couple of good models to work with, so far I'm still at the very beginning (although I already learned much more that I'd ever imagined to be possible in that short time).

I'm not bad at texturing. Need a hand?

[Guest Bob Ta'aar]

Was just wondering. Of all the colors Twi'leks come in, red has always been my least favorite.

hehe, well, Lethans are my personal favorites on the other hand . but I think I'll with the Twi'leks, I'll release (sooome day) a pack with some different colors.

 

Any chance of you using these new skins to change some of the NPC clones in the game?

I haven't planned this, but once they're finished, my models will be free-to-use for any other modders, as long as they give me a little credit, so maybe somebody will make such a mod.

 

I'm not bad at texturing. Need a hand?

Actually, I joined with Bullobrien at the Holowan Labs now, who's done a terrific Togruta-skin for the Twi'lek head. I made a Togruta-shaped head-model now, that is even fully working, but we're stuck at the uvm-mapping, 'cause neighter of us has got any expirience with that. You or anybody else knows how to do that?

'Cause no kiddin', we're very close to actually have a completely functional Togruta-model for K2 .

[Sith Holocron 2,478]

Actually, I joined with Bullobrien at the Holowan Labs now, who's done a terrific Togruta-skin for the Twi'lek head. I made a Togruta-shaped head-model now, that is even fully working, but we're stuck at the uvm-mapping, 'cause neighter of us has got any expirience with that. 'Cause no kiddin', we're very close to actually have a completely functional Togruta-model for K2 .

 

If you get that working, might I suggest you offer it to Logan23 for inclusion in his Revenge of Revan mod? Redrob41 (also attached to ROR) might be able to assist you with UVM mapping. I suggest private messaging him to confirm that first though.

[Guest Mablus25]

I agree with Sith Holocron would suggest offcer your ideas and mod to Logan23 for his mod

[redrob41 86]

If you get that working, might I suggest you offer it to Logan23 for inclusion in his Revenge of Revan mod? Redrob41 (also attached to ROR) might be able to assist you with UVM mapping. I suggest private messaging him to confirm that first though.

I'd like to help out with that, but I've been having problems with exporting models in 3DSmax. If I get that sorted out, I'd definitely take a crack at the uvw map for you. So far, the Togruta screenies I've seen have been stellar. You could always PM me the model (binary.mdl & ascii.mdl & .mdx) files, just to take a look. I Can't promise anything though.

[Guest Bob Ta'aar]

alright, sorry for the long time I've been gone. my full-time edication as a teacher just didn't leave any time for modding .

anyways, I'm back now and wooooaaah, what did I see? VP actually did the tutorial on how to compile freely-modded and changed head-models back for the game! And it friggin' works !

sorry, for getting so excited, but I just got a FULLY (and I MEAN fully) working, animated, exactly matched to the collar, Weequay-head in-game.

 

 

 

anyways, this means, that I'll work on implementing the heads of all the full-body aliens in the game as playable PCs. but it's really good news for the Twi'lek and Togruta too, 'cause now I should definitely be able to make headgear displayable on them too.

 

I'll gladly send anybody the model-files of my Togruta-head, who want's to give the UVW map a shot. That's just not my area of expertise .

 

Btw. is there a talented skinner, who'd like to reskin some underwear-models to match the alien heads?

[Guest Dark_Ansem]

you going to make good use of VP's discovery?

[Guest Bob Ta'aar]

exactly . well, I kinda feel obligated to, as I think I'm one of the folks, who pushed him to write the tutorial in the first place, after I got so frustrated with the hex-edit guessing not working .

I can already confirm that his method definitely works for adding helpers like for displaying headgear too. The female Twi'lek head has now all-functional headgear .

[Guest Dark_Ansem]

a breakthrough!

[Guest Bob Ta'aar]

yeah, it might be a small step for the casual user, but it's a huge step for the modding-community . and if I think about how many hours I've wasted with hex-edit guessing ... . VP's just THE MAN!

 

anyways, here's a screenie of a fully animated, human-body matching Aqualish with working (sort of) headgear. the head is considerably bigger than the human ones, so some headgear gets clipped a little, but it still looks much better, than I feared.

 

 

[Guest Dark_Ansem]

that is impressive result. Aqualish Jedi!

[Guest Bob Ta'aar]

well, I ran into some troubles with the Bith-head, as it's missing the necklwr_g bone. anybody knows how to add a bone to a model?

 

got the Duros-head done now though. it's fully working, although most goggles are just too tight for that old bubblehead. I think it'll be a good idea to make my heads compatible with the no-headgear mod .

 

 

 

[Guest Dark_Ansem]

I agree.

[Sith Holocron 2,478]

A) Any luck with adding a neck bone to the Bith model?

Which other creatures do you plan to work on?

C) What's left on the list?

[VarsityPuppet 1,085]

Send me the ascii for the bith head. I shall attempt to fix it.

[Guest Bob Ta'aar]

Thanks a lot for the offer, VP, I just sent you the file with a PM.

 

I have fully working heads of Aqualish, Duros, Nikto & Weequay.

 

The Bith-head is animation-less due to the missing necklwr_g-bone.

The Gran-head won't display his ears for some reason and is preeetty big.

Left to do: Quarren, Rodian, Sullustan & Trandoshan.

[Guest jif]

Good job so far looking forward to this.