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s2odan wrote:
My god man, what have you created? Seriously , what are these?
Haha I try not to catagorize my "things" but in simple terms, I would call them dimented babies from the deepest pits of hell
JamieGrant wrote:
Dear Subzeroplainzero,Great work there! Let me know if I can assit when you begin to add age, glasses, visors, tatoos, helmet art, microphones, percings, etc. to the figures. -- Jamie
Thanks for the offer! I will no doubt take you up on it when the time is right!

Thats a nice tweed jacket that guy is wearing They are looking good. Jamie is a bit of a Dab-hand so he might know a thing or two about how to make them look older

s2odan wrote:
Thats a nice tweed jacket that guy is wearing They are looking good. Jamie is a bit of a Dab-hand so he might know a thing or two about how to make them look older
Thanks, who says there aren't any true gen'ts in the future ignore his bad hair though, the real ones will be much better. I'm already working on a way of making hairstyles withough horrifically chopping up google images of celebrities.I'm just waiting on some answers now before I get started on it. Infact would you know? you seem to be quite clued up! All I really need to know is what size to make the finished portraits.Age is going to be tough. I'd need a way of superimposing wrinkles without them overlapping things like eyes and lips etc

I'm not entirely sure so I did a little test for you by placing your face in with the dead video widget and trying it at 2 different resoluions and aspect ratio, you will be able to effectively judge the size yourself this way:[attachment=492:pioneer-msvc-9 2011-01-31 03-52-17-74.jpg][attachment=491:pioneer-msvc-9 2011-01-31 03-52-59-70.jpg]As you can see there is stretching on wide-screen resolutions and I'm not sure how to stop that.

Here you go:[attachment=493:pioneer-msvc-9 2011-01-31 04-06-24-14.jpg]Thats resized to 192x240.PM me your email if you want a copy of that version so you can get an idea how they will look in-game.

s2odan wrote:
Thats resized to 192x240.PM me your email if you want a copy of that version so you can get an idea how they will look in-game.
Thanks! I see that there's a bit of space above his head, that means I can show a bit more of their clothing :)Hmm the stretching doesn't look too bad actually. Hopefully there can be something done about it, there may be a way to have the aspect ratio coded in regardless of resolution, but then again, I know nothing about coding.EndifEnd

Just to keep those who care up to date, here are a couple of tests of how it is currently going. I'm now splicing various portraits of people and it's looking a lot better now if I do say so myself I think you'll agree they look older now too!I think you might also agree that the first one looks a bit like the guy from Avatar, and the second one looks a tad like Billy Crystal squinting at the sun. And those that offered their faces up for this project. Here's you chance! Pm me and I'll give you my email so you can send me a piccy <>Also, here's a quick look the animated overlay I'm working on-

Nice work!!

Wow, these look really nice and promising, but could you possibly put in a few women? :DThis is a nice project and I really wouldn't like to feel like in half-life 1 with the only women being ninja-robot-assassins

haha Don't worry women will be worked on shortly. I'm just trying to get my head around the blokes at the moment.I'll add to the sausage fest with a couple more examples -And here's a mix up of some of the ones I've posted so far-

Subzeroplainzero wrote:
aha Don't worry women will be worked on shortly. I'm just trying to get my head around the blokes at the moment.
I'm releaved :DThose new ones look nifty, i just hope that the final versions won't have different sets of eyes and eyebrows :mrgreen:Also, could you possibly not have the male characters not have so shiny lips?

hento wrote:
Those new ones look nifty, i just hope that the final versions won't have different sets of eyes and eyebrows :mrgreen:Also, could you possibly not have the male characters not have so shiny lips?
Will or won't? Unfortunately I think seperating the eyes from the eyebrows will be a problem, as it would cause problems with them overlapping. It will be ok when there are a lot more eye sets though and you shouldn't really see the same ones too often in a row. Hmm thinking about it though.. I could make different versions of each set of eyes with various eyebrows. Thankyou, I'll look into that
hento wrote:

hento wrote:
Also, could you possibly not have the male characters not have so shiny lips?


That is quite a bothersome product of the portraits I'm using which often have a lot of flashy lighting. When they are then added to the somewhat flat toned base face, it gives the effect of shinyness. That's why it would be cool if people could donate some pics of themselves.....you fancy it? The shinyness is annoying me though so I will definitely be trying to reduce it some more on the ones I've done already.

Subzeroplainzero wrote:
Will or won't?
Won't. The left eyebrow being different from the right eyebrow is way too spooky if you ask me But the different eyebrow sets with different eye sets sound nice.
hento wrote:
That's why it would be cool if people could donate some pics of themselves.....you fancy it?
I'm ugly, you don't want my face in the game
Subzeroplainzero wrote:
The shinyness is annoying me though so I will definitely be trying to reduce it some more on the ones I've done already.
You mentioned you're working in photoshop IIRC, you could just add a darkish semi-transparent layer to reduce the shiny effect

There you go. Lips are now de-shinyfied ( I used burn tool to darken the highlights then blended the colours together a bit) and the guys eyebrows now match. Don't know how I didn't notice that! Funny how the eye can choose to ignore certain things it can't be arsed to deal with

that's like at least 10x better now!Keep up the good work

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand a couple more I think they're looking a bit more realistic with practice

Subzeroplainzero wrote:
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand a couple more I think they're looking a bit more realistic with practice
..............................Dad???

Haha it's weird.. the one below your dad looks like my landlord

Do you need a preview tool for seeing how the different images fit together? Or are you managing OK using layers in photoshop?

That's very nice work! The video overlay even gives a slight illusion of animation, but I think it should probably be turned down a bit.