You know, I actually love these models. They are very clearly in an anime/chibi style which I\'m not sure fits the game\'s aesthetic, as well as textured to be of a more sleek and flashy mecha sci-fi universe, but besides that I think they\'re excellent. Perhaps inspiring even. It helps that you did an excellent job on the texture as well as the model.
(I could nitpick about the efficiency of the arrangement of the UV map but that could always be adjusted.)
I am always a supporter of modding and giving the community options, options and more options. The process of getting models ingame isn\'t as easy as I wish it could be as it creates a bottleneck for modding, especially for things with large numbers of animations. (Such as players.) I obviously have a lot on my plate at the moment, but feel free to PM me to talk about models and animation. I\'m enough of a fan of this model that when I have time I could probably help get it exported in a format the game accepts with a full set of animations.
That\'d no doubt please quite a crowd of people, and I\'d have no problem if lots of people wind up using your modded model instead of my own when playing. I\'m an avid modder of a wide variety of games myself. The only major problem I can easily foresee would be some skins meant for this model and others for the default model, splitting the skinning community.
In a way, you could say my model, the upcoming new official player model, is intentionally designed to be dull. Earlier iterations had more detail and defined silhouettes, but that proved to not be what Schema wanted. The incredible simplicity of my model has the one major benefit of allowing the texture/skin to define the look, not the shape. It\'s plain and dull by design; it\'s the community that will give it life, and its generic shape assures utmost versatility in a wide variety of circumstances, including both community skinning and ingame animation. It actually felt rather awkward making a model with so little detail and contour; I\'m used to so much more detail.
But hey, Xeno, great work.
Your little chibi models are stylish, sexy and an interesting new take on what the StarMade player could be. If you want me to work with you on getting it ingame sometime, let me know. (Because I\'d like to see it ingame myself!) On the other hand, I might just enjoy talking about modeling, animating and texturing with you. Send me a PM if you want to talk.
If any of the rest of you would like to see this as a downloadable mod, let us know your support. (In this thread. No need to try to \"spread the news\" if he\'s already in direct contact with me.) I can\'t promise anything regarding the model, but it\'s always nice to get the opinions of the community.
