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A VERY VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR SERIOUS SPIRAL SPY USERS
New updates of Spiral Knights have rendered a lot of model textures incompatible with Spiral Spy, I have a temporary solution and am working on a more permanent one right now, get the temporary one to fix model walls here:
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/31275?page=5#comment-619070
I'm currently in the process of setting up a webpage to showcase both mines and others Spiral Spy fan work, and to help others in the usage of the Spiral Spy program, it's not much at the moment but that should change with time.
My rapidly growing but still rather empty tumblr page
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The Works of Happyapathy, "The Lone Gunner"
First of all some personal info, my IGN is Happyapathy, I'm an unapologetic gunner with far too many guns, and I am forever guild-less, why? BECAUSE I CAN. All sending me a guild offer does is tell me that a person doesn't know me or what I do. Despite this I am very well connected (most well connected non-guildy in SK :D) and am quite easy to friend unless you behave like a complete jerk or send me a friend request without even saying hi at least. So there you go...
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You may be aware that a while ago a program called "Spiral Spy" was posted by Spiral-Spy as a way for people to preview gear/accessories before they actually got it, the thing also shows a lot of unseen content but your not allowed to talk about that on the forum (if you encounter me in game you ask ;) ).
Spiral Spy 1.2 - Read up on and download Spiral Spy v1.2 here
Spiral-Spy's Blog - Feed Spiral Spy's ego here on his blog, he deserves it
Spiral Snipes - Put here cause I don't like having to always dig around the forum for this
Anyways some people experimented around and found that it could be used to create convincing game-like scenes, I decided to give a serious shot at it and REALLY got into it. The program is a v1.2, which means it is VERY VERY easy to crash so it took about a dozen crashes and then some before I started to figure things out.
I actually found out there is A LOT you can do given a bit of time and some basic knowledge of 3D graph plotting. I could probably come up with some pretty fantastic scenes in the future, and I sure hope Spiral-Spy is still around cause there is a lot of potential in what he made, more so then just as a preview tool for accessories. I would love to see what a future, less crashable, version would be like :)
Just so you know, working with this program is like building sand castles cause the only way you can create a new scene is by deleting everything from the previous one, so all your work is eventually destroyed much like how the rising ocean tide will sweep away creations made in sand, so if your wondering why it seems I went overboard on screenshot its because I can NEVER recreate these scenes again as they were. Believe me I've tried all sorts of wacky ways to save work and so far I haven't found one that works.
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The guide here is REALLY badly outdated, to be honest you would probably learn more by reading through my thread here then from it, its a good place to get started still. Spiral Spy has a pretty steep learning curve to get to a point where you fully understand it and making scenes does become tedious at times but I find it worth it.
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To people who want to request a scene:
It turns out I'm REALLY BAD at doing requests as I tend to put them off in favor of my own personal projects, as such I apologize to anyone who requested something and has still yet to see it made, but I'm not promising I'll be doing them anytime soon. While I'm not saying I won't take requests or suggestions, if you want to have a particular scene made you are likely to have more success asking someone else as I'm a rather fickle artist who likes to work on what I want to versus what people ask for.
----------------------------------------------------------EpicFail: SK Funnies
Working on a slightly different vein of scenes to create comic like sequences:
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An ongoing FanComic I'm working on that is becoming a huge long term project for both me and others.
========================Downloadable content *UPDATED*========================
All downloads are now located on my tumblr page and can be obtained there.
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Finished Scenes (in order of oldest to newest)
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My first scene featuring my own character:
happyapathy1
happyapathy2
happyapathy3
happyapathy4
happyapathy5
happyapathy6
what the whole thing actually looks like
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Now for a much more MANLY scene:
snipelove1
snipelove2
snipelove3
snipelove4
snipelove5
snipelove6
snipelove7
snipelove8
overall picture
If you can actually find a player that looks like this and give me a screenshot and username I would like to meet him/her :)
As a note of interest, you actually can't sit like that in game, I had to make some 'adjustments' to get that to work
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I made this in about an hour
IN YOUR FACE VARA!!
facevara1
facevara2
facevara3
facevara4
Don't you wish you could actually do this in game :P
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SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND, AND HIS LITTLE FRIEND!!
My Little Friend 1
My Little Friend 2
My Little Friend 3
My Little Friend 4
My Little Friend 5
My Little Friend 6
I really like the way this one came out, took just over an hour to make, you don't realize how fat those snipes are until you try to place one on your shoulder, THEIR HUGE! If anyone wants a scene like this of them ask me and I'll look into it.
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This scene is dedicated to Chezi, Casun, and Crazybitz, who took me on my first ever shadow lair run and brought me back up alive on the other side, may they force every member from their respective guilds to come look at this so they may gloat about it :P (P.S. Yes Chezi, wolver tail accessories really do exist).
On a note about the making of the scene itself, this thing, in my opinion, is a master piece of Spiral Spy work, a lot went into making this particular scene with so many characters each with their own unique animation setup requiring multiple copies of model files to make it work, also the work with the lighting (or more like the lack of lighting) and ambient effects is something I really pushed here, a lot of what I know went into getting this scene to work, a pity since the second I close Spiral Spy all the animation settings get wiped and everyone goes back to idly staring stupidly into the distance :/
The scene is based on actual gear that was worn at the time, I'm sorry to you guys if you would have rather worn something else if you knew I was going to make this into an art piece :D
The best title I could think of for this was the one word that got repeated a lot in the Unknown Passage...
RUN
run1
run2
run3
run4
run5
run6
run7
run8
run9
run10
run11
run12
Chezi
Casun
Craybitz
some smuck
This shot from behind really makes me regret not adding the exit elevator ahead of us, I wasn't intending to look at it from this angle but it looked good enough that I screenshot it anyways:
I'm going to post the scene file for Spiral Spy here so people can upload it and maybe get an idea of what I did, although chances are Spiral Spy will explode if you try to use it as I used a number of custom files to make this thing work, plus all the animation work will be lost and everything will be reset to idle even if it does work:
http://www.mediafire.com/?h332pbfgkf89uh6
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I've never actually tried a knight vs. knight seen and decided to give it a whirl, to be honest I only halfheartedly made this one, I prefer working with mobs of monsters more.
Duel1
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duel2
duel3
duel4
duel5
duel6
duel7
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This one here is the result of some experimentation with animation priority to try and create new poses by having one animation "override" another one, I sadly was unable to create the desired two-handed "dragon slayer" pose as there aren't that many motions which bring both hands together, the closest thing I could find was the clap emote which proved to be utterly useless.
The pose I use here is an odd combination of the 'fall recovery' and 'charged pistol hold' animation for the knight.
Fall of Troy (Name seemed appropriate)
falloftroy1
falloftroy2
falloftroy3
falloftroy4
falloftroy5
falloftroy6
falloftroy7
I also tried some Photoshop work with one of the images here.
I swear I've seen this particular knight before...
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This scene here was created with the modest purpose of saying, "hey, look I managed to put in gun each hand", then I decided to add bullets, then bullet shells, modesty was blown out the window when I decided to put the (still) nameless snipe in and was dead before it hit the ground when I decided to give my snipe the second kid-sized Blitz gun.
Death of Modesty
deathofmodesty1
deathofmodesty2
deathofmodesty3
deathofmodesty4
deathofmodesty5
deathofmodesty6
deathofmodesty7
deathofmodesty8
deathofmodesty9
deathofmodesty10
deathofmodesty11
deathofmodesty12
deathofmodesty13
I choose a few out of these to add some Photoshop effects too:
deathofmodesty3-edited
deathofmodesty4-edited
deathofmodesty13-edited
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Dual Duo Femme Fatale
Yeah, I'd be running too...
That's an interesting set of weapons the yellow knight is wielding...
Overall-scene views:
Focus-Scene Gallery
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scene2
scene3
scene4
scene5
scene6
scene7
scene8
scene9
scene10
scene11
scene12
scene13
scene14
scene15
scene16
Eve views:
Focus-Eve Gallery
Nekomi views:
Focus-Nekomi Gallery
Nekomi1
Nekomi2
Nekomi3
Nekomi4
Nekomi5
Nekomi6
Nekomi7
Nekomi8
Nekomi9
Nekomi10
Short Dual wield videos:
Whirling Dervish Eve
Kat Scratch
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====ALL ABOUT NEKOMI====
I'm hoping there are more then a few people who are wondering how I made her well not to worry. Though I probably don't have the capabilities to copyright characters I'm going to go and ahead and declare Nekomi an open source character:
DOWNLOAD THE KAT LADY (kit pieces, some assembly required)
DOWNLOAD THE KAT LADY (fully assembled and optimized)
These folders are what I call "Character Sets/Profiles", each folder contains all the necessary files and instructions to recreate a character, in here you will find my own character as a basic guideline and Nekomi's more complex instructions including recoloring and attachments , they also contain a folder for her possible pet Kleptolisk 'Kleft'. All files can be used directly from the folder in Spiral Spy without been moved or renamed, just put the Character_sets folder in the rsrc folder.
I have a similar folder for other characters, such as Eve, but I think I will be keeping those for myself right now.
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So what do I think of Nekomi? Well as I've said I intend for her to be a stealthy thief type, beyond that personality has not really been established.
A note about those claws, they have an interesting unintentional safety feature that they will rise and lower depending on if her hands are opened or fisted, this would allow free hand movement without having to worry about cutting herself so much:
I also imagined that if she ever appeared in game she would be able to launch rapid 3 way mini-spur shots from each claw :P
Despite the hand claws, shes actually still able to wield the traditional sword/gun and shield:
However if you ask me she doesn't look like the type to hide behind a shield for defense, I'd like to think she has other ways of dealing with danger:
Defense1
Defense2
Defense3
Defense4
I'd also like to think that tail she has wasn't an accessory :)
I've considered having a pet Kleptolisk for her named 'Kleft', a gadget totting lizard that is 40% smaller then other kleptos, will see.
I would love to see any art, or even fan-fiction, involving her, I may even give some CE if I really like it. She's free for you to do what you wish with her, just treat her well :).
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Introducing the iPwn "handgun"
First some pics:
Videos of it in action:
Too much awesome sauce
Taking it up a notch
At 25% speed
You may now pick your jaw off the floor, does make me wish Spiral Spy had some movie making capabilities now :P
It's so beautiful...
I wish I now had my own OP 6 star Autogun , the fact I will never actually have a weapon like this makes me weep :'(
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The Lich King Cometh
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Based off of this picture by Incoherrant
Here's one of the best parts about this scene:
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The Spiral Spy Crew
The characters who make all these scenes possible:
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Updated Mecha Model
Haven't made anything new in a while, but I did take time to redo the mystery mechas from the prologue of 'Embrace the Dark'
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SPIRAL SPY WORK BY OTHER PEOPLE
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As more people learn how to use this program I expect my monopoly on it to dwindle :P, here are some scenes that other people have created and posted here:
By Romsanta
http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd463/aavb132/snapshot08.png
http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd463/aavb132/snapshot09.png
http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd463/aavb132/snapshot10.png
http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd463/aavb132/snapshot11.png
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I made Cherub, Ian McConville's (lead art Dev) character.
From the Front
Right Profile
Left Profile
3/4 From Behind
Another from Behind
Finally, the environment file containing Cherub
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These are a series of images which are now rendered incomplete due to the program crashing. Also, the white knight shouldn't have had a halo at the beginning.
http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd463/aavb132/snapshot17.png
http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd463/aavb132/snapshot18.png
http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd463/aavb132/snapshot19.png
http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd463/aavb132/snapshot20.png
http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd463/aavb132/snapshot21.png
http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd463/aavb132/snapshot22.png
http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd463/aavb132/snapshot23.png
I liked number 17 and 21 the most.
If anyone thinks they can take a crack at finishing the scene, here is the environment and some instructions/notes on how ot do it. I think I tried to render too much [crap] (0ver 100 elements in this one) and now spiralspy wont load it.
instructions/notes: http://www.mediafire.com/?olit8k1049gzxel
environment: http://www.mediafire.com/?4y87x0x5vz09sxc
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By Bulby
http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa460/CaptainCool537/ZekielvsMechak…
http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa460/CaptainCool537/All-Stars.png
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By Isenfir
http://s1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb349/ProjectRay/Spiral%20Knights/S…
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Everyone's favorite cat Lady, and some not to happy cats?
http://s1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb349/ProjectRay/Spiral%20Knights/S…
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For Ndognine:
http://s1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb349/ProjectRay/Spiral%20Knights/S…
http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy5/Ndog921/CursedBackroundIpod.png
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By Atrumvindex
Levi Promo pic: http://www.imagebam.com/image/da7a0c160928610
Vanaduke young: http://www.imagebam.com/image/ab8e30160928616
Winterfest: http://www.imagebam.com/image/589aa2168534481
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By Smashcraft
They say plagiarism is the greatest form of flattery:
http://i746.photobucket.com/albums/xx104/Essaych/SprayPray.jpg
http://i746.photobucket.com/albums/xx104/Essaych/SprayPray2.jpg
http://i746.photobucket.com/albums/xx104/Essaych/SprayPray3.jpg
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By Windsickle
At Long Last, for Happyapathy:
http://spiral.onyxbits.de/node/56
http://spiral.onyxbits.de/node/55
There are four more on the site if you want to find out what it is.
NOTE: If your wondering this was made in response to when I was feverishly searching for an elusive TV prop in the SK files
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By Draykon
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Storm the Fallen (STF), which is my guild:
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By Fallenhope
http://s1186.photobucket.com/albums/z369/fallen_h0pe/
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By Lupinn
I just saw this and I thought I might as well post some of the pics I've made so far.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/xairathan/Who_took_Lupinn/ThatSnipeis...
http://media.photobucket.com/image/xairathan/Who_took_Lupinn/Snoozin.png...
http://media.photobucket.com/image/draco-draco/Who_took_Lupinn/Draco-Dra...
http://s1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa370/Who_took_Lupinn/?action=view&c...
Hope you guys like it!
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By Scarred-Knight (IGN: Ailment) <-- You need your own thread man ;)
A character based off of a fan-fic I created some time ago (not SK related, although I did have a version...but I don't plan on submitting it anytime soon). As to how I created him, I had to redo a lot of textures (Chaos Series, Nightblade, redo poison drippings to look like blood, default grey striker added blood), stuck some blades on his back, some sword sheaths on his hips, and finally some blades attached to his feet. The first picture is a basic introduction, his name, and his general look. The rest are him dueling with another character I created.
Introduction
Duel Scene One
Duel Scene Two/a>
Duel Scene Three
Duel Scene Four
Secondly, another character based off of the same fan-fic, although this time I give no name, since atm it would not make sense (not that Solarion makes much sense either, but...). Slightly inspired by the mini-gun Happyapathy created, I kinda made my own version based off of what this character could do. Thus I present what appears to be the first ever, hand "mini-gun".
Next, I bring forth a bunch of images showing what one can do when they know how to edit textures. These are edits of both the Vog Cub and the Skolver in a way that I thought would be more beneficial to the look. Skolver is a little broken, and Vog Cub could be refined a bit, but for the most part they are both "done".
Vog Cub Front
Vog Cub Back
Skolver Front
Skolver Back
Also, these do work in game, and to prove it, here is a video I took of myself when I changed the Vog Cub texture, into something completely different.
That's not how your suppose to blend in!
Finally, a scene I recently completed inspired by the run of UFSC I completed a couple nights ago with Happyapathy, Culture, and Vcat. This scene comes in 4 forms, the original, and some Photoshop edits.
Original
Cutout
Slight pencil strokes + darken
Poster + darken
Thats all I have to show for now. The artwork that is coming from this model viewer is simply incredible, and continues to get better as time progresses.
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Note: If your an artist who just wants a picture of a 3D model to work off of for your own Fan Art, provided its not something to big I can probably quickly whip up a temporary model in whatever larger project I happen to be working on and take screenshots of them for you, just ask and I'll see what I can do.
All comments and suggestions are appreciated.
Well here's a first, I've uploaded a file containing all the custom eyes I've created, follow the instructions in there and you'll be making expressions in no time!
i have tried to redo some of these themes on my own i have done the "hello to my little friend... and his litlle friend" and the snipe one :D i can upload them i willl put up links in a few minutes :D
oh and one question.... why are they always .zip :C i can't open them please at LEAST post a link for a zip reader :S? thats free of course ;D please that would be nice... and i am trying to make a "kenomi" :D i have'nt opened one of ur zip files though :O
http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l536/Enigmatic-Meow/snipey.png
http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l536/Enigmatic-Meow/snipey2.png
http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l536/Enigmatic-Meow/snipey3.png
http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l536/Enigmatic-Meow/snipey4.png
http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l536/Enigmatic-Meow/THETeam.png
http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l536/Enigmatic-Meow/THETeam2.png
http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l536/Enigmatic-Meow/THETeam3.png
http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l536/Enigmatic-Meow/THETeam4.png
http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l536/Enigmatic-Meow/AWESOMENESS.png
That was all day.... because it took me that long on how to learn to sit >.< the answer was right in front of me in a .notepad format XD lols well cya l8er
Happy Spiral spying ;D Seeleo!
i can't figure out how to edit the armor and such with more than one choice like i go to edit but theres no "New model" button :O help>???
I AM ALMOST DONE MY NEKOMI! and then i has to do kleft :O sigh back to work....
how to stick the claws to armor i do attack (sword 3) and they don't stick to armor :O
I dont really want a plain background, I'm not really sure what I want, so just do what you think looks good.
My personal color is red, sorry I forgot that ><
Here's a preview Ndognine. Please tell me what you think. I would like you to check it over to make sure I didn't make any mistakes, see how you like the background, etc. before I post all their various views.
2 words:
bad ass
love it dude ^_^
only mistake I see is that you put a fancy side blade, I have a parrying blade :P
I see. That can be quickly remedied.
Sorry, i realized that I already had a character in mind and I can't do three at once! Ignore this post!
Ok. They're finished now Ndognine.
http://spiral.onyxbits.de/node/316
http://spiral.onyxbits.de/node/318
http://spiral.onyxbits.de/node/317
http://spiral.onyxbits.de/node/319
http://spiral.onyxbits.de/node/320
http://spiral.onyxbits.de/node/321
http://spiral.onyxbits.de/node/322
Multiple views just like you asked. Tell me what you think.
it just makes the face white when i change it. can i have some help on this?
i talked with someone who said it was working so I can't quite figure out what could be wrong for you, you try all the faces? Where are you making the change exactly? Not sure if it matters or not but do you use a mac or pc?
I figured it out so they work now, thanks for checking though
yo...can i have like a manual one done for me? i can't open .zip : ,
or suggest me a free .zip opener?
WHY THE HECK DOES'NT THE CHARACTER PACK WORK?????
ok i did the instructions on the note and.... it didn't work... *sigh*
ok. i can do the recolor thing but whats the bip01 R thingy????
sorry for spamming, bye what i thought was good threads :C
@ Windsickle
omg, sorry dude i totally forgot to thank you ><...so THANKS!!! looks awesome :D
@Seeleo:
Please EDIT your post instead of posting 4 times in a row
could someone make me a model of my character doing something epic? :3
Like maybe doing Shadow Lair alongside Happy?
Stuffs: Miracle Hood with heavy vertical vents,Skolver Coat(you can put wings if you want),Wise Owlite Shield, Divine Avenger?
(you can put me in any scene you want if the one i suggested is too complex :U)
@Altos: I'll keep it in mind, but I made a note about me and requests in the OP and your probably quite aware I'm busy with a large project in Spiral Spy already, and I'm about to show another one I've been working on.
Well here's something I've been hinting I've been working on for a bit, like when I said...
"I've already thought of 3 more such custom characters already, two of which I already know I will make eventually, expect them to be outrageously well armed :D"
"I've been mainly focusing on character design more then actual scene building, the result is a whole lot of spectacular looking custom characters..."
"...next few Spiral Spy scenes I intend to do will essentially be a showcase of what I can do with character design (you'll be surprised)..."
This began soon after my large post on attachments a while back, since then I've been creating custom characters and trying new ideas and techniques on them, for fun I decided to assign them roles as employees within the supposed Spiral Spy Workshop my character runs (sort of), over the course of a few months I developed quite a few of these characters who I am going to start showcasing now.
Over the course of the next little while I'm going to gradually profile each one with a character description, what gear they use, a short comic about each one, and some technical talk on what it took to make them, I will also post some downloadable files relating to each one (not the full characters though) for other people to use, often more simple objects as using some of the things shown here are rather complex.
I'll also begin casting for my FanComic soon (likely before I'm done profiling all of my characters here) so this is also a show of how far I can take character design, so the possibilities for characters probably just got A LOT bigger now :P.
All I can say about this is that it's truly one of the biggest projects on the forums at the moment and it's awesome. A few questions about characters though, will there be a limit to how many characters are accepted, and are we limited to only making protagonist's?
I'll give out the details when I start casting, but for the most part yes its going to be protagonists, though they don't necessarily have to all be 'nice' people.
I'm not sure how to kick this thing off and don't have time to write out the full details that I want to, for now I'll make due with this short comic:
Meet the Crew: Happyapathy and Eve
A lot more to come soon.
Huh.
This began soon after my large post on attachments a while back, since then I've been creating custom characters and trying new ideas and techniques on them, for fun I decided to assign them roles as employees within the supposed Spiral Spy Workshop my character runs (sort of), over the course of a few months I developed quite a few of these characters who I am going to start showcasing now.
Over the course of the next little while I'm going to gradually profile each one with a character description, what gear they use, a short comic about each one, and some technical talk on what it took to make them, I will also post some downloadable files relating to each one (not the full characters though) for other people to use, often more simple objects as using some of the things shown here are rather complex.
Despite been the owner and director of the workshop Happy spends most of his time watching TV, idly drinking coffee, while leaving most of the work to his secretary Eve and the other employees around the studio.
A master gunman, Happyapathy is skilled in the use of all fire arms and can pull off seemingly impossible shots with ease, however he is hopeless with a sword and is more dangerous to himself and friends then his enemies when wielding one, even sharp kitchen utensils should be kept out of his hands.
The Nameless Snipe
A mysterious snipe who glided into Haven one day on a westerly wind, how he learned to use guns is anyone's guess but what is known is that he is very good with them. From what has been gathered from the strangers he is one badass of a snipe, he shoots straight, hangs out at the toughest bird baths, and does it with the best lady snipes around who find him very charming and manly.
The iPWN-2
The latest iteration of the iPWN minigun series Happy developed for himself, it features 6 barrels to spew out bullets at an even more blindingly speed then the previous version, Happy once tried to bring it into a Lockdown match but everyone quit the second they saw it so King Krogmo banned it from the games.
The six barrels actually rotate like they should on a minigun but the video I have won't upload ;_;
Happy's little iPWN-2 (idle)
Happy's little iPWN-2 (in use)
iPWN-2 angle shots:
Angle 1
Angle 2
Angle 3
Angle 4
Angle 5
Technical Notes
- The iPWN-2 was the first item I created that has a custom animation attached to it, in this case to rotate the 6 barrels constantly
- I created two custom animations for the player when using the minigun, one for idle another when firing
- Happyapathy here, like most of my custom characters, is crafted from a custom made blank player template model that greatly cuts down the amount of extra 'stuff' from the model_level.dat player model file that you often don't use.
Downloadable Gifts 1
Happyapathy's custom blank player template:
This is meant more for advance Spiral Spy users, it is a blank player that I have modified to remove most of the preset animations, and attachment slots from, thus greatly reducing the file size and clutter of it, even when fully decked out in gear it will often still be smaller in file size then the model_level.dat file, thus allowing more objects to be put into the scene before Spiral Spy is overloaded. To use this you will have to know how to add your own animations and attachment slots so you can add on to it as necessary, also knowing how to save models is important too.
Nekomi and Kleft remade for optimization:
As an example I've redone the model for Nekomi and Kleft with as much file size optimization as I could, make note of how I've removed the options to directly change a lot of the settings on the model as these are unlikely to be altered after they are set.
Eve is Happyapthy's ever faithful secretary who actually does a bulk of the work he's supposed to be doing, Happy is quite oblivious to how much she does and she is too humble to ever complain, why she hangs around with a boss who clearly does not deserve her is a mystery.
Underneath her modest demeanor is a truly terrifying master of swords, she is talented in the use of any blade and can fight both in the traditional sword and shield stance, or be a whirlwind of death with dual blades, hand her a proto sword and she'll give you Vanaduke's head (er, mask).
Paige
Eve's assistant snipe, she is often busy flying around delivering memos and letters around the workshop when Eve doesn't have time to do it herself. Rumor from the strangers is that she has something going on with the Nameless Snipe, but this has yet to be confirmed.
Meet the Crew Comic: Happyapathy and Eve
Technical Notes
- Eve was the first custom character I made, that and the 'angel' theme is what contributed to her naming
- She was also the first character to do true dual wielding using attachments
- She's actually an impossible character to make in-game, her eye color differs from her armor
- I may update Eve sometime in the future with a custom texture, like many of my later custom characters
Downloadable Gifts 2
Spiral Clipboard and Coffee Mug
Special coffee and clipboard models I have altered to have a 'knight' variation along with the standard fiend ones, now your knights can look busy with a clipboard, or loafing with a cup of Joe.
...That...was...informative....
And really cool! :D
I think Eve looks awesome; 'Can't touch this' sort of awesome Oo
DUAL WIELDING CIV WTF OMGBRAINEXPLOSIONZ!!!!!! /Bombhead detonates.
But I don't see Eve in the Meet the crew one in your last post, where is she?
Will she ever get to meet WallE and stop being a workaholic long enough to notice him? Ever?
@psycho
which post are you referring too? Eve met Wall-E but mistook him for a scuttlebot and sliced him in half down the middle.
Has anyone tried the downloads? Are they working?
D:
She KILLED him!?
/cry
I didn't try the downloads cuz I'm utterly useless at Spiral Spy.
I can't wait!
Also for the clipboard downloads, where should I save them?
@psycho
It's a comic, you need to go to the next image :P
@Atrumvindex
Just unzip it and put the whole folder in the rsrc folder.
Idiot be idiots be me...
EDIT: I lolled.
Fuseman is in-charge of scene background construction, including tasks such as laying flooring and erecting walls, he has a knack for mechanics and is a superb handyman.
As good as he is at building stuff up, he's also just as good at knocking them down. Fuseman specializes in the use of heavy weapons and bombs, often making use of a custom built grenade launcher or rocket launcher, when he arrives at the scene of a fight expect things to get very loud, then very quiet.
After been shocked one too many times by "friendly" mechaknights, Fuseman got fed up enough that he decided to build his own one that would actually be helpful. The result was Boomer, or technically Boom Bot V4.5 (half of him is built from salvageable components from the V4.0 model), who was constructed from mechaknight pieces Fuseman collected and a few key components he "borrowed" from Bosco's mechaknight (Bosco has yet to notice). Fuseman was even able to find the extremely rare proper left arm and right leg limbs for his mech.
Fuseman was also able to fix the annoying issue of jittering and occasional self shock by replacing the unstable, jury-rigged, Gremlin engine with unstable, jury-rigged, blast bombs. Why he would rather have a mech that could possibly explode instead of one that shocks is a question only he knows the answer to.
While Fuseman has been quite successful replicating his own combat style in Boomer's programming, his attempts at creating a speech modulator that would allow Boomer to say appropriate responses when talked too has been less then successful, especially with the 'appropriate' part. Many of Boomer's programmed responses were downloaded from the Skylark's salvaged movie database resulting in most of Boomer's phrases been quotable one-liner's from the big screen. Boomer's Friend/Foe Recognition is also less then perfect, resulting a number of near tragedies (and leveled buildings) during Halloween and the introduction of Trojan costumes.
Though certainly not as quick or smart as an actual knight, Boomer's greater robotic strength and robustness make him a valuable companion on any adventure, just don't try to start a conversation.
Meet the Crew Comic: Fuseman and Boomer
"Massblast" Grenade Launcher
Designed to use the small blast bombs from the bomb bandolier, these small but potent explosives are loaded manually into the guns chamber from which the user can rapidly launch them. It is particularly effective at dealing with crowds as it can quickly cover a large area with many rapid explosions.
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"Light Bringer" Rocket Launcher
The Light Bringer rocket launcher is a single shot launcher that uses the unfolding-fin rockets fired by rocketpuppies, so ammo can be replenished from salvaging rockets from destroyed turrets. The user is able to use a laser guidance system to track targets or can fire dumb shots that just go in a straight path. It is meant to be used against large heavy targets such as Trojans or lumbers. For solo user the launcher can be loaded with a rocket been inserted directly down the tube, however it can also be loaded from the rear end by a two-man team to greatly increase its rate of fire.
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Overview
Technical Notes
Fuseman:
- What makes Fuseman, 'Fuseman', is his bad-ass helmet, it's actually two helmets layered on top of each other which I explain in this very detailed diagram
- I wanted to put a bomb bandolier on Fuseman, however it clashed badly with the Guardian armor he wears, in the end I decided to go with the armor instead of the bandolier
- I always imagine he speaks like the Marauder from StarCraft 2
Boomer:
- Boomer's model is actually fairly complex, its the torso of a mechaknight attached to the limbs of a knight from both of which I removed the texture from the respective parts that I didn't want to be shown, so what your seeing is like some weird conjoined twin of two separate entities bound to each other, as such to animate him involves having to setup two animations, one for his limbs one for his head and body, and have them both run at the same time to look like they are one
Grenade and rocket launcher:
- You can probably tell they are made up of various pieces from other weapons and props that I have re-textured and attached together, see if you can figure out where each piece came from
- The rocket launcher is actually a less complex model then the grenade launcher
- Ideally the rocket launcher would be a two handed weapon but there aren't any animations (or animation combos) that give a good pose for that, as such its a one handed weapon and maybe is just a lot lighter then it looks :/
- The rocket launcher has some collision issues with the knights head and the rockets are actually slightly too big for it, making the launcher any larger would start to make it look ridiculous so please just ignore those facts :P
- I made two custom animations for the player when firing these weapons
Downloadable Gifts 3
"Light Bringer" Rocket Launcher
Guaranteed to increase your knight's badassness by 200% regardless of whatever else they have on, comes with free rockets and rocket firing animation.
The downloads in sk have the black and red worded texture....
Wow, the whole crew. Those guns are wicked. For Boomer, why didn't you just slap a re-colored Mercurial Demo Helm on a Knight body, and then add assorted Mecha pieces?
@Atrumvindex
if you can try re-applying the textures again through the edit panel, it may just need to be re-pathed.
@Windsickle
I think it's more interesting for him to clearly be a mech if you ask me, plus i already kinda did the reverse for that sword enemy in my fanfic :P
Haha, wow, thanks for that Capsule-pit, I love it!
I don't go on the forums as much as I play the game, so it took me a bit of searching to find this topic again, but yeah, looks great.
I can see an Explosioncube in the pit, and an invisible Chromalisk.
@Guitarknight: There are a couple more things that don't belong.
Impostocube at the starting platform.
That's all I got.
Now for my jackers of Lumbers.
http://spiral.onyxbits.de/node/330
http://spiral.onyxbits.de/node/331
http://spiral.onyxbits.de/node/332
http://spiral.onyxbits.de/node/333
WHAM! WHAM! CHOP!
actually I just grabbed the rsrc folder from the test server folder and there are A LOT of interesting things in there, enough to make me reconsider how I plan to do certain parts of the FanComic I'm doing. There's a lot of new stuff, especially for the gremlin's and I'm quite eager to play around with it. Crew NPC's also look good and they have added a lot of different eye expressions to work with now.
That said I'm quite irritated to not see any changes to the gunslinger hats and got very excited with something I saw in the handgun folder then got very disappointed when I put it in Spiral Spy. Hopefully OOO will bother to change the gunslinger hats by the time the mission update happens.
Milly showed up out the blue one day with a tray of baked goodies for everyone, nobodies sure where she came from or knew her from before but since then she regularly pops in and out of the workshop, and she always brings something of interest back with her. Though technically not employed, Milly's roles can be described as 'specialty prop acquirer', 'beast wrangler', and heavy lifting.
When Milly shows up she's usually doing so too show off her latest 'toy', often a large object that she found god-knows-where in the clockworks, however she often quickly becomes bored of it and runs off to find something else to play with, leaving said object for use in the workshop, such as a 200 foot tall Gunpuppy statue Happyapathy has yet to find a use for (see earlier comic). When she finds something she wants nothing stops her from getting it.
Milly is also always 'adopting' so-called pets which often don't last very long due to her excruciating loving attention, her 'cuddle wuddles' and 'huggy wuggies' often turn into death squeezes and her idea of a walk is dragging along the poor creature behind her while running at full speed, snipes have learned to flee at the sight of her when she comes skipping along. The few creatures that do survive often do so by bolting the moment she is distracted by some other cute adorable critter, the workshop has made use of this by having open pens and cages ready as many of them are quite happy to be safely locked away from her. Often she'll quickly forget about her previous pet and go off in search of new victims/friends to take care of.
Milly's girlish demeanor and love of all things pink and/or fluffy is completely at odds with her unholy strength and complete lack of moral ethics. While she has no formal training to base her combat effectiveness on that would prove to be a fatal mistake, if there is one thing she loves more then pink flowers and ponies it's pounding foes into the ground using obscenely large and malicious weapons, a single swing from her can wipe out swathes of foes while she giggles in delight, her combat style is often just as hazardous to her allies as it is to her foes as she has no regard for collateral damage. The longer a fight goes on the more her true nature starts to show as she enters a 'berserk' state where she starts smashing everything, often with the other knights in the group cowering like frightened children in a corner somewhere.
This happened while making this comic and I thought it funny enough to show: Clicky
P.S. Her cooking is excellent, just don't ask for recipes..
Giant Axe
It's a great big axe, what more can I say?
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Grim (Shadow Troika)
The evil resonating from this sword causes most people's hands to decay and fall off if they grab the handle, Milly swings it around with ease as though it were made for her, perhaps it was, the power she strikes with this is earth shattering and releases waves of dark energy that tear through the living like sharpened knives, her use of it is often described as 'overkill'.
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It's a Mad Mad Milly
It's very hard to make Milly truly angry, few people have seen her so, even fewer have lived to tell about it, those who do all agree on one thing, it is a VERY VERY bad idea.
That poor recon just wouldn't hold still...
Technical Notes
- Milly's weapons have a size adjusting animation applied to them similar to the one used to change the height of knights, this way they are always automatically re-sized to the correct scale
- I originally wanted Milly chopping up lumbers for the Giant Axe image, however it turns out the lumber's body shares a lot of texture mapping with its legs, so erasing part of the upper body would cause part of the legs to disappear too
- You can't find Milly's demon (er, dragon) wings anywhere in game
Downloadable Gifts 4
Battle Axe
While the Giant Axe is the sole property of Milly, I've put a smaller version here for use by lesser mortals for when they feel like butchering their foes barbarian style, I've also included some instructions to fix some texture and pathing problems I heard people are having with my previous downloads, please tell me if they work.
Dude......
I died.
Truly awesome. And I just remembered I have somewhere to be. Goodbye. *
anyone tried the download, do the instructions work?
Awesome work as always Happy ^_^
Haven't tried the download cause I'm on my iPod, but is there and chance you could upload that shadow Troika? I almost want to make one and use that as a reskin...Though normal size may be better for that xD
happy how do you select certain parts of models and mix them with that? I've been toying with it and I can make weird mixes within new models with two overlapping sets of armor (kind of like fusemans helm) and some sets with "parts" files like the almirion shoulder attached to a skolver coat. But how do you make someone like boomer? function with active animations?
