Lizardman

[andrewbuck]

I have been working on the lizardman quite a bit lately and got a skeleton made for it with a walk and idle animation. The lizardman mesh is 430 polygons (about 650 if it was all converted to triangles), and the axe is 55 (most of which are quads). I have made a video of it which I will put up on youtube here. The skin should be good enough for now and should allow everyone to comment on what they like or don't like about the design. If you do make a new skin for it, be warned however that the model has had its seams changed since it was unwrapped to make this one so you will want to unwrap the mesh and then make the new skin.

The skeleton should be good for most of our animation needs, at least for now. I hope to get an attack and some other animations added soon as well so it will have a full set for testing. Let me know what you think about the mesh, the skin, or the skeleton/animations.

Edit: There is a second video here showing the attack animation as well.

-Buck

[charlie]

Perhaps you want to look at this lizard man:
http://opengameart.org/content/rigged-textured-reptile

[TheAncientGoat]

A tad highpoly, methinks. Maybe fit for retopo though

[Danimal]

Andrew the lizarman should close its fist arount the axe handle, and you leave one hand free? i would either give it a two handed axe or a shield.

[Skorpio]

I actually think Andrew's lizardman is quite cute. Of course he needs some more work. I'm not sure whether it's better to use Andrew's low poly as a base mesh for sculpting or to retopo the other lizardman from OGA. I don't really like the texture of the high poly lizardman, I think it's too dark, but the normal map is nice. Also, why doesn't he have a tail? A lizardman must have a tail!

PS: I didn't have much time to work on OD, have some trouble with the apartment (a leak in a water pipe near my PC).

[svenskmand]

I have been working on the lizardman quite a bit lately and got a skeleton made for it with a walk and idle animation. The lizardman mesh is 430 polygons (about 650 if it was all converted to triangles), and the axe is 55 (most of which are quads). I have made a video of it which I will put up on youtube here. The skin should be good enough for now and should allow everyone to comment on what they like or don't like about the design. If you do make a new skin for it, be warned however that the model has had its seams changed since it was unwrapped to make this one so you will want to unwrap the mesh and then make the new skin.

The skeleton should be good for most of our animation needs, at least for now. I hope to get an attack and some other animations added soon as well so it will have a full set for testing. Let me know what you think about the mesh, the skin, or the skeleton/animations.

Edit: There is a second video here showing the attack animation as well.

-Buck

I like your animations in the first video. The attach looks a bit dull. The swing should be more rotation so it is not just horizontal.

Perhaps you want to look at this lizard man:
http://opengameart.org/content/rigged-textured-reptile

Nice one

[Skorpio]

I'm working on a high poly version of Andrew's lizardman. The shape is almost done, hands, feet and muscles have to be refined a little bit, and for the mesostructure of the skin I'll probably just paint a bumpmap. I know I could have used the lizardman from OGA as well, but I guess the amount of work to make him usable for OD would have been similar.

[svenskmand]

Cool Nice work Skorpio

[Skorpio]

The high poly version and textures of the lizardman are complete. Now I have to retopo it and bake the textures, and I need to fix some things in the bump map. I was slightly inspired by Lurchi when I painted the diffuse map (actually more by tigers).

[StefanP.MUC]

Now this looks great.

[svenskmand]

Awesome stuff He might be a good mercenary

[TheAncientGoat]

Or dungeon creature... Or just a creature, that could be assigned alignment values :P

[svenskmand]

We ditched the alignment system for the factions with keeper skills and experience system, which is better.

[charlie]

d-(^_^)-b

I like this!

[Skorpio]

I'm done with retopo and baking, and there's almost no difference to the high poly version. Now he needs a rig and animations.

[andrewbuck]

The lizardman already has a skeleton, wouldn't you use that for the high-poly version as well as they should be the same basic size/shape?

-Buck

[Skorpio]

Yes, I'll use the skeleton of the low poly lizardman, but because I scaled the high poly I'll have to modify it a little bit. Didn't have time to work on it yet. BTW how big should the model be? I think it would look good, if he had about the size of the knight.

[andrewbuck]

Yeah, I was thinking a bit shorter than the knight. Overall the creature should have about the body mass of the knight but since it has a tail I would make it a bit shorter.

-Buck

[farcodev]

the lizardman is impressive, good work !!

[Skorpio]

Thanks. The lizardman is rigged now, but I still got to tweak the skeleton or the mesh a little bit, because I don't like how the arms are deformed.