New Icons!

[Uatu]

Hmm... Interesting! Here in Japan, I think a program called Shade is the big one... not quite sure, though (its price has kept me far, far away from trying it!)

[Ziroc]

Originally Posted by Uatu Ha ha, actually, I had decided to never do another dragon again... but then I went and did one. Gold dragons don't have wings (or didn't appear to in 1e), which helped, though. Dragons take too darn long to do... Too bad about 3DS Max not being free! What is the de-facto standard 3D art software around (i.e. the Photoshop of 3D)? What is the de-facto FREE 3D art software, if there is one?

3DMax and Maya are the two standards in game design these days.. But most game designers use Max, so I went that way..

BTW, Man, 3DSMax has loads of Organic features--but for REALLY cool organic feature sets, the king currently is Zbrush.

[manikus]

I'm sure Max is awesome (it better be with that price tag ), it's just that the community that I'm in leans toward Carrera, though Z-Brush comes up quite a bit too.

[Uatu]

Hmmm... There seems to be so much 3D software, it is hard to decide what really to start working with (plus, I can't actually BUY anything - my wife will kew me )

What's the best free software? Something that can save in various standard formats would be nice.

[manikus]

I like Wings3D, but I haven't done too much with it yet. Truespace and Blender have a much steeper learning curve and I never got past it far enough to do anything with either of those two.
I know that Ziroc used Truespace, so maybe he knows enough to get you over the hump if that's the route you want to go.

I just remembered that there is a free version of 3DS Max called G-Max which was designed to be used to mod games. Ziroc might know more on this. I have used this on my previous computer but the resource toll was so high I couldn't really do anything in a timely manner. (That was an old system running at 900MHz with only 128MB of RAM.)

[Uatu]

Hmm - a free version of 3DS Max sounds good to me, if there is one! Of course, I hope it has enough functions usable to still be useful (saving files, etc.)...

[manikus]

I just saw your latest batch of icons - amazing. I don't know what a boobrie is per se, but I will find out. Also, that efreet rocks and now I must construct some type of fiery place for him to wreak havoc in.

I think I may have posted about your gold dragon in another thread, perhaps even in another forum, but I want to say again, fantastic job. That is perhaps the single most magnificent piece of DC art to date.

[Uatu]

Ha ha... The boobrie is just one of those old 1e creatures that was put in the backseat in 2e (no pictures in the monstrous compendiums!), so I wanted to know what one looked like... (This is the reason for making many of my icons...)

I don't know why I made the efreet, but I like it I want to make a fiery place, too! But other walls go first...

Thanks about the gold dragon - yeah, I think it is my favorite, too. The gold scales really make it look good, as well as the few highlights of other colors (such as the reddish horns). He tends to get stuck if your battle area is not big enough, though! I guess he won't be able to move at all outside...

Huge icons are a tiring undertaking (gold dragon was 2 weeks+), though, so I'm not sure I will go through it again...

[manikus]

The mantas and crystals are very nice.

[Uatu]

See the other thread for comments on ixitxachitl shadows

Crysmals were also sort of ignored in 2e, I think The 1e description is a bit cooky, though...