New Icons!

[Uatu]

New huge icon at my Dungeon Craft art site! (Hint: it's the biggest NPC so far, as far as I know...)

Also, various smaller icons, including a sahuagin (sort of modelled in between the old 1st edition and 2nd edition designs), kuo-toa, and duergar (gray) dwarf.

(I used to announce changes on the other forum, but since it is mostly dead, and this forum is cooler, I am officially moving... )

For those of you who don't know already, my site is here:
http://two.xthost.info/uatu/

The more visitors the more often, the better, since this particular host deletes entire sites if noone has visited them for a week! Help save my site from suddenly disappearing!

[Ziroc]

WOW! That's some of the best DC Art I've seen!! Very nice, and damn, I didn't have a link for you on the IW DC Site--but that's changed! I added ya to the links area.

Damn man, I gotta get back into DC! I've learned tons since I has worked on it, and I think I will make all the new content for 1024x768. You all think that should be the default res? Because I'm working on a crazy BenQ Widescreen now--with a 8800 GTX, and the res is 1900x1200. Kinda sucks, because the 1024 icons are so small now. But no big deal..

Can't wait to see more Edward! Kickass work!! (LOVED the spells and weapon effects and icons the most!)

[Uatu]

Thanks for the kudos, Ziroc! Also, thanks for linking me - that should help keep my site alive :p Updates are sporadic, in waves (right now I am on an "often" wave - I updated just now again, actually... but then I will probably go on a "down" wave... Usually get burned out after a really big icon )

As for 1024 x 768 resolution... I haven't even tried DC this way yet It does make creating art (big pics, small pics) much harder (especially if I will be pixel-drawing the way I am doing now) - and normal 1 x 1 icons will be pretty small. (On the other hand, some of the larger icons will be easier to see, although they are still limited in movement.) At least icons are the same size whatever resolution you use...

Wow, but your monitor is HUGE! DC must look really small...

[Ziroc]

Originally Posted by Uatu Thanks for the kudos, Ziroc! Also, thanks for linking me - that should help keep my site alive :p Updates are sporadic, in waves (right now I am on an "often" wave - I updated just now again, actually... but then I will probably go on a "down" wave... Usually get burned out after a really big icon ) As for 1024 x 768 resolution... I haven't even tried DC this way yet It does make creating art (big pics, small pics) much harder (especially if I will be pixel-drawing the way I am doing now) - and normal 1 x 1 icons will be pretty small. (On the other hand, some of the larger icons will be easier to see, although they are still limited in movement.) At least icons are the same size whatever resolution you use... Wow, but your monitor is HUGE! DC must look really small...

Yeah, that's kinda the downside of having a 24 inch monitor but DC in game handles widescreen fine--looks ok)
Yeah, it does take more to make a icon or whatever at the higher res, but I kinda look at it like there's more room for detail--yeah, I know, that takes waaay more time. I may try 800x600.. we'll see. OR make a 3D Model of a monster, and render it out at all resolutions lol, that might be actually easier (for me).. dunno yet.

Working on a new 'what if' interface graphic right now.

BTW, here is an AVI I made a while back for the Eye of the Beholder looking level I am making in DC (see attachment)
Also, I made an Icon for Dungeon Craft a while back-- attached too.

[Uatu]

Doh! Guess I haven't the right codecs or something, because I can't view that avi file...

3D... I should go and try that sometime again - definitely not my alley right now, so to speak (quite hard to "tweak" things just right - plus, I don't have software!), but it does look fun.

[Ziroc]

Yeah, I use 3DS Max, and it's so awesome--I used trueSpace for a long time--btw, v.3.0 is free now I think!
I am working on a large Hotel project currently, here's a render--its no where near done, no textures, and one half is plain box polys..

[Uatu]

Wow! Looks nice - if 3DS Max is free, maybe I should get a copy, too! (Hope my PC can handle it, though...)

[manikus]

That Gold Dragon is amazing, Uatu. I'm very impressed.

3DS Max is a bit farther away from free than Photoshop is... But there are tons of free applications that work very nicely and many of them on older systems. The two I see being used most often are Blender and Wings3D.

[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?

[manikus]

It depends on what kind of modelling that you are doing, but I think in general, esp. for non-organic, 3DS Max is the program and for figure modeling it is Carrera. As far as the frre programs go, it used to be Blender, but I've seen a lot of people move to Wings3D.
(This is the perspective of a hobbyist about other hobbyists and professionals in the field of selling models, not of cgi animators.)