New Valis Skin

Ðarth Arken

I figured we should probably change up the Valis skin in order to avoid too much copying from JAWA, but also to cater to we Sith more.

I did a basic recolor for now. Thoughts?

I mentioned before that it would be really cool if we made the Valis a ghost since we're using Sith Sanctuary now. But what model/skin should we use if we do?

Cyrus

that's really sick good job Grin

Ðarth Apocalypse

That's awesome, a ghost would be kinda cool too but I do like that red look.

Ðarth Martyr

Looks good, I don't like Kel-Dors but it works lol.

Sidarious

Amazing job! I agree a ghost would be cool. I'm not sure what model to use however.

Ðarth Arken

Yeah, I'll see about making a ghost skin.

We thought it would be cool and funny to have it be Darth Cerberus' ghost since he's gone, but he used the Solid Snake skin so that would be weird. I suppose I could just find a cool Sith looking model and we could just call it Cerberus. Tongue

Ruxith

Hi there,
I hope you don't mind me intruding here, "hey who's this nobody taking over my thread!" Grin

I'm a member of JAWA, I worked on updating the valis skin a couple months ago along with a load of keldor skins for a pack I was putting together. I added RGB, some specular shading and cleaned up some of the textures (they still had watermark text from the outsourced images Valis used when he made it :p ), i'll add a picture below of what the RGB can look like, and if you want it then i'll fix it up sooner than I had planned; I just need to fix the shader and icons for the species selection.

I've linked it so my image doesn't suffocate your thread: http://oi59.tinypic.com/35ddm60.jpg
(For some reason dynamic glow isn't working on my game, it's likely some conflict of shaders in my folder. Also the gloves are replaced back to the hands and the skin tone was just a test, valis didn't prefer the change so I put it back to the pasty skin he was using lol).

I just wanted to share the info to you as I saw you are very fond of the Valis skin, but of course if you don't want my updated version I made then I will be on my way Tongue
Hi btw!

Ðarth Arken

Hey Rux!

At first I thought you came to tell us that we were stealing work and have to stop using the Valis skin. Tongue That looks pretty sweet. I wouldn't mind you finishing it up for us to use, although we had though about making a totally different approach to it, and making it a ghost.

We're trying to change up the game a little to not completely copy JAWA, and add our own flavor. We play in our map, Sith Sanctuary, where Martyr has made our own Valis hunt section that looks like a tomb. So making the Valis a ghost would be really cool.

But yeah, if you finish it, I'm sure we'd use it if JAWA and Valis himself doesn't mind.

Ruxith

Haha nah i'd be honoured more than anything, and i'd like to think other people would be the same if you decided to use/adapt from their work xD
I'd just advise to give credit when using someone else's skin/model just so there's no ill feelings from them for you using anything "without asking" possibly later down the line, but this game's so old it's difficult to contact everyone to ask if you can make their skins better and wait for a response.

Well it's nice that you guys are trying to put your own touch on things, like with the dooku reskin for example which looked awesome, and some of the others i've taken a quick glimpse at. If my valis update doesn't get used it could at least solve as a base for the additional shader effects and fixed textures.

I'll try not to write too much in my replies, I have a habit of it xD I should be able to sit down and finish the valis skin either on the weekend or at some point next week; i'll post in this topic with a link when it's done.

I look forward to seeing what you guys produce!

Ðarth Arken

Cool. Yeah, that's totally understandable. We give credit to JAWA for the game, for sure. Who made the original Valis skin? I don't think it was on the wiki page for the game.

Write all you want and post all you want. Tongue It's good to have you here. And thanks!

Ruxith

Valis is a member of the clan, although he's slightly more on the inactive side of things nowadays. It was a personal skin for himself but JAWA decided to make a game out of his skin because of how "scary" his face is lol. That's how the skin became so popular, although I much prefer my own keldor skin xD

Ðarth Arken

Well I would definitely feel more comfortable using your version since you are giving us permission. Smile