Clan Skin Project

[skinmachine]

If you don't know by now, I'm making 2 sets of clan skins for [SE]. The color theme for the first set is Green/White/Black, the theme for the second set is Red/Yellow/Black. Other then the colors, no other theme has been given to me, so I came up with my own. I decided to include Eagle Eyes and Crosshairs to make this skin specific to [SE]

I came up with the theme by writing "Sharpeye" on a peice of paper, the wrote what came to mind underneath it. I only came up with 2 things. The first was the eagle eyes, because when I here "Sharp Eye", having "eyes as sharp as an eagle's" is what I think of. 2nd was the crosshair because, to me, having a sharp eye means having excellent accuracy (I also thought oz a bullseye, but thought that was to clichè).

I will not release these for download until both sets are complete for 3 reasons. 1st, I want you guys to be able to have time to look at the skins and decide if they are good the way they are, or they need to be changed. 2nd, I wasn't sure if you guys wanted each color theme to have a specific name. If not, I'll just name them se_clan1 and se_clan2. Also, the following characters cannot be in the name of the skin because of the .rscript file the makes some of the detail on the skin glow: [ ] { } ( ). 3rd, you guys need to decide if the skins will be for [SE] only, or if you want me to make them public and let everyone who plays alien arena have the option to download them.

And finally, since I put a crosshair on the [SE] skins, I decided that I should make a custom crosshair for them, which will also be available for download once the skin sets are complete. There are two of them, one is green, and one is red/yellow. The first one is not green/white because I didn't think white would be a good color on a crosshair since it would blend in with the background.

I'll post screenshots as I finish both skins for each model.

[skinmachine]

Slashbot seems to be the favorite model, so that's where I started.

[skinmachine]

I couldn't leave the ladies for last, well in this case LadyKyo, so Lauren was the next model I chose

[DaNi]

as always skinny, nice work :-)

[vaan]

This are great skins!

[world]

dope! looks great

[lancelot]

great skins!

[skinmachine]

The Martian Cyborg was the next on my list. I like the Red/Yellow better then the Green/White, but I think there missing something. If you guys have a few ideas, I'd like to here them, if not, I think they're good enough to stay as they are.

[skinmachine]

Next up was the Martian Enforcer. I really like the way this turned out. I especially love the Eagle Eyes on his face. The ridges on the arms and legs turned out nice as well. I made them simply by usuing the original arms and legs when I made the normal map. This makes it look a little more different then the rest of the Martian Enforcer skins I've made.

[DaNi]

Well, u have made a impossible thing, I like the cyborg !!!! i always hated it, but now, seeing this one, i love it !
And the Martian, you have made a nice work, put the eagle eyes in the face, was a nice idea, very original !

[skinmachine]

The Enforcer is now done, I tried putting the eagle eyes over his eyes, but it looked bad. I thought the plain black parts looked kind of boring, so I added some texture with the normal map. It turned out so good, I added it to the normal maps of Lauren and the Martian Enforcer, their skins still look the same, just now there is the hexagon pattern you see with the Enforcer.

[skinmachine]

Next up was the commander. To be honest, I hate this model. But, these skins (and the [DO] skins and my Neon skin) make it look very good. I think this is the best commander skin I've done so far. The hexagon texture on his armor makes it look better. I actually spent more time on making the normal_map for this model then I did making the skins. Only 1 more skin left, The Overlord.

[DaNi]

wow, you are doing i like all models ! i hatED this one too :-D

[DaNi]

just one remaining, the overlod :-D !

[skinmachine]

Okay, here it is. The Final Skin for the [SE] Skin Pak. The Martian Overlord. I think they both came out quite well. He doesn't have a lot of parts, so while he was easy to work with, it was a challenge to keep him for looking like the [DO] skins and my neon skin. But I pulled it off. Also, you'll notice I updated the pics of Lauren, Martian Cyborg, Martian Enforcer, and Slashbot to reflect the changes I made with there normal maps. I only used the hexagon texture on the "Living Models" normal maps, and used a metal texture one "Machines" because they could be made out of steel so they didin't need the hexagon armor patern. I know the Martian Overlord is supposed to be "Living" but to me he looks like a cyborg.




You can download your clan skins from aa3rdparty here. Just extract the .zip into your AlienArena directory.

Thank You DaNi, Vaan, and the rest of the Sharp Eye Clan for giving me the opportunity to make these skins for you. I learned a lot more about making normal maps with this project, and now I'm looking forward to my next project. I had a lot of fun coming up with these, and I hope you guys have as much fun using them.

P.S.

Also included in this pack ar the 2 crosshairs that I used as detail on your clan skins. They are called seclan1 and seclan2. Also,I've seen that you have voted to make these skins available to everybody in AA, so next week I'll post them to the AA forum.