My Little Pony + Brawl: Mario Kart/3D Outline Render

[Get A Load of This!]

There's the Mane6 team working on Fighting is Magic, which is having a single full release and then further patches down the line that add new (presentable) content. More like DLC than an actual beta.

Not really a big fan of the show or anything but there's at least that to go off of.

[deadname mcredactedface]

We could look at other brony projects: What do they do concerning betas?

They don't listen to Red.

I'm with GALOT on this one. Keep the betas closed.

[Xiggah]

That's been the most popular idea anyways.

Anyways, I'm working with the lighting/shading, and deciding between a detailed, brawlified look, or a cartoony style similar to the Wind Waker trophies. Opinions? (Also, getting that cartoony style is easier said than done...)

[Get A Load of This!]

Probably better off going down a more brawl-esque look. Not super detailed, though, or they'd just look kind of freaky. More likely than not going to want to focus on the hair textures more than any other part.

[Spex130]

As far as cartoons go, you should consider getting the Shaders and Materials off of the Wind Waker Trophies. If you can get them to work, that would work awesome. They're very cell shaded.

[Xiggah]

As far as cartoons go, you should consider getting the Shaders and Materials off of the Wind Waker Trophies. If you can get them to work, that would work awesome. They're very cell shaded.

I don't know if you read my mind and didn't view my post, but yes! I'm looking into those right now: BlackJax said his Brawlbox viewer will support those cartoon styles in the future. But for now, I've noticed that those trophies used shadermap textures. If anyone wants to help me with this, I would be very grateful! And credit of course.

[BriefCasey795]

Personally, I say make them look Cartoony. Maybe Brawl Styled could be one of those retextures that are not used in Team Battles. Speaking of which, we ARE gonna have Recolors included, right? Also, I'm gonna plan ahead and start working on some CSS stuff for the mane 6. Also got another recolor idea. Consider this a Re-vertex idea. However, you're probably not gonna like it though... If you know what it is, don't touch the "show spilers" button.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3mKdj346-c" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3mKdj346-c</a>

[size=100pt]I TOLD YA DON'T TOUCH THAT DARN THING![/size]

But anyway. People are probably gonna make recolors and revertexes of their own. And you know those MJ taunts on the vault? (link here in case you don't know. http://forums.kc-mm.com/Gallery/BrawlView.php?Number=19397) I think someone should make one for the MLP characters. But enough crazy ideas. So are animations of the mane 6 done? I mean, you are working on patching up the models. so Shading issues don't occur. Wait, speaking of the mane 6, You haven't released a Preview of Fluttershy... Also, shouldn't we make sound packs? so therefore, we don't have to deal with the Crazyness of Pinkie Pie with a manly voice (snake), Fluttershy with a deep odd voice, (DDD), and so on. But i'm pretty sure that's gonna be hard. (or so i think). Right now, i'm gonna do CSS icons.

[Get A Load of This!]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3mKdj346-c
[size=100pt]I TOLD YA DON'T TOUCH THAT DARN THING![/size]

I didn't even read the rest of your post. The whole thing is now condemned.

[Xiggah]

Personally, I say make them look Cartoony. Maybe Brawl Styled could be one of those retextures that are not used in Team Battles. Speaking of which, we ARE gonna have Recolors included, right? Also, I'm gonna plan ahead and start working on some CSS stuff for the mane 6. Also got another recolor idea. Consider this a Re-vertex idea. However, you're probably not gonna like it though... If you know what it is, don't touch the "show spilers" button.

But anyway. People are probably gonna make recolors and revertexes of their own. And you know those MJ taunts on the vault? (link here in case you don't know. http://forums.kc-mm.com/Gallery/BrawlView.php?Number=19397) I think someone should make one for the MLP characters. But enough crazy ideas. So are animations of the mane 6 done? I mean, you are working on patching up the models. so Shading issues don't occur. Wait, speaking of the mane 6, You haven't released a Preview of Fluttershy... Also, shouldn't we make sound packs? so therefore, we don't have to deal with the Crazyness of Pinkie Pie with a manly voice (snake), Fluttershy with a deep odd voice, (DDD), and so on. But i'm pretty sure that's gonna be hard. (or so i think). Right now, i'm gonna do CSS icons.

Of course the community will do hacks of their own: Just as I am making hacks of My Little Pony characters I did not create, it is not my right to decide what others can and can't do with any hacks I create. All hacks based off of this are allowed.

Secondly, while I can say that I have animated and planned out a lot of the characters, I also have to say that all of the animations done without the rig aren't as perfect as desired, and are reanimated with each upgrade I make to the animation rig in 3DS max. As soon as a perfect rig is made, then I can expect others to animate!

As for CSS icons, I'm waiting for the finished shading and coloring so CSS portraits featuring the 3D models will be present, and sounds are at the very end of the production cycle, because that's how sound is treated in the industry. Yet, I do look forward to seeing what you can come up with!

[BriefCasey795]

Thanks. I'm only doing out of game CSS icons. in-game will have to wait obviously.

[deadname mcredactedface]

When the time ACTUALLY comes, I wouldn't mind making props for the project. Here's something I threw together in 5 minutes as an example, but if you actually want to use it I'd need to modify the model some more. (though I wasn't under the impression you were even going to use a foam hand)



Ignore the Canadian hockey logo. I just picked a random hand off Google images, photoshopped it, traced it and build the model from that.

[Naruto200Man]

Well...good to see you're going strong on this project I honestly can't wait to see it finished

Me on the other hand... *is so freaking glad that the Krystal model I found is one single mesh for the most part* well, the rigging is going a lot smoother than anticipated. I might actually finish this one ^+^; my only hiccup might be rigging the skirt flaps.

Here's hoping both our projects continue as planned *brofist*

[BriefCasey795]

When the time ACTUALLY comes, I wouldn't mind making props for the project. Here's something I threw together in 5 minutes as an example, but if you actually want to use it I'd need to modify the model some more. (though I wasn't under the impression you were even going to use a foam hand)



Ignore the Canadian hockey logo. I just picked a random hand off Google images, photoshopped it, traced it and build the model from that.

Holy crap, that's amazing. My Jaw hit the Floor when i saw that. Perhaps maybe the hand itself should be Yellow, the yellow outlines should be black, and no logo, but probably the community will probably Edit the foam hand themselves. XD Anyway, still doing CSS icons. I will also make...

-In Game Name
-Team Icon (Probably might need some help, as i've never made Team Icons that complicated if i'm going to use the MLP: FiM Logo)

That's all i have in mind. I'll update whenever i get more ideas.

EDIT: Pinkie Pie CSS icon is done! See below! (Xiggah, Please credit me for making this when pinkie pie is released.)

Pretty Cool, Huh? Next up is in-game name! (I make them by mixing up various in-game names that are close to a size.)

[deadname mcredactedface]

Oh please, it took like 5 seconds to make and I can make it even better than that ^^;

[BriefCasey795]

Which one, the CSS icon or the Model?