I'm not sure how to add multiple characters either. I'd download the character-only rig and try importing it.
For a night scene, you need 1 lamp:
Sun lamp; color: blue; low energy.
I can post a blend if you want
Yes, please do. I'm not sure if I understand fully yet, so a blend file for reference will help a lot.
Also, does anyone have any tips and tricks for making realistic landscape? (I'm just asking so much questions, aren't I?) \:
EDIT: Found out what you mean. Do you mind telling me what shade of blue you meant, because I've been tinkering around with it, but can't find just the right shade. Also, where do you recommend you put the lamp? Anywhere?
Question: I am still a complete Blender noob. Can anyone help me on creating a night scene (Dark sky, dark lighting thats lit up by torches, etc.)? All I need to know how to do is make the lighting dark, and the sky starry and black, like the Minecraft night sky.
Thanks,
Leggos_My_Eggos
P.S. I still don't know how to add multiple characters into a blend file with different skins. Does anybody mind telling me how?
Woah. would it be possible for you to give me a link to this mod. im making a portal map and this would be so much better then pressure pads
Sorry, but not only is it exclusive until we release the new map, but we plan on trying to make it exclusive for our map only. (which means we don't want others using it on their public maps without our permission)
No, it was made exclusively for our map by our friend working with us on the map. Like iChun's Portal Gun mod, the mods made for our map will be installed by simply dragging a file into the mods folder, so don't worry about installing additional mods. Along with that, the mod creator might also work on a security method for protecting our stuff from being used in other maps. :biggrin.gif:
Ok, done rendering and uploading my blinking animation test. Here it is:
How I Did It:
It was kinda simple. First I made a plane and resized it so its width was about the width of the Minecraft character's eye, and its height so that it was almost invisible. Then I moved it right above one of the eyes. After that, I changed its color to something that wouldn't look too weird on the MC skin (experiment on what looks the best). Then, I duplicated the plane to the other eye. I attached them to the character's head using skarb's tutorial for attaching things to a player's hand:
...attach it to the hand bone as in this example:
when you first apply the modifier the tool/weapon will suddenly leap across the screen or just vanish. You need to click on the "set inverse" and/or "clear inverse" buttons until it lines up correctly.
After that, I selected the plane(s), and in the properties menu I clicked the triangle icon. Then, under that, I checked the "Shape Keys" option. I added a shape key, which by default, was "Basis" (don't do anything with that one). Then I added another shape key, pressed Tab to go into edit mode, and resized them to go over the character's eye. Press tab, and rename it "blink."
I then changed the timeline to the dope editor (or w/e it's called), and made sure it was on the Shape Key editing mode. Then I selected one of the planes, set the first keyframe to be 0, then 5 frames later, set it to be 100, then 5 frames after that, set it back to 0. You can adjust this to make it go faster or slower, or make the value less than 100 for a squinting affect.
If you have any more questions about this, feel free to ask me. I'm going to start working on animating the mouth soon.
You can't animate eyes or mouth, since they are apart of the texture. My guess is that in the video, the eyes/mouth are separate objects parented to the character.
I finally managed to animate the eyes. I'll post a video and explain soon.
But one question, whenever I press undo/redo, Blender crashes. Anyone know what might be causing this?
Hey, sorry for being a pest and asking so much questions, but is it possible to animate the mouth/eyes in this rig?
EDIT: Also, is it possible to add half-steps, stairs, and/or fences?
EDIT 2: One last question, how do you append a person into a different blend file from your rig? Also, how would you add multiple people with different skins?
The textures are there, you are just using a solid viewport rather than a textured one. I have it set to this so that the file doesn't crash older computers when they open it. This should help you change it if you want:
This is a demo of one of our most recent mods we're implementing into the map, and was made by our good friend nickguletskii specifically for this map. Let us know what you think of it! (:
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# Problematic frame:
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Current thread (0x4a915400): JavaThread "AWT-Windows" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=4384, stack(0x4add0000,0x4ae20000)]
EAX=0x4ae1faa8 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x4a915400
EBX=0x4a960eb8 is an unknown value
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ESP=0x4ae1fa90 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x4a915400
EBP=0x00000000 is an unknown value
ESI=0x00000000 is an unknown value
EDI=0x000000c0 is an unknown value
VM Mutex/Monitor currently owned by a thread: None
Heap
def new generation total 157376K, used 6642K [0x044a0000, 0x0ef60000, 0x199f0000)
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from space 17472K, 0% used [0x0cd40000, 0x0cd40000, 0x0de50000)
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the space 349568K, 34% used [0x199f0000, 0x2100e148, 0x2100e200, 0x2ef50000)
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the space 18176K, 99% used [0x444a0000, 0x45646438, 0x45646600, 0x45660000)
No shared spaces configured.
@Em0srawk Yes, please do look at my hard work before you credit THIS guy (lolmastergeneral). I tried to politely ask him to remove his video so people don't get confused and think that HE did anything, but he replied "I don't think I will." He LIKES feeding off of other peoples' fame, and it sickens me.
Guys, he didn't make any of it. He just added/destroyed a few blocks on Test Chamber 6 in my map PortalCraft (The one that got featured by Yogscast @Citricsquid). Then he just modified some textures from PortalCraft's official texturepack by Verticity. And to finish it off, he didn't make the mod either he just used iChun's.So, to summarize what this man has done, he's just destroyed/added a few blocks on my map PortalCraft, modified a few textures in Verticity's PortalCraft texturepack, and used iChun's mod. Oh, I almost forgot. He also used the name "PortalCraft 2" without my permission.This doesn't deserve front page.
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Now I have ping sounds though. (:
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I did? Whoops. :ohmy.gif:
Well, actually, I'm not sure if it's done. He might have finished it, but hasn't applied it to our work yet. \:
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Yes, please do. I'm not sure if I understand fully yet, so a blend file for reference will help a lot.
Also, does anyone have any tips and tricks for making realistic landscape? (I'm just asking so much questions, aren't I?) \:
EDIT: Found out what you mean. Do you mind telling me what shade of blue you meant, because I've been tinkering around with it, but can't find just the right shade. Also, where do you recommend you put the lamp? Anywhere?
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Thanks,
Leggos_My_Eggos
P.S. I still don't know how to add multiple characters into a blend file with different skins. Does anybody mind telling me how?
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Sorry, but not only is it exclusive until we release the new map, but we plan on trying to make it exclusive for our map only. (which means we don't want others using it on their public maps without our permission)
No, it was made exclusively for our map by our friend working with us on the map. Like iChun's Portal Gun mod, the mods made for our map will be installed by simply dragging a file into the mods folder, so don't worry about installing additional mods. Along with that, the mod creator might also work on a security method for protecting our stuff from being used in other maps. :biggrin.gif:
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How I Did It:
It was kinda simple. First I made a plane and resized it so its width was about the width of the Minecraft character's eye, and its height so that it was almost invisible. Then I moved it right above one of the eyes. After that, I changed its color to something that wouldn't look too weird on the MC skin (experiment on what looks the best). Then, I duplicated the plane to the other eye. I attached them to the character's head using skarb's tutorial for attaching things to a player's hand:
After that, I selected the plane(s), and in the properties menu I clicked the triangle icon. Then, under that, I checked the "Shape Keys" option. I added a shape key, which by default, was "Basis" (don't do anything with that one). Then I added another shape key, pressed Tab to go into edit mode, and resized them to go over the character's eye. Press tab, and rename it "blink."
I then changed the timeline to the dope editor (or w/e it's called), and made sure it was on the Shape Key editing mode. Then I selected one of the planes, set the first keyframe to be 0, then 5 frames later, set it to be 100, then 5 frames after that, set it back to 0. You can adjust this to make it go faster or slower, or make the value less than 100 for a squinting affect.
If you have any more questions about this, feel free to ask me. I'm going to start working on animating the mouth soon.
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I finally managed to animate the eyes. I'll post a video and explain soon.
But one question, whenever I press undo/redo, Blender crashes. Anyone know what might be causing this?
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EDIT: Also, is it possible to add half-steps, stairs, and/or fences?
EDIT 2: One last question,
how do you append a person into a different blend file from your rig?Also, how would you add multiple people with different skins?0
Thanks a billion! :biggrin.gif:
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I'm an extreme blender newb, and was utterly confused when I loaded up the .blend file in Blender.
How come none of the textures are loading? \:
EDIT: If it matters, I have blender version 2.59.
EDIT 2: However, when I render it, all the textures show up in the render...
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Thanks for the support! :biggrin.gif:
There is lots more like this to come. (:
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This is a demo of one of our most recent mods we're implementing into the map, and was made by our good friend nickguletskii specifically for this map. Let us know what you think of it! (:
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Yeah. Blame everything on iChun from now on. :biggrin.gif:
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Please post this on iChun's Portal Gun Mod thread.
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No, I've used an iMac (before it broke on me) and currently a MacBook, and I just delete the whole META-INF folder and everything works fine.