The Black marine
With having alien lifeforms and even female marines coming up i felt there was something missing...a black marine.
So i took the liberty to make a little tweak to the existing male face texture in order to change the appearance of the marines.
The final result looks like this:
It still uses the same male_face2.dds but only slightly differently colored. It took me 3 times until it looked good ingame.
The first result was a little dark:
Here you can se before and after picture, i initially just draw right over the texture but went into higher detail as you can see in the second version:
If there would be anything i could change then i possibly would add more prominent mustache. Nothing over the top.
Or even better warp the actual 3D model of the face slightly to fit texture in a different way.
This did not take long at all and if an armature could pull this off i don't see any reason to why there would not be some variations of different demographics.
Sry for spelling or expressing myself wrong in advance English is my 3rd language.
You can se it already in action on the 32 Man server on NS2 but if there is demand enough i might add it to steam workshop as a small separate mod.
So i took the liberty to make a little tweak to the existing male face texture in order to change the appearance of the marines.
The final result looks like this:
It still uses the same male_face2.dds but only slightly differently colored. It took me 3 times until it looked good ingame.
The first result was a little dark:
Here you can se before and after picture, i initially just draw right over the texture but went into higher detail as you can see in the second version:
If there would be anything i could change then i possibly would add more prominent mustache. Nothing over the top.
Or even better warp the actual 3D model of the face slightly to fit texture in a different way.
This did not take long at all and if an armature could pull this off i don't see any reason to why there would not be some variations of different demographics.
Sry for spelling or expressing myself wrong in advance English is my 3rd language.
You can se it already in action on the 32 Man server on NS2 but if there is demand enough i might add it to steam workshop as a small separate mod.
Comments
EY I was all ready to slap a lock on it with my patented link to the black armour thread mon... But it appears we are in the presence of awesome!
It would probably take UWE about 1 day to create an entire bundle of different appearances so i am surprised we still have an entire team of clones in marines team.
Looks great.
instead of some people that have black armor or regular assigned it will do the same thing but for the face. Maby even have 5 to pick from in the main menu so you always can be your favorite character as a marine.
well, except cisgender female. we can't have one of those
Back in the day, I used to play a lot of Tribes 1, and there was a pretty large skinning community for it. Many servers allowed custom skins, that all players could see.
I wonder if this is do-able with a server mod?
This should be a thing more skin customisations. The ability to change skin colour, the ability to change armour skin the ability to change the clothes under the armour, the ability to change armour model.
For example you should be avible to have a black girl marine with the assult marine clothes and the assult marine model armour. And have that armour with the kodiak skin. Or a white skin coloured marine with the deluxe armour model but with the black armour skin.
Why you ask?
To get more (you're own) marine, to get more freedom. Even if some combinations look bad it's still your own....
To hard (with Programing and such) If so tell me! I wanna know!!!!
Hopefully this satisfies some your desires for customizations.
https://trello.com/c/aunXNiyL/650-shadow-fade-and-onos-models
Three words
Purple Fade Pants!
or orange as suggested by someone somewhere someplace...