Skulk Anatomy And Butters
bmdavll
Join Date: 2004-09-13 Member: 31682Members
Join Date: 2004-09-13 Member: 31682Members
<div class="IPBDescription">2 wads for your spraying pleasure</div> Well I just learned to make custom sprays, thanks to Verthandi in this <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=81504' target='_blank'>this thread</a>. The first one is a conversion of kyliegirl's "skulk anatomy" painting I found on <a href='http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/5148245/' target='_blank'>Deviantart</a>. The second one is Butters in a towel. Screenies:
<img src='http://img101.exs.cx/img101/7412/skulk4ub.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<a href='http://img134.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img134ℑ=buttersfaceoff0gg.jpg' target='_blank'><img src='http://i134.exs.cx/img134/9615/buttersfaceoff0gg.th.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /></a>
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<img src='http://img101.exs.cx/img101/7412/skulk4ub.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<a href='http://img134.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img134ℑ=buttersfaceoff0gg.jpg' target='_blank'><img src='http://i134.exs.cx/img134/9615/buttersfaceoff0gg.th.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /></a>
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as most people here probably know how to do stuff like this, and can easily do it, i suggest that you do not post something like this unless it is innovative and actually has a reason for people wanting to use it (like that egg spray <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> )
anyway use your new skills to make more custom sprays
If you could make me something that matches my name, Black Viper, ive already got a Dodge Viper symbol, and a snake, lets see what you can come up with.
Being bacteriological life, I rather believed the Kharaa lacked bones and musculature. Hence why they do not gib.
plant cells != animal cells.
animal cells can artculate on bones, plant cells cannot; they snap.
the Kharaa though bacterial seem to obviously have bones. bacteria we know of are simple single celled organism, that flop around fluidly; the kharaa obviously dont and therefore must have some bone structure of some kind.
Second, plants which move, such as the mimosa and venus flytrap, do so without muscle OR bone.
I'm imagining something closer to a hydrostatic network allowing movement, possibly with cells less plantlike but instead more fungoid - in that they have a cell wall composed of cellulose and chitin.
Reinforcing the chitin, or adding more silicates/carbonates would of course result in Carapace, and so on.
as most people here probably know how to do stuff like this, and can easily do it, i suggest that you do not post something like this unless it is innovative and actually has a reason for people wanting to use it (like that egg spray <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> )
anyway use your new skills to make more custom sprays <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
who cares? I think its cool and I dont have the time or skill to do skulk muscles.
Im glad someone else did it. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
as most people here probably know how to do stuff like this, and can easily do it, i suggest that you do not post something like this unless it is innovative and actually has a reason for people wanting to use it (like that egg spray <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> )
anyway use your new skills to make more custom sprays <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
who cares? I think its cool and I dont have the time or skill to do skulk muscles.
Im glad someone else did it. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
actually the skulk anatomy was made by kyliegirl some time ago, pretty cool, bmdavll simply converted it to a spray...
well it's not a bad job anyway.
as most people here probably know how to do stuff like this, and can easily do it, i suggest that you do not post something like this unless it is innovative and actually has a reason for people wanting to use it (like that egg spray <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> )
anyway use your new skills to make more custom sprays <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Attitudes like these are what make the ns comunity not fun. Must be a real team player!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Poor guy just wanted to show off his new spray.
anyways. yeah. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> *uses spray*
Ergo, why not just take a picture of some minced beef, then get a skulk silhouette and cut round it. WOO SKULK ANATOMY. Or do it all yellow and say it has NO internal anatomy. Imagination, ha.
Anyway the Kharaa are multi-functonal, de-centralised, metamorphic, orga-quantum based lifeforms, they aren't mammals, birds, fish, plants or fungus - theyr'e something else <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif' /><!--endemo-->
So basically nobody is wrong.
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From New Scientist:
A single microbe does not have much to say for itself, but put a lot of them together and it is a different story, says Mark Buchanan
IN A small dish in a lab at the University of Chicago, millions of bacteria are deliberating among themselves. For hours there is no activity then suddenly, having taken a vote and come to a decision, the bacteria all light up, filling their world with a soft blue glow. Nearby, other bacteria are navigating as a pack. In response to unseen signals, individual bacteria have grown tendrils and gathered together, forming a raft that glides easily over the solid surface<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
btw... There are lifeforms that 'walk' through pumping liquids through their body: Squids!
There are at least 2 kinds of squids, that wring 6 legs around their body to look meaner and walk on the remaining 2 tentacles on the ground away...
So it would work that the Kharaa are completely composed of bacteria, as it can slurp up and spit out water...
btw... There are lifeforms that 'walk' through pumping liquids through their body: Squids!
There are at least 2 kinds of squids, that wring 6 legs around their body to look meaner and walk on the remaining 2 tentacles on the ground away...
So it would work that the Kharaa are completely composed of bacteria, as it can slurp up and spit out water... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Notice that squids cannot move outside of water. It takes quite a bit of internal engineering in order to make a skeletal system capable of movement on land. Sure a tree's bark is solid enough to form into a 1-ton spacecow, but try adding joints and movement to that structure. Impossible. The kharaa (if they existed) could not solely be sacs of fungus. The fungus would need to join together into colonies of some kind resembling muscles (organs made out of fungus) in order to ,move like they do. Add some artificial coloring, and voila, Kyliegirl's anatomy sketch could be pretty close to the "real thing".