Got a bit fed up seeing RTCW heads and textures on models so in a desperate attempt to drag this place out of the bowels of theivery I put this together tonight.

It's a low(ish) poly head - about 296 polys, fully UV mapped including a 512x512 Photoshop PSD layered template for making your own face textures. The model has a full texture for the head - its not mirrored for each side.

I wouldn't recommend using a 512x512 texture, but if you re-size it to say 256x256 after texturing the UV map stays ok when you import then texture.

License of use is free - re-texture it, tweak the mesh, use the texture on your own head models if you like. Give me a credit in the release notes if you like, send cash, etc. whatever you want. Just stop using the bloody RTCW textures!

http://www.wunderboy.org/downloads/jed_head.zip

- Jed

Whoopsee, forgot the preview...

Yes, I know he looks like Jesus/Beckham - I did it in a hurry.

- Jed

Thanks Jed. I'm going to use these on my model pack and give them moving mouths.

You'll have to model the mouth for it first, this one doesnt have one.

- Jed

looks good. I'd like to see more new heads released on models, as I too grow weary of seeing the RTCW heads on practically every model. Nice work, and I look forward to seeing how this is used.

Originally posted by Trp. Jed
Just stop using the bloody RTCW textures!


- Jed

Amen! And very nice job.

it looks reeeallly sexy in a caveman kinda way...


;P

in this kinda way?

Sexy Caveman (http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/caveman.jpg)

Haha, yeah that beard does make him look like a caveman.

Very nice DIY head model Jed :)

Nice work jed ;]
About RTCW... i try using the same texture base but i edit the faces so they are totaly diffrent, the model... well ok, i don't have anything to say there... i simply use it.

but it's great you are doing stuff like these, im really glad to see original releases, especialy ones that are so hard to make such as faces.

P.S
It's really a caveman LOL :D

Well the hair/beard, etc is just there so you can see the position of various features for layout, its not meant to be any good. You just need to add your own layers for whatever else you want to add - wrinkles, scars, cammo, etc.

- Jed

Sure... :-D i was just laughing at the demo texture ;]

nice head, he does look liek a caveman cross a russian, in a good way of course. you done well for the amount of polys used i think.

umm... no offense Jed but you're gonna have to do something a bit better if you want the people to not keep using RTCW.

It's a template - your meant to add hair, etc. yourself - whats on there is only a hacked texture to show the UV layout.

As for the head - its LOW poly. This isn't the Q3 engine.

- Jed

Wow someone's touchy today. I just saw how everyone else was responding and voiced my opinion. Sorry.

Originally posted by SnotRocket123
Wow someone's touchy today. I just saw how everyone else was responding and voiced my opinion. Sorry.

Huh? I wasn't being touchy :confused: :(

- Jed

He said it was low poly from the start. You expect him to model in some nose hairs?

Originally posted by {CoR} ez
He said it was low poly from the start. You expect him to model in some nose hairs?

yes. yes i do. i expect pores to be modeled. i expect perfectly rendered hair WITH ANIMATIONS and moving eyeballs.

Awesome work as always Jed :)

Just slapped this on one of my wip's, and IT IS GREAT! Thanks Jed!!!!!111 :D

Question Jed: Can we just build on the Skin Base layer? Or would you prefer we create our own textures totally from scratch?

great release im sick of rtcw heads

i hope you dont mind but i changed the face alittle (smaller lips, bigger jaw, mohawk :p )

lol, thats cool. mohawk could do with being a little rounder or roudned off maybe. i dunno if you skiined the mohawk but it looks like solid brown. still its nice

John/Gab,

Do what you like - thats why I made it. I know a lot of people have problems with modelling heads, UV Mapping and skin textures are always hard so this is a base for you to work from.

Change it however you will, all I ask for is a small credit in the release docs.

- Jed

Very cool. Very very cool.

Really nice work Jed.

Did you use brushes for the hair? if so do you mind telling me which? I'm trying to learn to mesh/Skin, getting the hang of meshing but everything i sick still sucks lol

- Ska

Aw, Ska. you know everything you do rules, now finish my Zippo! :)

LMAO Thought it was you from the name, nice to see you back.. errr.... Mr. Smith ;)

- Ska

The hair is just a brush I found in Photoshop, its just under the round ones (PS7) and looks like a little hair curved to the right. I just sized it to like 25 pixels, selected a brown colour and went ape with it - it jitters and randomises the pattern itself.

I'm working on some hair textures anyway at the moment to go with the face template anyway. Just got so much on right now I havent found time yet.

- Jed

The example pic is great. Might have to make one of myself ;)


Is that what you look like Jed? ;)

GJ Jed,

Way to be. Ive often found that rather than complaining, doing something to solve the problem works much better.

I respect your ethics even if I dont neccesarily care if someone hacks this or that from another game.

Let me just say, however, that the forums here are a bit unfair. Why should the sound ppl be able to post hacked sounds if the modelers cannot post hacked models. IMO no difference.

Originally posted by VoodooChild
Let me just say, however, that the forums here are a bit unfair. Why should the sound ppl be able to post hacked sounds if the modelers cannot post hacked models. IMO no difference.

No idea... although I dont personally approve of ripped sounds either but still.

- Jed

Hello Jed, i've been playing with your head model, and it's all gone a bit hair bear on me, any advice on where i'm going wrong.

Hair bear (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/scitzo/hair_bear.jpg)


LMAO........:D

ROFLMAO :D

Thats priceless...

- Jed

HAHAHAHA

Dead secksi.

LOL, i was nearly peeing myself with laughter when i was posting that pic.......LMAO.

Anyway moving on, what do you think to this skin texture.
skin texture (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/scitzo/skinhead.jpg)

I liked the mullet D:

thats actually pretty cool :eek: is that hair a texture or actual polygons ? or something totally different :confused:

Originally posted by gabagoo
thats actually pretty cool :eek: is that hair a texture or actual polygons ? or something totally different :confused:


No it's something totally different, it's a plugin for lightwave, you just select what polygons you would like hair to grow from, play around with a few settings, then render the object and you have hair. The down side to it though, is you can't carry it over into Halflife, but it's great for renders...:).

I'm not trying to complain, but here is some constructive critisim (my spelling is awful):
I think the reason many people like the RTCW heads is because they look real, not cartoony. They offer moderatly polly head, with a good, high-res, real to life skin. You're head looks cartoonish, otherwise, not real. Don't be afraid to up the pollys a bit, to make it look better, because right now it seriously looks like its from the flinstones, which would be good if this was Day of Bedrock, but not Day of Defeat. Also, try to get a better skin on it, mabye the skin really is everything, and I'm jumping to conslusions, but to me, has of right now, I just think it looks to Cartoony.

Well that last pic i posted, i had subdivided the head into 19000 poly's, and thats nothing to do with the hair, but yet you would not really know it would you.

I think I'm qualified, my self, on modelpollies and skinning, I was simply offering an opnion.

everyone has their own opinion.
i personnaly am sick and tired of seeing rtcw faces and face textures on every god damn friggin release the only ones which look ok to me are the ones russ conscript reskinned and the ones effex modified and aded his own textures to


@jed i was wondering if you could change the mesh alittle ? :D

the top of the head takes up a big part of the size of the texture so that when you resize it ...................... anyways i was wondering if you could remesh it so it isnt like that ? you know what i mean ?

I think your opinion is a good one, and i agree with you, sorry for letting you know i had subdivided that head into 19000 poly's though. as your opinion on it was not as good as your first.....:D

;)

Originally posted by gabagoo
@jed i was wondering if you could change the mesh alittle ? :D

Your free to change it however you like! :)

- Jed

Originally posted by Trp. Jed
Your free to change it however you like! :)

- Jed
:\ i suck at meshing im still working on that damn body i was meshing 2 weeks ago =o

come on you fix it :D

Ok i've taken Jed's head model and edited it, then i've totally remeshed it, then i've started to edit a skin for it, he's a little big eyed at the min, but this is WIP, but heay he's such a pretty big eyed boy.........LMAO.

WIP PIC (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/scitzo/prettyboy.jpg)

rofl, the eyes look huge. Other then that, that looks quality.

So is that you or Jed on that model Marzy?

Originally posted by Trigger
So is that you or Jed on that model Marzy?


LOL, it's neither, it's a couple of photo's i found on the net, one from the front and one from the side, that i've thrown together using photoshop. I've still got some work on with the skin, and i might just add a few more poly's to the model, to round off some sharp edges. The skin at the min is 1024x1024, so it wont look quite as nice when i resize it, but upto now for my first time at giving this method ago, i'm pleased with the results.

thought i'd fool with making a texture for the head. hope that's ok :) tho i did move some verts around here and there, not quite finished yet, but enough for tonight :p


http://joepekar.com/gallery/albums/album04/HeadTextureRenders1.jpg

Thats looking great Fury, but you might want to powder his nose a bit, kinda shiny. His eyes also look a little wierd, the pupils are rather oblong, and he appears to have a lazy eye.

good points Trigger. tweaked the texture a bit and overwrote the old one. now i'm really done for tonight :)

Originally posted by Trigger
and he appears to have a lazy eye.
not everyone who faught in WWII was pretty :p

i like it! good work fury

Yay! See this is great - we're getting away from the RTCW heads at last... :)

- Jed

I really like it, bloody nice work mate!

- Ska

This is the first ever thing I've tried skinning (albeit and edit of Jed's skin) so dont laugh too hard :p

- Ska

That looks really good Fury, you should open a WIP thread.

Nice work to Ska, i see you have not escaped the kipper lip look though.....:D

Originally posted by Ska_Wars
This is the first ever thing I've tried skinning (albeit and edit of Jed's skin) so dont laugh too hard :p

- Ska
lol ska
looks like he ate too many magic mushrooms >_<

thanks guys, glad you like it. I guess i can make a WIP thread for it.

Great job, Jed! Hopefully we'll stop seeing those RTCW heads. I hate them!

Hey Ska! there's Dill! ^