How do,

Started working on these yesterday as my girlfriend is on her hols for a week and I'm bored to death.

Still needs alot of work like bits adding, parts reskinning, faces improving, I also need to get the transparancies to work on the unit patches and cap badge.

I'll also be making a kilted version with a bit of luck :p

Rifleman (http://mysite.freeserve.com/skawars/blackwatch/1.jpg)
Sarge (http://mysite.freeserve.com/skawars/blackwatch/2.jpg)
Bren (http://mysite.freeserve.com/skawars/blackwatch/3.JPG)
Sniper (http://mysite.freeserve.com/skawars/blackwatch/4.JPG)

I couldn't find many reference pics at all of the Black Watch so if any bits are wrong or outta place feel free to tell me.

- Ska

If you need help on the reskinning of the heads, send me the .mdl (vandal@skullz.net) Great work, I might just use these over the ruskie pack I have installed...very nice. The sarge face seems less british and more...i don't know...french maybe. Perhaps its just the 'stash he's got going. The only one that I'd actually change because its no good is the sniper one. The other three are quality! especially the first one, looks quite british imo.

(edit: I do realize its the same one repeated with changes, but I also understand you're adujusting them, so...its just the coloring of the sniper guy I have issue with. Looks a little undead.)

Though speaking of kilts and folks not wearing full pants....I'd love to skin for a desert rats/DAK pack.

Oh
My
God

These look beautiful (I mean the skins not the guys, I'm not gay! I'm Not!)

Truely great :D

Well I'm currently learning skinning/meshing/animating so i'd like to do the faces myself, but as you can see they look a bit shell shocked/cartoony lol

If possible I might try and knock up some new death animations cos the old ones are a bit crap in some places (e.g. shot in the back does a really camp fall forward :p )

As for Desert Rats, they're on my list of things to do lol

- Ska

No troubles, alot of the expression is measured in the eyes in playerskinning. You can't do alot with the mouth, or it will look strange, remember, in DoD their faces never change. So it may look cool to have a diffrent expression on then normal, but he runs, fights, and dies the way he's skinned. So keeping a sort of aloof/unemotional look on is the typical solution. Look at the RTCW textures, look at the default dod's, even look at my 87th inf. I'm sure you'll find ways to add variety without worrying about being to cartooney (they DO look good.)

Pretty nice mate... i like it.


BTW you can make the transperent rank a flat plain, no need to have it boxed... i can see it from here :P

I'm not makin the patches flat faces as the look like a bit of paper stuck on, i want them to stick out from the uniform as they're supposed. And the patch on the right is not the rank, its the regiment patch. The right arms shows the Black Watch, the left arm shows the division (4th inf in this case) and their rank. The badges the bren and sniper wear are distinction bacdges. The bren gunner has a driver's proficiency qualification badge and the sniper has a marksman proficiency qualification.

- Ska

Where be my models ya nubby...

Kilts...Need more kilts.

I see... but if you want to create the 3d feeling then or you gotta model it, or you need to break it in the middle, making it on a box won't give that feeling, infact it will create the opposite because at some angles you won't see it at all while the polygon count will be just slightly higher (not that you can notice it but... still).

i like these alot

Originally posted by Mortar
I see... but if you want to create the 3d feeling then or you gotta model it, or you need to break it in the middle, making it on a box won't give that feeling, infact it will create the opposite because at some angles you won't see it at all while the polygon count will be just slightly higher (not that you can notice it but... still).

I know what I'm doing, have a little faith please :p lol

- Ska

Sure :-)

oooooooow kilts ^__^

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Any news/updates, these look really awsome :D

they look nice ska - cept one guy looks like hes seen a ghost (the face painting is bland). and i think the badges stand out too much, and should be rounder and wrap around the arm more. looking good though

yes yes please lets see some screenshots of those kilts <xD

i got bored... i made a kilt ^_^

i think the bren gunner would look awsome with it xD

you dont have to use this but just incase you want to heres teh kilt with a ****ty texture :p

oops i didnt realize i didnt add faces underneath teh kilt :O if your gonna use it you should definatly add faces....

that sounds so wrong gabagoo

"faces underneath the kilt"

:p you know what i mean...

anyways i just tested teh kilt out and realized some of the verst from the kilt are assigned to the skeleton weirdly so when it goens into anim it looks alittle funky O_o

owell it was a 15 minute hack. you dont need to use it =P

I've got the kilts made but as you say the animations play hell with them so i've been messing with them to stop them getting ****ed up.

To be honest I dunno if I'm gonna bother finishing them, I'm in a general 'Can't be arsed' mood recently lol

Nice work on the leg skins btw gab lol

- Ska

i wants kilts godamnit!!!!!!111111111111oneoenoenno:D

how funy would it be to see a bren gunner on caen wearing a kilt hoding back an i\entire squad of germans:D :D :D

ska YOU MUST RELEASE WITH KILTS!!!;) :D

Please make sure you can't see up the kilts when they are dead/prone, some very nasty incidents can happen...

"Hey Jerries, Look at my big hairy..."

lol I'll try and finish these up for the end of the week.

I've got a few version so far:

All with Tam O'Shanters
Sarge with peaked cap, sniper with helmet, other with Tam O-Shanters
All with helmets

I'll also do kilted versions of each of those if i can.

- Ska

Ska, I'm so gonna use this :D

Originally posted by Ska_Wars
Nice work on the leg skins btw gab lol
what leg skin :confused: :eek: :confused:

On the screenie.

- Ska

oh lol >_<

/slaps self

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:eek:

yus more pics plz ;) with a kilt ofcourse ^_^

New pics tonight with a bit of luck.

- Ska

<3 :D

Do something with the sniper's face. It looks sceary.

Originally posted by Bubbles [JBX]
Do something with the sniper's face. It looks sceary.

You're missing a please there dick head! :p

@ Gab. any chance you could send us the skin you used on them legs. I've tried making my own but i jus cant get the shading right to save me life.

- Ska

btw for the legs your going to have to reasign some verts from the kneecaps to the correct part of the bone. becasue as it is now it looks weird when it bens :x

also might wanna play around with the mesh for the legs cause it was all a 15 minute hack i didnt pay attention to detail, btw the leg skin is really a arm skin >_<

oh yeah also i noticed that one of teh verts connecting the leg to the boot isnt welded so in anim it like spikes out

bah i should have paid attention to detail =\ you want me to perfect it ?

Cheers mate.

You actually did quite a good job on the kilt mate. Took some meshing about but i got it working quite well now, cheers fella.

i ditched my attempt at one lol i started off making one from scratch but that sucked, so then i used a modified trench coat but that was worse lol

There's some minor clipping errors at the mo but I cant see anyway of solving that and you only really notice them on extra movements like spriting and that.

Should have som pics up soon, jus working on a plume for the tam o'shanter. i know they didn't wear the plumes into combat but i still wanna make one lol

- Ska

Heres a little update on the bren.

The kilt needs reskinning (I could only find a crappy quality gvt tartan) as dones the skin. I also need to edit the tunic to be a cut away doublet.

I'll probably add other gear like Mills bombs too.

- Ska

*cough* where my models *cough*

Remeber that the Black Watch is Canadian...

ok a few things i noticed.. his eyes look wide open you might wanna change that and something about the kilt texture just doesnt do it for meh =\ oh and maybe add some socks >_<

Originally posted by Canuck
*cough* where my models *cough*

Remeber that the Black Watch is Canadian...

I'll do them, I'll do them... lol

and the Black Watch is orignally Scottish. The Canucks jus have a Canadian Black Watch or Highland division.

@ Gab. As i said, i'm reskinning the kilt. The eyes, as I've always said, need redoing to get rid of the shellshock expression and I'm working on socks at the mo, they even come with the red ribbons! :p lol

- Ska

The Black Watch are so distinctly Scottish it's astounding you can by any length of sanity assume they're fully Canadian...

Originally posted by Ska_Wars
You're missing a please there dick head! :p

@ Gab. any chance you could send us the skin you used on them legs. I've tried making my own but i jus cant get the shading right to save me life.

- Ska

Do something with the sniper's face PLEASE, it's sceary. Biatch. :D :)

Originally posted by Handy
The Black Watch are so distinctly Scottish it's astounding you can by any length of sanity assume they're fully Canadian... Canadians wear kilts too, y'know, those crazy blokes.

Yes...but they're just copycats.

Originally posted by Handy
The Black Watch are so distinctly Scottish it's astounding you can by any length of sanity assume they're fully Canadian...

Lots of Scotes up here m8...

Bah.

hows this coming along ska ^_^

...damn you.

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lol I knew I was forgetting to do summat :p

Sorry lads, had a 12 hour Graphic Art exam this week so I've been a bit busy recently. I'll try and do some more work on these soon.

- Ska

BUMP D:!

Ahem any news?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Haven't touched these in weeks cos of my exams but they're all over now so I'll get these finished.

Yay :)

Probably gonna release the kecks version first cos the kilts need a little more work before I'll be happy with them.

so ? any progress?
:)
they're really nice.

Ska, get my info,add me to your list.. ill back yah up for this pack.
more countrys the better.

Bloody hell, forgot all about these lol

To be honest I've been concentrating on my work with Over The Top (http://www.overthetopmod.com) recently and haven't even visted the DoD forms much. I haven't really played since 1.1.

Anyway, I'll try and get these sorted. Look back of them I've spotted a load of inaccuracies in them so I'll be redoing some little bits too.

@ BaDkaRmA158Th. wha? lol

okay, me want models,release good.

better?