i was looking at the preview of class based skins one of which had a great autumn camouflage smock texture. would be nice if someone actually made a custom coat with the characteristics of a smock. it can also work online if it is within valve's designated hitbox area.

the general shape of the smock is quite puffy at the abdominal area and narrow at the shoulders because it drapes down more and is softer than the wool like coat of the original model(which is boxier at the shoulder area). the sleeves at the wrist are elastic. the garment also drapes down a lot so the coat would hang down quite a bit. here's are examples well done in call of duty 3:

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/7361/6largewq6.jpg

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/7558/callofduty3200610190349qy2.jpg

as you can see it uses both shaders and polygons to make the garment look puffy and 3d. their use of normal mapping is superb and creates realistic looking flaps and overlapping of the fabric. it would be great and add a whole lot of variety and visual improvements to the game. and note the bottom part of the smock, how it's irregular and has a wrinkled quality.

i would model it myself, but i severely lack the expertise.

Yeah, I admire how awesome CoD's designers make their textures, even though most seem photoskinned (which isn't a bad thing necessarily). Their shader work is awesome, and this would be wonderful if possible.

Yeah, I admire how awesome CoD's designers make their textures, even though most seem photoskinned (which isn't a bad thing necessarily). Their shader work is awesome, and this would be wonderful if possible.Hehe I actually was rather unimpressed.... I guess they kept the resolution down for optimization, or they put all the gear in with each individual model skin.

Exactly why does it seem photoskinned? Because it doesn't look cartoony? :D

Yeah, I admire how awesome CoD's designers make their textures, even though most seem photoskinned (which isn't a bad thing necessarily). Their shader work is awesome, and this would be wonderful if possible.

Did you see the vid's on how they made the models? They actually put uniforms on mannequins and laser scanned them into a 3D app. Same with human faces.

I don't know whether to be impressed or laugh at the overkill...

wanna see! do you have a link to that videos?

Did you see the vid's on how they made the models? They actually put uniforms on mannequins and laser scanned them into a 3D app. Same with human faces.

I don't know whether to be impressed or laugh at the overkill...

lol that's awesome. i guess if they have the tech and money, why not?

Did you see the vid's on how they made the models? They actually put uniforms on mannequins and laser scanned them into a 3D app. Same with human faces.

I don't know whether to be impressed or laugh at the overkill...It depends. Maybe it was time/cost saving measure. They probably only rented the equipment.

Hehe I actually was rather unimpressed.... I guess they kept the resolution down for optimization, or they put all the gear in with each individual model skin.

Exactly why does it seem photoskinned? Because it doesn't look cartoony? :D

What I noticed about console games or even pc games now, is that they lower or keep low resolution texture but get the details from normalmapping.

This is not my favorite way of getting details, I think it's cheap.

This can look good sometimes, but when close to a character or model or whatever it just looks crap.

Wiles latest release "class based skins" look in there the sniper has a smock, is it possible wile to get them all 2 have smocks? ive tried it lol only problem i got was the all had the corn seed camo on their helmets, i any tips on how 2 get them 2 just have the smocks the same and everything else as u have made it?

I have my own personal skins which are very much like the ones in those pictures and use wile's class based skin as a base ( but edited them so they have different helemts, faces and markings etc) , if i get the time i'll try and upload them for you

I have my own personal skins which are very much like the ones in those pictures and use wile's class based skin as a base ( but edited them so they have different helemts, faces and markings etc) , if i get the time i'll try and upload them for you


thanks mate i seen the pic of um in ur karbiner98 post!

What I noticed about console games or even pc games now, is that they lower or keep low resolution texture but get the details from normalmapping..

Thats because they have lower spec hardware than PC games and have to fit into a specific memory footprint. The PS3 has what, 256Mb video memory and the Xbox 360 512Mb shared with the main RAM?

Seriously, you CAN'T do that much texture wise with that much RAM and I think most of their target audience are running of standard TV's so they can get away with it. The HDTV market is probably less than 10%.

I have my own personal skins which are very much like the ones in those pictures and use wile's class based skin as a base ( but edited them so they have different helemts, faces and markings etc) , if i get the time i'll try and upload them for you

Thanks man. But what about the jacket? That's the major difference in a smock is what the guy has on his torso, model wise.

Thanks man. But what about the jacket? That's the major difference in a smock is what the guy has on his torso, model wise.

wile has done a excellent job on his smock to make it at least look very convincing that the model is wearing it so you won't realise it ingame

wile has done a excellent job on his smock to make it at least look very convincing that the model is wearing it so you won't realise it ingame

Agreed...it looks great in-agame. I just tried it, it does look like a smock.

I was against using it at first, because of the sleeve issue...but it looks too good to not use it.

EDIT:
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6358/smockgd1.th.gif (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=smockgd1.gif)

Note:
This is the 1024x1024 version, there is a 2048x2048 version available.

What about the ruffles? Got to have ruffles man...especially at the waist area

lol...sometimes you have to take what you can get.

I don't see Valve doing this, but that's just my opinion.

What about the ruffles? Got to have ruffles man...especially at the waist area

Its got ruffles at the waist area and on the arms and on the arm skin, enough ruffles and as guyver said
lol...sometimes you have to take what you can get.

what exactly do the hitboxes look like anyways? and if i were to modify a model,do i have to use some special extractor or can i just use blender and change the vertice planes around?