Screenshots thread

[Bartolomeu o Portugues]

Can anyone suggest a use for this guy?
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I created that as a by-product of something I was doing for someone else. He's based on a model from CoAS, but with the texture adapted to fit the "will" type model in PoTC. At the moment I'm thinking of assigning him as another Spanish noble, as an alternative to "hub_spa3" who seems to turn up all over the place. Or he could be Portuguese as they have hardly any "huber" nobleman character models at all.

If you want I can use this model in my storylines.

 

[Grey Roger]

Giving Milady a good companion would be a very bad idea! She can't put him in command of a captured ship, or at least, not for very long...

How do you prevent the game engine from drawing its own eyes onto a model? Evidently it can be done because some character models already have eye-patches. If I could make an alternative version of this guy with an eye-patch, and either remove or darken all the white bits, the result would be a near perfect Count of Rochefort.

@Bartolomeu o Portugues: I've certainly no objection to you using the model for a storyline character, but I wasn't planning on having him reserved entirely for a storyline. (Incidentally, that question about preventing a model from drawing its own eyes applies to you because the "gypsycaptain" models used for Bartolomeu have a damaged eye which wouldn't work if the game engine drew its own usual eyes onto the model.)

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Giving Milady a good companion would be a very bad idea! She can't put him in command of a captured ship, or at least, not for very long...

I meant "good" as in "good skills" (or at least: reasonable). But he can still have a terrible reputation!
And the Count of Rochefort should be a bad guy anyway.

How do you prevent the game engine from drawing its own eyes onto a model? Evidently it can be done because some character models already have eye-patches.

I'm not sure. Maybe something with applying an alpha map to the eye texture?
@Jack Rackham, do you have any clue?

 

[Jack Rackham]

@Jack Rackham, do you have any clue?

Really no idea but why not
try make a "switch head" to a head using only one eye (a patched one).

 

[Homo eructus]

Rochefort is a real badass, specially when played by Christopher Lee. It would be cool to have him ingame.

 

[Grey Roger]

Really no idea but why not
try make a "switch head" to a head using only one eye (a patched one).

How do I do that?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

How do I do that?

TOOL can do it. Somehow.
It is probably described in Tools, Tutorials and Information | PiratesAhoy! or in the documentation that accompanies the TOOL itself.
Otherwise, I think @Jack Rackham and @Hylie Pistof have done it in the past.

 

[Grey Roger]

This is a revised version with a less French-looking moustache, slightly darker skin, and red sash replacing the leather piratey cross-belt. I'm planning to use him to replace "hub_spa3" for the governor of Santiago. That will mean he's no longer a clone of the Santiago shop-keeper, or for that matter the Santo Domingo governor, both of which also use "hub_spa3".

If I can find out how to make a one-eyed character then Rochefort will have an eye-patch, otherwise he'll just have to be miraculously healed.

 

[Jack Rackham]

TOOL: Extras\Mix Characters choose the wanted head and body models. Both combinations show up in a folder
called Mixed under Models\characters.

The position often has to be finetuned with the sliders. Sometimes the size too.
Certainly not all models are compatible.

The most negative with this method is that you can't do it with the 'talking head" models. So when using your
chosen head model (as talking head) you have to retexture what is visible of the chest/skirt.

 

[Grey Roger]

The other snag is that I'd have to pick a head from one of the existing one-eyed characters, none of which have the hat. If it's a choice between losing an eye and keeping the hat, Rochefort is keeping the hat.

Which means Rochefort is probably going to look like this:

 

[Pieter Boelen]

This is a revised version with a less French-looking moustache, slightly darker skin, and red sash replacing the leather piratey cross-belt. I'm planning to use him to replace "hub_spa3" for the governor of Santiago. That will mean he's no longer a clone of the Santiago shop-keeper, or for that matter the Santo Domingo governor, both of which also use "hub_spa3".

Good stuff!

The other snag is that I'd have to pick a head from one of the existing one-eyed characters, none of which have the hat. If it's a choice between losing an eye and keeping the hat, Rochefort is keeping the hat.

@Jack Rackham: Haven't you added hats to character models that didn't have them before?

Which means Rochefort is probably going to look like this:

That's DARK!

 

[Jack Rackham]

Yes but I got the head together with the hat. There are tricorns without heads possible to add.
Chevalle has got one that can be cut out.

If you check gm_crew3 that guy got a hat but as I didn't like the fat face that come with it so I put another head just a little
in front of the brown hats head.

How do you prevent the game engine from drawing its own eyes onto a model?

Are you sure this happens if you do the switch head trick?

 

[Grey Roger]

Rochefort's hat isn't a tricorn, it has one side raised, similar to the one on "will" or "spy2".

But I do know that some models with separate heads get the eyes drawn. Although I haven't been able to swap heads around myself, I did retexture "9td" using pieces of texture copied from various other models plus a custom face to produce "lizswann", which certainly gets the eyes drawn.

 

[Jack Rackham]

If you upload the model you've got and the texture file I could test if it's possible to add an
extra one-eyed head.

 

[Grey Roger]

Here you are - "rochefort.gm", "h_rochfort.gm", "bld3.tga.tx", as well as "bld3.tga" for testing purposes.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

In my one and only attempt I used Paint Shop Pro and copied and pasted parts of one model onto another model.

 

[Jack Rackham]

Try this guy. I made an animation file too if you didn't have one.

 

[Grey Roger]

Thanks! He doesn't quite match the picture posted by @Pieter Boelen but he looks suitably villainous, and has the advantage of being more distinct from the original model adapted from the CoAS prototype. I've added a scar by the patch, and now he's ready to go:


Meanwhile, the governor of Santiago now looks a bit different:

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Sounds like some good progress again!

 

[Jack Rackham]

I tried pirate9 and bocman too but this one, corsair3 fitted best and looked most evil.