New Gas Bag underway!

Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:22 am

I must start my low poly over but before doing so, I am going to go back and sculpt in the fifth eye on the top of the head and before doing that, I have a few questions. While playing some Monster Mash the other day, I noticed two things I want to run by everyone and get their opinion. I saw a red mark on the hands of the Gasbag, what is it and what is its purpose? My second question is, has anybody else noticed the child Gasbags that circle the parent gasbag? I was playing and saw several seemingly baby gasbags circling a normal gasbag and when I killed a child, the parent still lived but when I killed the parent, the child or children died. I need to verify this so please check it out and let me know what you find out because if it is indeed the case, I need to model a "baby" gasbag and give it "baby" characteristics and somehow animate the parent to... I don't know... give birth? A nasty thought but maybe it could belch the babies instead? Throw some ideas my way, I could use the help.

Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:46 am

The only gasbags in the Mash are actually the giant gasbags from Unreal rather than the normal ones, and have always spawned children in between chucking fireballs at you. They just use the same belch animation to spawn them:

I'm sure you could improve on it. I think the 'mini' ones in MM are different to the normal gasbags, so you'll probably need to look at the original one too, if you can. I'm pretty sure the red marks are just to make them look more interesting.

Kyomaa wrote:Gas Bag that spit out Titan Rocks?

It's been done before!

Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:15 pm

Cool, thanks for confirming the babies and especially thanks for the pic! So, they belch them? I think I could work that out somehow. Maybe have it vomit a baby... How cute. It's so adorable!

Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:48 pm

Okay, the fifth eye has been added. Kinda small but the original was small also. I gave it the same slight tear shape. I also added some ridges around the eyes because I kinda notice almost a lid on the original gasbag. I'm not going to worry about the babies right now because we can always add it later.

It is a bit hard to see the fifth eye but once a texture is added, it will be.

Here we go with this low poly again... Yay! ... Sarcasm...

Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:59 pm

lol awesome work savage =D kinda liked shards idea of different types of gas bags that would be cool.

:queen:

Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:13 pm

Well for now I have decided to just finish the main Gasbag but I can always add more later. I want to get some cool monsters out their for UT3 because the ones out now kinda suck with the exception of just a couple. I want to bring some familiar monsters to the UT3 arena like the titan, queen, brute, and of coarse the gasbag... Oh, and lets not forget the baby metroids. Somebody is already working on skaarj as a playable character. I also want to make my zombies at a much later date for a totally different project but for now I am committed to Monster Mash 3! It is going to be awesome!

Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:51 am

I have been playing MM3 quite a bit lately, probably a little too much. I need to get back to my low-poly gasbag but I just needed to take a little break. Anyways, I was playing today and actually got a good amount of people together and it was a blast. It would be even better if we had some more players so I want to throw a proposal out there for everyone. Fry and I have discuss an MM3 day once a month, I think it will get peoples attention to play our server and make it a lot more fun for all of us as well. I have talked to several people and they said they would play more often if their was more people on the server. I agree. So, what do you think?

Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:20 am

Coming to a theater near you, the gasbag as... the phantom of the opera!

Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:38 am

Now we're getting somewhere. Should be smooth sailing now that I worked out the bugs both in Blender and in my head. As long as I don't get snagged up on something again, I should have the low-poly finished in the next couple of days and be showing you videos instead of pictures of an animated gasbag by next weekend!

Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:21 pm

I have decided to put a hold on the gasbag but just for a few days. Unfortunately the laptop I am using to model it is not up to the challenge. I have 8 multires on my high poly sculpted model and on the top two multires, my laptop lags something awful, screwing up my model and making it impossible to add the small details that I want like leathery skin and fine wrinkles or creases in the skin and smaller veins protruding in the back of the head. I ordered a new computer that I am told has more than enough power to handle my modeling and then some. It should arrive shortly and I'll be able to continue my models and it will also make things much faster, speeding up my productivity immensely. I'll be starting a new Brute once I finish the gasbag and may start a titan as well. I haven't really decided yet. I know I want to add more familiar creatures to those accustomed to MM1 and MM2. I have actually started something very special for MM3 that is brand new and I am super excited about it but I will not reveal what it is until I know for sure it can be done but I'm confident that it is possible or I wouldn't be attempting it. As usual, I'll update my progress here. Thanks for your patience and happy fragging!