Oh man. My tablet just read a 200mb project like a book. Only if I could get that 512Mb limit of android unlocked. But the interesting stuff for today is the XM8 is nearly done. Atleast to the degree I will get it to. Probably will be more barebones as a standalone pack unlike my desert eagle. But still made in a way where it’s modifiable. Since my new tablet has some gorgeous stereo audio with it’s headphone jack I’m gonna take the sound design of Project Landfall a little further putting in more stereo sound as a treat for those who have access to great sound quality.

Last tablet still works. But I’m ready for an upgrade. Here it is. 4GB of RAM. New OS, 1080p display down from the 1440p display of my old tablet, but fine by me. It’s clear enough and the display from what I see is more solid. Better CPU. 64GBs of space allowing for export of PL to be less of a pain and once again I have a working micro SD slot again!

@ralph
Hate to be that guy to ask, but I did make a submission (Project Landfall Base 2.0) which is taking quite a bit longer to release than other figures of mine that I release. I\’m just curious to know if since it is a base it is by default going to take longer to upload. If that\’s so, that\’s fine. I kinda just got a few people constantly asking me when it\’s gonna be out.

Episode 4 is gonna feature alot of units from both Thaltop and the NBC. So this next bit is gonna be a load of unit creation. I also will have to make a lot of guns. Mostly remakes.

At last.
Base is as good as I’m gonna manage. Limitations force me to keep things pretty simple on this side. But this is a hell of a lot better than the other base. Gonna post it now and get on with the things beyond this. But I actually needed this base as well for episode 4. It’s gonna be an eventfull one. I’ll try and get that runtime back up. Atleast to 25. But I still have yet to write out episode 4 so…

Male Base is pretty much done. Now to cry in a corner cause I still have to do the female one.

So I have the front view base mostly in working condition. But there’s one thing I need to address. Unlike the side view. The front few has to come in two pieces. The one piece simply just being the shape of the head and the functions. And facial hair like the side view. But the hair is going to be the second figure. I got no choice on that matter if I want it to work. The mouth is essentially invisible until it is used. But it functions better that way. Now I need to drive my mine away from the fact that I have to do the female front view head as well. But atleast then I will know what I am doing. Too many damned polyfills in order for the facial animation stuff to work. I’m starting to know why SN animators haven’t really explored manual facial animation much. On a side note. I saw this in the app and didn’t see it before. Thought it was cool that one of my figures were used as the perfect example for this.

I think I have concluded that I’m going to ignore having a relaxed visible mouth for the front view PL base. You can’t do gradients (I tried and then realized this) or else you sacrifice functionality and the ability to do good facial animation. So I think I’m just gonna end up leaving it pretty basic. As that’s the only thing that will work with vector graphics. In terms of other things I’ve been doing, I have been working a little bit on improving PLs dialogue a little bit more. @dezway suggested that the corner dialogue box thing looks like something out of a comic book in which I agree. So I fixed it up with a fade in movieclip that is half transparent to make dialogue flow more smoothly and look better while not being intrusive to the setting. In terms of text, that still pops in but it works better than before. And to me looks better. What are your thoughts?

I did some scene work today on PL, that’s it. Not much on that end. But I did find out that if I work on 3D animation, I physically and mentally cannot get myself to do stuff that is PL related in that same day. Especially when I don’t know how the hell I am going to get the front view head base to work. But, today I did do something and I figured out how blender works for the most part and made this quick animation with basic animation stuff ignoring the little things I always put into my SN animations. Sure, it’s rough, but I spent one day on it. Mostly trying to figure out how to stick the mag onto the hand until I gave up and moved the mag manually. Still got a load to mess with there. At some point I will make 3D gun models and put the detail amount inmy SN animations to shame.

Thought I would try making Bullets face with the new base to see what is probably ideal which is deleting the ears from the main head and leaving the ear nodes reserved for hair alone which is what I did here. The ears will just be an additional node on the head.

So I got the female side few head base pretty solid aside from it looking mighty anime. Something with the eyes. I mean, female one isn’t bad. The male one kinda looks stoned, but then when I was testing the eye functions for the female base it was pretty bronked. So…. Back to work….

Did some more work in terms of making this base more user friendly. Front view body pieces are 90% done. I’ve added smart stretch at this point in this work great. The arms now seem to work much better with the arms being repositioned on the torso to be farther back rather than look like they have been pushed forward. Not only that but the hand bends better at the wrist which will make it a thousand times easier to make better gripping of weaponry. The neck as said before is now bendable and attached to the head figure with reduced node count. Not gonna worry too much about node count reduction as there isn’t much more I can do there aside from gutting shape, which I will leave for people to decide as they will knkw whether the shape in a certain area will be visible. As you can see I don’t have a head for the female side view yet. Primarily cause the figure was for one, made in various stickfigure scales along with the head here being made directly for the male version. I have a plan to fix that though. I am both going to make a new base head and copy certain things from the male head. (It’s a little painful to get the head parts to actually work and I am not even on the front view yet.)

Alright. Update.
285 nodes. Working stuff (jaw, lower lip, upper lip, both eyelids are a bit rough when closing), better eye build. Goal for tomorrow is adding some gradients for depth, dealing with some optimal stuff and yeah. This stuff kinda does end up looking flat in the end but some small details can fix that.