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**Ninja Nub[NOR]** · 18th October 2014

So this is a release thread for models from the Witcher 2, and I'll release models as I do them

First up, are Temerian soldiers, weapons, and a bonus skin!

You get: Temerian Regulars, Crossbowmen, and Knights!
And all of them with beards!
The deform with flexes!!!
also lots of bodygroups and skins all that shit

Mediafire Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download/rz...W2_Soldiers.7z
Beard Fix
No steam workshop link because it can't handle the filesize

and now for the fun part, pics:

Credits to:
CD Project RED for making The Witcher 2
Bethesda for the Skyrim beards
Bohemia for the heads
Jenkins for two of the Etterick skins
and me for porting the models for source

MORE STUFF COMING SOON

**bloocobalt** · 18th October 2014

Best knights.

Excellent job, very nice work.

**-Rusty-** · 18th October 2014

Very nice. We need more medieval stuff.

danik996 · 18th October 2014

Great release, man!

Trek · 18th October 2014

Bloody amazing, here's yer' pint, ol' chap.

**Viper123_SWE** · 18th October 2014

Wooo! Knights!

**PyrO_o** · 18th October 2014

I like this knights. Really great job on this.

**Synavix** · 18th October 2014

These look beautiful, great work.

**cheesecurls** · 18th October 2014

this is the reason im holding off on mine, these are excellent.

**Ninja Nub[NOR]** · 18th October 2014

next up: king foltest

danik996 · 18th October 2014

Ninja Nub[NOR] posted:

next up: king foltest

It will be great if you also release civilian models from The Witcher 2 game

**Ninja Nub[NOR]** · 18th October 2014

maybe, getting the files out is a bit of a hassle

**theobod** · 18th October 2014

These look amazing!

KING]THT[WRATH · 18th October 2014

Hell yeah, man! Awesome work!

dib91 · 18th October 2014

Ninja Nub[NOR] could you tell me how did you get the models? because I'm looking for two but I can not find them!

**Ninja Nub[NOR]** · 18th October 2014

dib91 posted:

Ninja Nub[NOR] could you tell me how did you get the models? because I'm looking for two but I can not find them!

i just used ninja ripper

Elcard100 · 18th October 2014

Awesome work!

znalecc · 18th October 2014

mrsmith76445 · 18th October 2014

Oustanding! Thanks!

**Ninja Nub[NOR]** · 18th October 2014

znalecc posted:

i'll see about getting that fixed asap

Edited:

weird, doesn't show up like that ingame on my end
what skingroup are you on?

i mean it looks fine on my end

dib91 · 18th October 2014

if I can make a request, I need models of draug and Draugir

znalecc · 18th October 2014

Ninja Nub[NOR] posted:

what skingroup are you on?

All of them do this for me.

**Ninja Nub[NOR]** · 18th October 2014

znalecc posted:

All of them do this for me.

that's some shit, it's got no reason to not work

Ageha · 18th October 2014

Ninja Nub[NOR] posted:

that's some shit, it's got no reason to not work

It's not a major issue, I believe the issue is you just forgot to put in the "exp" VTF within the "skyrim" folder of the release, that's really what's making it do it.

**Ninja Nub[NOR]** · 18th October 2014

yeah, that makes sense, well i'll get a fix uploaded right now

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...oldiers_Fix.7z

Ageha · 18th October 2014

Ninja Nub[NOR] posted:

yeah, that makes sense, well i'll get a fix uploaded right now

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...oldiers_Fix.7z

oh, there's another one I forgot to mention, apologies -- The clotheswrp VTF is also not in the Skyrim file, which is making it have this really ugly effect. Although, I have no idea why you're using a lightwarp as it doesn't need it.

**Ninja Nub[NOR]** · 18th October 2014

already fixed that as well

Ageha · 18th October 2014

That's good! I wasn't sure or not, because I'd already manually fixed it myself and kinda didn't bother checking the download itself, so that's probably my fault there.

Anyhow, this is critique coming up, but please don't take it as a thing where it's like I'm bashing you, don't like coming across that way and don't want to seem that way. Just an FYI.

Onwards, the release is fairly solid. Not much that's too terribly bad, some rigging errors hither and thither, but nothing to fret over. However, there are a couple of things that should be addressed with the release, one of them being smoothing groups. I've noticed that you don't or seldom mess with the smoothing groups, as the sword that's in its sheathe/scabbard looks like it has its blade on one smoothing group, which makes this strange effect that looks horrible. I would really try to fix that up, because a lot of smoothing errors are about on this model, although I haven't tried decompiling and pinpointing where these errors are. Otherwise, seems fairly solid.

VMTs are what I'd suggest you'd look over again and again. The phongfresnelranges, [.5, 1, 11], isn't exactly the best. Again, this makes an extremely strange slope, as the slope comes very early as told from the Y of the Fresnel ranges. I have to keep hammering it, decimal places aren't always the best. I'd go with [5 7 8] since the slope isn't so strange and it actually keeps it reasonable and good within Source. Not only that, you also have this tendency to make it so you comment out the phongexponent. I don't know why you do this, but don't. I don't really know why you do it, but it probably either does with the phongexponenttexture or lightwarptexture and you thinking it may just dictate how it works, which isn't the truth.

The lightwarptexture is something that's very unnecessary, in my opinion. It doesn't add much and removing it doesn't do anything major. I'd suggest removing it entirely because I see no other point in having it. It's wasting stuff performance-wise and adds no benefits and unless it's a stylistic thing, like Team Fortress 2 and how it has a purple sort of shadow. So really, no benefit nor detriment from having it removed since Witcher doesn't really have a lightwarp.

And just for the sake of never having that kind of issue that'd actually be a pain, try to just have a universal folder called "shared" and stuff your phongexponent within that folder since it doesn't necessarily need to be in every folder, instead just truncate it to one universal folder that's accessible and easy to find.

Other than that, solid release! Again, I'm not just saying this to lash out at you, just wanna give honest critique without another argument that would make us both look stupid.