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  4. Posted · Edited by JenzAmaka

    As usual, it is possible but normal map editing would be absolutely pain in the patootie to make it work. They would need to program a whole new code for simply editing normal maps, and creating a whole new customization tool. Currently the way game loads normal maps is the character skin and then all the clothing you wear which all of the normal data is already stored in your installed APB, but if you add normal map customization it would need to load the same way it does with Diffuse texture(the one with colors and everything) which would basically increase load time for characters almost twice.

     

    Basically they'll never do it, and also because people can make very weird designs that would make no sense.

     

    Although what they can do is specular editing, but that would allow players to make the most ridiculous designs ever like chrome people or chrome t-shirts.

     

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  5. Posted · Edited by JenzAmaka

    I see effort was put in, but can I ask few questions?

    One of the girls have white outlines, check full sample and it should fix it.

     

    Why the boat is all broken? And it's untextured? Did you use decimate on the boat?

     

    Water is quite low quality? There's plenty of tutorials how to make water look more realistic.

     

    Character specular maps are still wrong. You use Game Engine I assume? Download my internal materials(it does work on Game Engine also) and check out how I did it or use my APB Speculars, or just go to OP and check the Extra section.

     

    Also is that a motorcycle with wheels removed?

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  13. Posted · Edited by JenzAmaka

    It's happening.

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    I put a Discord where people can join and talk about the project.
    Currently hoping and waiting for LO to make Ninjaripper work again. When that happens, I'll make a new thread for the real announcement.

    Copy-pasted from the Info Channel...
     

    Previous Group Photo Project Threads
    Obeya Group Photo
     

    The Biggest APB Group Photo
     

    What is this project?
    -It's about getting about maybe 500 player characters and put them in Blender so I can pose 'em and render. I highly recommend checking out previous group photo threads.

     

    How?
    -I use Ninjaripper to rip player character models and textures so I can put them in Blender to render the scene. This is not just taking screenshot and put them in photoshop. It's way more complicated.

     

    Can I join?
    -YES! But you need to be Rank 150 or higher to join and only one character.
    If you are under 150 in rank but have amazing looking character then I can make an exception.

     

    How do I join?
    -Wait for my announcement in Discord. I will tag everyone! So when you see the [ ! ], go check out. I will ask players to join district where I will do the ripping process. After I have ripped your character, you will be accepted and don't have to do anything else.

     

    Which servers you accept?
    -Citadel and Jericho

     

    Can we request?
    -Only the weapon and skin you want in the photo. Once you have been accepted, type out the weapon name and post screenshot of the gun and its skin in the Accepted-Club channel.

    Me and my clanmates want to be together, can we be together?
    Yes, Tell me your clan name, who are the members/officer/leader and post screenshot of the clan logo in the Accepted-Club.

     

    How many people are going to be in the photo?
    -I was thinking of 500.

     

    Can I volunteer?
    -Yes you can! 2D art like banners, advertisement billboards, graffitis and etc. are always welcomed!

     

    Is this going to take 2 years?
    -No.

     

    You hate me / I hate you, can I still join?
    -Yes, I don't hate anyone and I don't mind if you hate/dislike me.

     

    Can I leave this project at any time?
    -Yes, DM me about it and I'll remove your character from the project.

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  18. Posted · Edited by JenzAmaka

    Did a render for official APB Facebook banner. This was the most difficult render I have ever done and it took over a week to finish it.
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    Behind The Scenes

     


    Originally the render was close up and was very simple.

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    I thought having a simple image was good for the banner but that wasn't the case. It wasn't flashy enough and felt too closed in. It also didn't have that much of a APB feel to it. The chaos and openness that APB provides. I knew I had to scrap it and so I tried playing around what can I do.

    This was one of the idea.
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    After that disaster it was time to restart the whole project and first concept was this.

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    I opened up the scene more and added some more chaos. This was also the time when I considered adding player characters until friend of mine told me that its better to stay with official characters. I wasn't really fan of it but I understood his reasoning and removed player characters.

    I also picked night as I thought adding flashy lights would make the scene cooler. It didn't take long that flashy lights + chaos = complete cluster fork.

    After that I spent good one day ripping/modeling the scene.

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    Added one more cop car to make the car chase scene more active.

    You probably noticed that there are no characters in the scene. That's because I need to build and place objects before posing, because otherwise I need to repose characters constantly after every small tweaks like turning car a bit.

    Day light is usually by default very boring so I went for sunset(everybody loves bit of orange/red colors)

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    I removed the exploding car as it was taking way too much attention. I also didn't like idea of people dying in promotional art stuff.

    Motion blur was also added to the scene and that itself is pretty interesting because I had to animate everything that moves.
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    I could photoshop it but it would never be accurate.

    After that it was nothing else excepting fighting Blender and tweaking small things here and there.

    Extra section
     

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    Yes, skybox is edited screenshot I took ingame.

     

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