[FF7PC] Red Werewolf

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You'd actually be surprised how high you can go with this game, I've imported models with about 30k. I wouldn't go much higher though, you may also have problems with kimera crashing. There's work arounds if that's the case, plus zbrush makes adjusting the polycount pretty easy with ZRemesher. When you're ready just cut the model in half and import the piece for the head. If it loads properly with the diffuse texture (cant use anything else unfortunately, no normal maps) and kimera doesn't crash when you move the piece you're good to go.
 
I think 15K to 25K is more than enough. You won't see much details anyway thanks to the low FPS in battle and on field is the camera most times to far away.
 
So... After 7 hrs of building learning and understanding here is what I have so far. It's not much but hey it's my first time ever.
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Lovely play doh!!! I wanna squeeze it! :P :P

Seriously! Great detailed model!
 
I think the colorizing and texturing is going to be the most fun but the biggest challenge.
 
Very impressive you're picking up zbrush very quickly. Particularly the ears, ears and hands take awhile to get used to. The trick will be maintaining your detail while keeping a low polycount. Unfortunately you cant save a low poly version first and use baked textures (only diffuse with FF7). I'd say go for broke and go nuts with the sculpting tools, see just how detailed you can get while learning the tools suite. Some of it will be lost when you lower the divisions, but that way you also have a high poly version for renderings and stuff.
 
New day. Getting the muscles and starting on veins and cheek fur. This is a blast. I feel like a kid in a candy store.
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Soo who's gonna help me with the animation side when I get the model done? Lol
 
Looking good. Looking forward to seeing how you sculpt the fur. Here's a quick idea of what adjusting the animations would be like. I literally just rotated the bones on the X axis. You can also propagate the frame (as you can only edit the bones this way on the animation, not the actual model) so you only need to edit it once, at least for the most part. I'm not very good at editing FF7 animations though. A few other members seem pretty good at it though. For the most part it's actually pretty do-able. If you want him to still run on all fours than even easier, as most of his animations wouldn't need any changes. I'd say in the end it's just a matter of time than difficulty.   

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I made an alpha in Photoshop for the body fur that I'm going to use. The torso will be skin. Will I use zBrush to cut him into in the head body arms and legs?
 
I'm going with a SS3 Goku style hair for the mane
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I noticed, looks pretty cool. An alpha map? That's fine for now, and for any renders you'd like to use, but for actually importing into FF7 you need a completed mesh (no Ngons if you can manage it) and diffuse textures. Your best bet is to sculpt detail into the model as much as you can, and add anything extra in Photoshop later.

Cutting the model maybe difficult in zbrush, but if you're familiar enough with it it could work fine. I personally use either blender or maya for cutting and filling holes, but zbrush may make it easier to round out the holes you fill and repaint the new faces. That'll seem a lot easier once you've finished the model.
 
So last night I found an obj of goku. I was going to cut his hair off and merge it to Red. Simple? No. Nightmare. So I'm going to watch some tutorials and hopefully post some progress tonight. Ugh!!
 
I personally have no problem with that, but that'll break Qhimm's policy on ripped material. To publicly release the completed model here it'll need to be 100% yours. Plus cutting the hair off Goku will be a mess and wont port to Red XIII very well. With some practice you'll be able to sculpt much more detailed hair in zbrush anyway. A common mistake in zbrush with hair is people start sculpting it attached to the head, as one piece. It'll be much easier if you break things like this up and make them separately. Essentially making the hair more like a wig, and the character bald lol.
 
Oh. I am sorry. Even though I purchased the model? Wouldn't that give me full rights to it? If that's still against the rules I'm all about respect. Just curious. And I've already began remolding the hair from scratch.
 
You never purchase a model, only very limited rights to use a copy of it.
 
Oh. Ok. Sorry I thought it was like purchasing images to use for design. My fault. I will build the hair from scratch. :)
 
It depends on where you purchased it. Some folk only allow their models to be used in pre-rendered images (including movies), or will charge more for distributing the model itself in any forum (such as including it in a game's data). They also tend to have different terms as far as using just pieces of the model.

When buying this stuff, it's always a good idea to look at the terms on the purchase agreement.

edit: That said, if you have redistribution rights for a model, it's fully allowed here.
 
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