Discussion and input has been hit or miss on this thread. Constructive is great and helpful, particularly if you can provide detailed or technical input. Just saying someone's work is amateur-ish isn't necessary or helpful (which btw...that's all of modding. Professional work will generally cost you).
You hit the nail on the head with this one. Instead of making judgements, people need to contribute suggestions.
I think this mod would be awesome, and what you have done with both of your models is really sweet.
IMO, this image just needs a little bit of color correction. I do agree with the need to lower the poly count, but only in certain places in the image that seem 'too' detailed, if that makes sense. As far as the color -- if you put a 'muted' version of yellow or blue where the two tones meet, your blending will be smoother and it will make your coloring a bit less jarring. How to do this is odd, because of the color in this image. To mute out a color (towards grey/black) you add the complimentary opposite color on the standard color wheel (and maybe some white). This is hardly obvious and because these colors are ALREADY the opposite of each other, it's tricky. Also, you have a very bright yellow that contrasts a lot where there are highlights. In my experience, if you mute the highlights, you will have just as much of a drastic result without the outline seeming 'out of place'. Also, I'm not sure if you can do this, but if you change the blue by less than 10% where it meets the yellow (darker OR lighter, whatever floats your boat), you might also get some good results.
That's how you help out a modder.
On that note... I hope that helps... lol.
Pardon me? Now it's the peoples fault, who DARE to criticize anyone, that no more new mods are being released? What kind of a messed up conclusion is that even? Are you even serious?
Now people are not even able to constructively criticize, even when it`s appropriate? Did you consider my post as particularly rude, or what? Because it didn't look like that to me. I'm not even that kind of person that criticizes in an offensive and disrespective way, but I've seen people like that here, too. I caution you to not throw me in the same bag...
You know what, to me it seems distressing forum-moderators are the thing, that scare most people away from these forums...
Maybe the moderators are the ones you scare YOU away, but your critique offered VERY little help -if any- and labeled the work 'amateurish' as a description of it's flaw. That would scare any moderately insecure artist away. Esp considering we ALL have a level of insecurity about our work - be it the level of quality, the expression itself, or the flaws we notice later. You are way too defensive about someone telling you that you need to provide more feedback than a passive aggressive jab, and I think that you should analyze your own methods of communication first and foremost if that impression wasn't your intent.
Not jumping down your throat here, dude... just trying to give you some perspective from this side of the fence. (artist, not moderator)
